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reduced; firmly herbaceous or sub-coriaceous, light green or 
glaucous, with a short stipe. Stipe and rachis naked, black, 
and polished, not edged with green. Pinnae sessile, and con- 
nected only by the mid-rib ; ovate or oblong ; two to three 
lines broad, one-quarter to one inch long, finely serrate ; 
rounded at the point, often cordate at the base, or auricled 
on the upper side; the auricle overlapping the stipe. Upper 
pinnae more widely adnate, decurrent on the lower side; pinnae 
where not auricled nearly equal-sided, with the mid-rib near 
the centre. Veins pinnate, forked. Sori six to twenty to a 
pinna, in two lines, short, oblique. 
When young or small hardly distinguishable from A. 
trichomanes, but when both are mature and strong they are 
quite distinct. 
A. ftlatyneuron (Linn.) Oakes. Eat. Ferns N. Ainer. 1, 24, 1878 ; 
C. Chr. Ind. 126. 
A. ebeneum. Ait. Hort. Kew. III. 462; Kze, Linnaea , 13; Pappe and 
Rawson, 19 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 101 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 198 ; 
Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 134. 
America and South Africa. In South Africa generally 
over 2000 feet alt.; growing on steep rocky banks, under 
small bush. 
East. — Krakakamma (Eck.); Grahamstown (Holland); Oudeberg, 
4800 feet (Bolus, 1697) ; Boschberg (MacOwan) ; Van Staadens 
(Mrs T. V. Patterson, 2002). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Buchanan) ; Bazija (Baur) ; Komgha (Flanagan) ; 
Perie, Greytown, Toise River, Thomas Mountain. 
Natal. — Mooi River, Riet Vlei, Nottingham, Umkomas (Buchanan); 
Zwaartkop, Karkloof, Bulwer (T. R. Sim). 
58. Asplenium monanthes Linn. 
Plate 46. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Crown sub-erect, tufted, paleaceous. Frond simply pin- 
nate, firmly herbaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, one to two feet 
long, one-half to one and a half inches broad, with a brown 
polished rachis, on a similar naked black stipe, three to nine 
inches long; rachis not margined with green. Pinnae numerous, 
