DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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A. furcation Thb., var. tripinnatifidum. Sim, Kaff. Ferns , 45. 
A. laserpitiifolium. Me Ken, Natal Ferns , No. 59. 
A. furcatu?n. P. and R. 20. 
Localities have not formerly been recorded for this as 
separate from A. fnreatum, but it is the more common form, 
and possibly some quoted for the species belong to this 
variety. 
West. — Knysna (T. H. Rex, 829). 
East. — Grahamstown (Dr Atherstone); Boschberg (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan) ; Main (Mrs Young), and through all the 
Amatolla Forests (T. R. Sim) ; Katberg (F. A. Rogers, 3881). 
Natal. — Noodsberg (Wood); Van Reenen’s Pass, Drakensberg (Dr 
Rehmann, 7217) ; Nottingham (Buchanan) ; Peel’s on the Umlaas 
(McKen); Highlands (R. Schl. 6843). 
Transvaal. — Barberton Mts (Burtt-Davy, 330; and J. Thorncroft, 97); 
Mamotsinri and Marovuni (Burtt-Davy, 208, 216); Modderpoort 
(F. A. Rogers, 91); Houtboschberg (J. Nelson, 462); Woodbush 
(Mrs Pott, 4663). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (J. F. Darling, Mrs Bennett); Mt Pene, 7000ft 
(Swyn. 846, 6027). 
(Asplenium BULBIFERUM Forst. 
This well-known fern is credited in Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil 
to Natal, but Buchanan thinks it is a mistake, while Kuhn, 
McKen, and Wood all omit it. There are no specimens in 
the South African herbaria, and it seems likely that the 
locality is a mistake, though not deleted in the second edition 
of Syn. Fil. nor in the more recent revision in Annals of 
Botany. Christensen does not credit it to Africa.) 
77. Asplenium abyssinicum Fee. 
Plate 70. Nat. size, b, c Pinnules, enlarged. 
Frond eighteen inches long, six inches broad at the middle, 
rather less below, tapering to a fine point, and having a naked 
stipe of six inches. Pinnae about twenty pairs, alternate, or 
the lower sub-opposite, spreading; those on one side an inch 
apart at the middle ; the lower more distant and reduced ; 
the upper much closer and gradually smaller. Mid-pinnae 
lanceolate, three inches long, three-quarter inch broad at the 
base, sessile, with a slender rachis, and ten to twelve pairs of 
alternate, deltoid, shortly stalked pinnules, half inch long, 
