DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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Var. 7. ERECT UM (Bory). 
Plate 48. Nat. size. Plate 47. c Pinna. 
Pinnae pointed, deeply toothed on both upper and lower 
edges, except a little bit which is cut away on the lower side 
toward the base ; the corresponding upper side enlarged, or 
sometimes with a distinct, toothed auricle. Frond two to 
three feet long, proliferous. Pinnae one inch long, three- 
eighths to one-half inch broad. Teeth mostly single. A 
frond from Brown’s Bush, Toise River, has a bud on the 
stipe at the lowest pinnule, but this is not usual, the bud 
being usually near the point of the frond. 
A. erectum Bory. Schl. Adum. 28, tab. 15; Kze, Linnaea , 10, 513; 
Pappe and Rawson, 18; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 102. 
A. harpeodes. Kze, Linn. 18, 329; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 202 ; Wood, 
Natal Ferns , 20. 
A. erectum Bory, var. harpeodes Kze. Buchanan, No. 57. 
A. erectum Bory, var. erectum. Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 138. 
The most common form. 
West. — Table Mountain (Rawson); George (R. Schl. 2365); Knysna 
(T. H. Rex, 832). 
East. — Grahamstown (Holland); Bedford (Miss Cook); Kraka- 
kamma. 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan); Main (Mrs Young); frequent throughout 
the forest districts. 
Natal. — Upper parts of colony common (T. R. Sim); Buccleuch 
(Leighton); Lidgetton (A. Roberts). 
Transvaal.— Macamac (McLea, 12); Haenertsberg (Eastwood; Mrs 
Pott, 4676) ; Barberton (Miss Williams); Houtboschberg (W. Nelson, 
482). 
Orange Free State. — Near Van Reenen (Prof. Bews). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (Mrs Bennett). 
Var. 8 . Zeyheri (P. and R.). 
Plate 49. c Pinna, nat. size. 
Pinnae more obtuse than var. erectum, and less cutaway 
at the lower base, but each blunt tooth cut near to the rachis, 
and the lower ones enlarged into rounded toothed lobes, cut 
to or near to the rachis; evidently intermediate between 
forms erectum and gracile. Frond eighteen inches long, and 
two inches broad. 
s. f. s. A. 
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