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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
widest at the base, and with three to five pairs of alternate 
linear or forked pinnules, one line broad, half inch long, each 
bearing a nearly terminal sorus, surmounted on the lower side 
by a rounded wing of lamina. Involucre shortly cup-shaped, 
as wide as the pinnule. Sometimes the habit is closer than 
figured, and the pinnules only half a line broad and sur- 
mounted — candelabra fashion — by the wider saucer-shaped 
involucres. 
Asplenium theciferum (H. B. K.). Mett. Atm. Sc. Nat. 5, 2, 227, 
1864; C. Chr. Ind. 135. 
Davallia co?icinna Schrad. Kze, Linnaea , 13, 152; Schl. Adum. 55; 
Pappe and Rawson, 25 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fit. ed. 1, 100 ; Sim, 
Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 65. 
Davallia thecifera H. B. K. Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. ed. 2, 100. 
Davallia campyloptera. Kunze, Linnaea , 10, 544; Suppl. to Schk. 
■Fil. t. 75. 
Davallia S chimp eri. Hk. Sp. 1, 193. 
Asplenium concinnum. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 99. 
Asplenium theciferwn Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 117. 
Loxoscaphe concinnum and theciferwn Moore. 
South America, Africa, and African Islands. 
This is very like Asplenium bipinnatum in habit, habitat, 
cutting, and texture, and probably often passed as such, but 
the involucre here is almost terminal and compressed cup- 
shaped, while in A. bipinnatum it opens along the side of the 
pinnule as a marginal slit, and is longer than deep. 
Epiphytal on trees, mostly inland. 
West. — Knysna (Lady Barkly); Plettenberg’s Bay (P. and R.); George, 
Klein-Bosch River (Drege). 
East. — Brookhuizen’s Poort, and Blockhouse Kloof (Dr Atherstone) ; 
Zwaart-hoogdens, near Grahamstown (MacOwan) ; Riversdale (R. 
Schl. 1801). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Miss Hartzenberg) ; Fort Beaufort (Holland); Main, 
Transkei (Mrs Young); Toise River, and rare in Evelyn Valley, 
Perie (T. R. Sim); Port St John’s (Flanagan, 2468). 
Natal. — Umpumulo, Karkloof (Buchanan); Maritzburg, Richmond, 
Nottingham, Cathkin (McKen); Van Reenen (R. Schl. 1004). 
Transvaal. — Houtbosch (Dr Rehmann, 5606; R. Schl. 4700); Belfast 
(R. Leendertz, 2786). 
Rhodesia. — Gwaai River (J. Sim). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Moramballa (Kirk). 
