DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 149 
not reaching the sinus of the lobes, and with one or two 
obliquely at the base of the lowest lobe. 
A. Gueinzianum Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 103 (with description); Hk. 
and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 486; C. Chr. Ind. 114; Sim, Ferns of South 
Africa , 1st ed., 140. 
Lady Barkly adds “originally called A. laciniatum by 
Kuhn.” 
Natal. — (Gueinzius). Not seen by me, and not in Kew Herbarium. 
64. Asplenium protensum Schrad. 
Plate 51. Much reduced, b Pinna, nat. size. 
Rhizome procumbent, short, naked, with the bases of the 
old stipes permanent, and thickened. Frond firmly herba- 
ceous, pinnate or two-pin natifid, lanceolate, tapering both 
ways, two to five feet long, two to four inches broad, with 
a channelled, pubescent rachis, and short pubescent stipe, 
sometimes glabrous when old. Pinnae thirty to forty sub- 
opposite spreading pairs, nearly sessile, one to one and a 
half inches long, half an inch broad at the base, and tapering 
to a longish point; often falcate, cut on both edges halfway to 
the mid-rib into blunt lobes of about two teeth each. The 
pinnae are unequal sided, the lowest two lobes on the lower 
side being wanting. Sori oblong, in two rows near the 
rachis, somewhat oblique, one on the principal vein of each 
lobe, and directed toward it. This fine fern is easily dis- 
tinguished from all its relations by having the rachis covered 
with fine glandular hairs, which sometimes extend partly on 
to the pinnae. It resembles large specimens of A. erectum, 
having the same herbaceous texture, and long narrow outline ; 
and like it often produces a bud near the point of the frond. 
A. protensum. Schrad. Gott. Gel. Anz. 1818 ; Schl. Adum. 29, tab. 16; 
Kze, Linnaea , 10, 5 13 ; Pappe and Rawson, 18 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 13 ; 
Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 21 1 ; Sim, Ferns of South Africa , 1st ed., 
141 ; C. Chr. Ind. 127. 
Africa and African Islands ; growing in wet places in 
deep shade ; frequent. 
West.— Knysna (Verreaux). 
East. — Grahamstown (Holland) ; Boschberg (MacOwan). 
