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a stipe nine inches long. Pinnae three to four inches long, 
one and a half to two inches broad, pointed, or sometimes 
with an attenuated point, and about four pairs of pinnules, 
also pointed more or less ; the lower ones larger, and cut 
nearly to the mid-rib into roundly cuneate lobes. The 
texture is less leathery than in the type, and occasionally 
it has a few scattered ovate scales on the stipe and rachis. 
This form is everywhere in the forest, and cannot be regarded 
as other than a conditional form. 
A. splendens. Kze, Linnaea , io, 516; Pappe and Rawson, 21; Moore’s 
Index , 169; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 17 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil ., ed. 2, 
487; Sim, Ferns of South Africa , 1st ed., 19 1 ; C. Chr. Index , 133. 
A. splendens Kze, var. elongatum. Kze, Linn . 10, 516. 
East. — Krakakamma (E. and Z.) ; Grahamstown (Holland). 
Kaff. — Kat River (E. and Z.); Komgha (Flanagan); Pondoland 
(Drege) ; St John’s River (Sir H. Barkly) ; abundant in Perie, 
Frankfort, Stutterheim, Toise River, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Not distinguished from A. cuneatum by Natal botanists, but 
present in all forests; Nkandhla (Marriott); Highlands (R. Schl. 
6843). 
Transvaal. — Woodbush (T. J. Jenkins, 798); Pilgrim’s Rest (L. Collins, 
905). 
Var. 7. ANGUSTATUM Sim (in Ferns of South Africa , 
1st ed., 152). 
Plate 63. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 
Frond proportionally narrower and less cut than in A. 
cuneatum , coriaceous, glabrous, two to two and a half inches 
broad, twelve to fifteen inches long, including a stipe of six 
inches. Pinnae about eight sub-opposite pairs, of which the 
upper are cuneate or cuneate three-lobed ; lower stalked, 
deltoid, pinnatifid into about three cuneate pinnules, of 
which the terminal is longest, lobed, and pointed, and the 
others rounded. Outer edges all crenate-serrate ; cuneate 
sides entire. Rachis more or less paleaceous, with dark, 
lanceolate, hard, deciduous scales. Frond without scales 
except on the short petioles. Sori half-inch long, three to 
six in a pinnule, and like the conspicuous veins, flabellate. 
This approaches the smaller woolly form of A. pracmorsum 
Sw. in general outline, but is less cut, less pointed, and 
