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below the pinnae, which begin one inch above the crown, but 
that portion is covered with long, narrow, brown scales. Pinnae 
blunt or slightly pointed, suddenly widened at the base on 
the upper side, connected with the rachis along the whole 
base. Texture leathery. Fertile frond about six inches long, 
and one inch broad; pinnae very close, comparatively broad, 
and more or less infolded. Indusium very broad, afterwards 
torn. The barren fronds are not unlike those of B. attenuatum 
on a small scale, but the fertile fronds are very different. 
This species has caused much confusion. Lady Barkly 
mentions the name as a synonym for L. punctulata , with 
which it has no connection, but introduces into her list the 
name L. discolor Willd., upon the same plant. Baker, in 2nd 
ed. of Syn. Fil ., makes it L. discolor W., var. Natalensis Bkr., 
and in Kaffrarian Ferns I named it L. lanceolata Spr., in 
mistake. 
Blechnum infiexum (Kunze). Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 92, 1868 ; C. Chr. 
Index , 155. 
Lomaria infiexa. Kze, Linnaea, 18, 1 1 7 ; Suppl. to Schk. 150, tab. 65; 
Pappe and Rawson, 28 ; Hk. Sp. 3, 37 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 
1 16. 
L. discolor Willd. var. Natalensis. Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. 2, 481; 
Buchanan’s List, No. 44. 
L. lanceolata. Sim, Kaff. Ferns , 34 (not L. lanceolata Spr.). 
South Africa only ; growing beside open streamlets. 
Kaff.— Above Perie Forest between Evelyn Valley and Kabula ; in 
one place only, but there abundant (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Found by Gueinzius; Nottingham, Karkloof, and on Drakens- 
berg at Cathkin abundant (Buchanan, Wood); Zwaartkop (T. R. 
Sim). 
86 . Blechnum attenuatum (Sw.) Mett. 
Plate 75. a Part of barren frond, nat. size, b Part of fertile frond, nat. 
size. Plate 76, fig. 2, Young plant. Plate 76, fig. 3, Bipinnate form. 
Crown shortly procumbent, branched, making a tufted 
mass, and set with narrow, brown scales. Both barren and 
fertile fronds ovate-lanceolate, simply pinnate, glabrous, coria- 
ceous, three to five feet long, eight to twelve inches broad at 
the middle, tapering to both ends, and having a nearly naked 
stipe, six to twelve inches long. Barren pinnae adnate at 
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