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herbaceous, and pubescent on both surfaces with white hairs. 
Stipe one to two inches long, green, soft, set with numerous 
soft hairs. Rachis not winged; upper portion of frond pinna- 
tifid, with rounded, crenate, decurrent lobes, below which are 
one or two opposite pairs of shortly stalked, lobed pinnae, 
and the deltoid lowest pair of pinnae which are one inch long, 
half inch wide and cut once nearly to the mid-rib. Veins 
flabellate. Sori abundant, oblique, one to two lines long, 
with narrow membranous indusium. 
Rhodesia. — Ironmask Hill, Mazoe, 4500 ft. Jan. 1909, Eric Eyles 
(Herb. Eyles, 564). 
Unlike any other fern known to me. 
62. ASPLENIUM PUM 1 LUM Sw. 
Baker’s description in Synopsis Filicum is : 
“ Stem tufted, 3 — 4 in. long, erect, naked, polished, ebeneous below ; 
frond 4 to 6 in. each way, deltoid, the upper part sinuated only, the lower 
cut down to the rachis into distinct pinnae, of which the lowest pair is 
much the largest, the pinnules on the lower side sometimes 2 in. long, 
reaching down to a slightly winged rachis, acuminate and deeply lobed ; 
texture herbaceous ; rachis green, flaccid, compressed ; sori very oblique, 
the lower ones sometimes f to 1 inch long. Hk. Sp. 3, p. 174. 
Hab. W. Indies to Columbia; and a small tender form ( A . tenerrimum 
Hochst) has been gathered by Schimper in Abyssinia, and by Dr Kirk 
in Zambesiland. A very distinct species.” 
This is unknown to me. 
63. Asplenium Gueinzianum Mett. 
Frond firmly herbaceous, glabrous, nine inches long, one 
and a half inches broad, with a short green stipe which has 
a few ovate, membranaceous scales. Pinnae numerous, de- 
current into a petiole, rhomboid-oblong, rounded or auricled 
on the upper side at the base ; cut away on the lower side ; 
three-quarters of an inch long, lower rather less, cut to a 
broadly winged mid-rib into two to three pairs of lobes or 
pinnules, of which the lower one on the upper side is separate, 
roundly obovate from a cuneate base, and two to three times 
bifid ; lobes sub-flabellate, spreading, obtuse, often bifid ; upper 
undivided. Sori one to two, sub-parallel with the mid-rib, 
