DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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This appears from specimens in Cape Town and Grahams- 
town Herbaria to be Aspl. discolor P. and R. 17, where, 
however, A. lucidum , Schl. Adum. tab. 14, fig. 6, is quoted, 
which is our var .flexuosum] while A. flexuosum Schr. is placed 
among the unknown species in the appendix. Wood’s var. 
flexuosum is allied, and A. gemmiferum Schr., var. laciniatmn 
Mett. is made by Kuhn to include both this and var. flexuosum. 
West. — Knysna (Miss Dalgairns) ; Seven Oaks (Holland). 
East. — Grahamstown (Atherstone); Brookhuizen’s Poort (MacOwan); 
Kat River (E. and Z.). 
Kaffi— Katberg. 
Natal. — Seven-mile Bush, Upper Umkomaas, 4000 feet, and Inanda 
(Wood). 
72. Asplenium Rawsoni Baker. 
Plate 63. Nat. size. 
Crown tufted, slightly paleaceous. Frond deltoid, glabrous, 
simply pinnate, two-pinnatifid or two-pinnate, three inches 
long, one and a half inches broad, with a slender green chan- 
nelled stipe three inches long, paleaceous only at the base, 
with small brown scales. Pinnae about four sub-opposite 
pairs ; upper pinnae nearly round or slightly cuneate, shortly 
stalked, three to five lines long and broad, thinly coriaceous, 
crenate at the outer rounded margin ; lower pair of pinnae 
larger, more or less lobed, or cut nearly or quite to the mid- 
rib into round lobes. Sori short, occupying the centre of the 
pinnule, and leaving a wide space outside. Veins distinctly 
flabellate. 
This is named A. ruta-muraria Linn, in Pappe and 
Rawson’s Synopsis , but the specimens I have seen are quite 
distinct from this species, and also from A. cuneatum Lam. 
which it approaches. 
A. Rawsoni. Baker, Journ. Bot. 1872, p. 362; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 487; Lady Barkly’s List, No. 76; Sim, Ferns of South Africa , 
1st ed. 147 ; not maintained in C. Chr. Ind. 128 but this is probably 
a printer’s error as A. ruta-muraria P. and R. is referred to it, p. 130. 
A. ruta-muraria. Pappe and Rawson, quoted by Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 
1 15 (not A. ruta- 7 nuraria L.). 
Top of Muizenberg Mountains, in crevices of rocks (Hon. 
R. W. Rawson, 1857). 
