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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
East. — Uitenhage (Krauss); Algoa Bay (Forbes); Bedford (Miss 
Cook); Krakakamma, Zwaartkop, Frames Drift, Port Elizabeth 
(Mrs T. V. Patterson, 2029). 
Kaff. — Dohne Hill, Tamacha, Bollasi, etc. (T. R. Sim); Main (Mrs 
Young); Cala (Royffe, 197). 
Natal.— Plentiful in upper districts; Maritzburg and Umpumulo to 
Drakensberg (T. R. Sim); Howick (R. Schl. 6787) ; Buccleuch 
(W. Leighton). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Sanderson) ; Fairy Glen (R. Leendertz, 
1616); Mamotsinri (Burtt-Davy, 21 1); Crocodile and Magalies 
Rivers (Burtt-Davy, 199); Haenertsberg (Eastwood); Woodbush 
(W. Nelson, 468); Rietfontein (R. Leendertz, 874); Ermelo (R. 
Leendertz, 2958) ; Rosehaugh (J. M. Sim). 
Rhodesia. — Salisbury (J. F. Darling) ; Borrowdale (H. M. Hole) ; 
Umtali (Holland, Mrs Bennett); Mazoe, 4500 ft (Eyles, 338, 477); 
Bulawayo (Eyles and Johnson, 1022); Matopo Hills (Miss Gibbs); 
Victoria Falls (Garbutt, J. Sim); Chirinda Forest, 4000 ft (Swyn. 
845); Chimanimani Mts, 7000 ft (Swyn. 846 a); Melsetter, 6000 ft 
(Swyn. 808) ; Mt Pene, 7000 ft (Swyn. 6026). 
Var. / 3 . TRIPINNATUM. 
' Plate 66. Nat. size. 
Larger and more cut throughout than the type, also less 
coriaceous, and less paleaceous. Frond five to nine inches 
broad, one and a half to two and a half feet long, with a 
stipe six to nine inches long, three-pinnatifid. Pinnae shortly 
stalked, deltoid, one and a half inches broad, three to four 
inches long, with woolly scales on the lower side only. Pin- 
nules distinct, deltoid, shortly stalked, pinnately cut to the 
mid-rib into five to seven cuneate, or flabellate, three-lobed, 
toothed pinnules. The stipe and rachis are abundantly fibril- 
lose, and the channelled, slightly margined, rachises of the 
pinnae, and the under side of the pinnae, are also more or less 
fibrillose, but the upper surface is generally almost naked 
and shining. In deep shade it is sometimes nearly destitute of 
scales throughout, and quite herbaceous in texture ; but is then 
easily distinguished from A. cuneatum by its more numerous 
and proportionally shorter pinnae, and also by the lower pinnae 
being rather less than those at the middle of the frond. 
A. furcatum Thunb., var. tripinnatum. Bkr, Syn. Fil. 487 ; Wood, 
Ferns of Natal, 23; Sim, Ferns of S. Africa, 1st ed., 154. 
