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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
almost sessile, quite close above, larger and more distant 
downward, except the lowest few, which are shorter, and a 
half to one inch apart. Pinnae rhomboidal, connected at the 
lower corner; lower edge entire and straight, at a right angle 
to the rachis, one-half to three-quarter inch long, inner edge 
entire, nearly parallel with the rachis, two to three lines long; 
upper and outer edges serrate, meeting in a blunt point. 
Lower pinnae somewhat auricled on the upper side ; lowest 
few flabellate and smaller. Sori usually only one, linear, 
parallel with the lower edge, and near it, but opening upward; 
but frequently with other two or three shorter ones set 
obliquely across the pinna in addition. The frond is not 
proliferous at the apex, but on the stipe below the pinnae 
an adventitious bud is often to be found. 
A. monanthes Linn. Mant. 130, 1767; C. Chr. Ind. 121. 
A. monanthemum. Murr. 1784; Schl. Adum. 27; Kze, Linn. 10, 515 ; 
Pappe and Rawson, 19; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 107; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 197 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Africa , 1st ed. 135. 
South America, Hawaii, Africa, and Canary Islands ; 
not uncommon ; growing in shady places by streams in 
bush. Some specimens from Perie forest show upper pinnae 
dareoid. 
West. — Rondebosch and Kerstenbosch (Bergius) ; Table Mountain, 
Grootvadersbosch (Ecklon) ; Paarde Kraal, Knysna (Burchell, 
5 I 99 )- 
East. — Kat River (Eck.) ; Grahamstown (MacOwan) ; Boschberg 
(Bolus, 1701) ; Bedford (Miss Cook). 
Kaff. — Engcoba (A. G. McLoughlin, 99) ; Cala (Royffe, 240) ; Molteno, 
6300 ft (Flanagan, 1678) ; frequent along the forest range; Chumie, 
Perie, Frankfort, Stutterheim, Toise River, etc., and Main, Transkei 
(Mrs Young). 
Natal. — From Maritzburg to Drakensberg, 3000 to 5000 feet (Buchanan, 
Wood) ; Zwaartkop, Karkloof, Bulwer, Umkomaas, etc. (T. R. Sim) ; 
Lidgetton (A. Roberts, 1909). 
Orange Free State. — Near Van Reenen (Prof. Bews). 
Transvaal. — Haenertsberg (Miss Eastwood, 135); Mount West, 5200 ft 
(R. Schlechter, 6821); Rustenburg (M. Collins, 1909); Pilgrim’s 
Rest (L. Collins, 1911); Barberton (Miss Williams, 1909) ; Riet- 
fontein (R. Leendertz, 1905); Woodbush (T. J. Jenkins, 924); 
Lydenburg and Belfast (Miss Doidge). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali, not common (Mrs Bennett). 
