DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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Stenochlaena Meyeriana Presl. Pappe and Rawson, 43. 
Lomaria Meyeriana. Mett. 
Polybotrya tenuifolia. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 52. 
Mascarene Islands, tropical Africa, and coast districts of 
Natal and Kaffraria. 
Kaff. — Manubie Forest (J. H. Bowker). 
Natal. — Common in Wet Coast Bush, reaching to Inanda and Um- 
sundusi Mission Station, 2000 feet (Buchanan, McKen) ; Port 
Shepstone, Umtwalumi, Ngoya Forest, Umtunzini, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Matola, Limpopo, Inhambane (T. R. Sim). 
Pterideae. 
A. Gymnogramminae. 
Genus 23. Anogramma Link. 
Plant small, annual. Fronds decompound ; venation of 
the pinnules flabellate ; sori linear, simple or forked, situated 
on the veins in the upper part of the pinnule, without in- 
dusium. Eight species are included in this genus, mostly 
from Eastern Asia and South America ; our only species 
occurs in many countries. Included in Gymnogramme in 
our first edition. 
93. Anogramma leptophylla (Linn.) Link. 
Plate 109. Fig. 1. Small fertile plant, nat. size. 
Plant annual, delicately herbaceous, yellowish green, with 
a small erect crown producing four to eight fronds. First 
fronds barren, and much more foliaceous and flabellate than 
the more advanced fertile fronds, which are glabrous, deltoid, 
two-pinnate or three-pinnatifid, three inches long, one and a 
half inches broad, on a naked green stipe one inch or more 
long. Pinnae cut to the mid-rib into distinct, cuneate, flabel- 
late, three-fid or pinnately five to seven-fid, narrow lobes, 
with one vein in each, on which is placed the linear sori, 
mostly in the lobes but sometimes confluent below. Frond 
not powdered. 
s. f. s. a. 
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