DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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75. Asplenium cuneatum Lam. 
Plate 64. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Rhizome subterranean, slender, creeping, paleaceous. 
Fronds deltoid, glabrous, sub-coriaceous, two-pinnate, four 
to eight inches long, three to four inches broad, on a wiry, 
green or brown stipe, six inches long, scaly below only. 
Pinnae shortly stalked, deltoid, blunt, with four to six obtuse, 
rounded or lobed, distinct pinnules, which are cuneate at the 
base, and sharply serrate round the outer edge. Lower pinnae 
generally not longer than those above them. Sori numerous, 
flabellate, mostly short, often absent from the lower pinnae. 
Veins very numerous, conspicuous. 
A. cu 7 ieatum. Lam. Enc. 2, 309, 1786; Pappe and Rawson, 20; 
Kunze, Linnaea , 10, 516; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 100; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 214 ; Sim, Ferns of South Africa , 1st ed., 151 ; C. Chr. Index , 107. 
A. multiforme Krasser. (Plantae Pentherianae, Ann. des K. wid K. 
Nat. Hof. 15, 1, Vienna 1900, from Griqualand East.) 
Central America, Polynesia, South Africa, and African 
Islands. This form, which is not so common as var. splendens , 
grows on rocks away from the present forest range, but which 
most likely had been under forest at some previous time. 
Grown on walls it becomes small and dwarfed, and might 
be mistaken for being specifically distinct. 
East. — Somerset East (MacOwan) ; Grahamstown (Dr Atherstone) ; 
Sidbury (Miss M. Daly, 779). 
Kaff. — Izeli, and near Peddie (T. R. Sim); Kei Road (Rev. F. A. 
Rogers, 3220) ; Main (Mrs Young). 
Natal. — Nearly everywhere in bush from Palmiet to Nottingham 
(Buchanan, Wood; but both include var. sflende 7 is here); Nkandhla 
(Marriott); Wellington, Rosetta, Besters, Umzimkulu, Zwaartkop, 
etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Orange Free State. — Tweespruit (Marriott); Van Reenen Kloofs 
(Prof. Bews). 
Transvaal. — Marovuni (Burtt-Davy, 217, 239); Barberton (L. C. de 
Beer, 127) ; Belfast, 1909 (R. Leendertz, 2783) ; Lydenburg (J. 
Pienaar) ; Haenertsberg (Mrs Pott, 4657). 
Var. /3. SPLENDENS (Kze). 
Plate 64. Fig. 2. Pinna, nat. size. 
Larger in all its parts than the type. Fronds three- 
pinnatifid, often two feet long, nine inches broad, and with 
s. f. ,s. A. 
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