DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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the indusium) slightly woolly. Rachis and pinnules very rigid 
and coriaceous. Involucre same texture as the frond, intra- 
marginal. Pinnules when barren broader, and not revolute ; 
and the lower ones reduced. Veins forked, free (“ or very 
rarely anastomosing,” Kuhn), but lost in the firm frond, and 
not easily seen. Easily confused with P. dura. 
Var. MAJOR Sim (Plate 98, fig. 1) has nine pairs of pinnae 
each about one and a half inches long, one-third to one-half 
inch wide, fertile throughout ; rachis pubescent. It is from 
Ironmask Hill, Mazoe, Rhodesia, 5000 ft (Eric Eyles). 
Pellaea Goudotii (Kze). C. Chr. Ind. 480, 1906. 
Pellaea pectiniformis. Bkr, Syn. Fil. 2nd ed. 147 ; Sim, Ferns of 
S. Afr., 1st ed., 95. 
Pteris pectiniformis. Godet, Hb. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 87 (with de- 
scription). 
Pteris Goudotii. Kze, Hb. 
Pteris dura. Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. ed. 1, 147 (where P. Burkeana 
Bkr is included in it). 
African islands, and South Africa south to Natal. 
Natal. — 1000 to 3000 feet alt., Umzinyate Falls, Inanda, and Killie- 
crankie (Buchanan); Umhloti (Wood); Broadmoor, Schroeders 
(T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — (Bolus) ; Marovuni, dry rocks, not common (Burtt-Davy, 
235 )- 
Rhodesia. — Matopo Hills near American Mission (Miss Gibbs, 294) ; 
Mazoe, in crevices of cliff, sheltered aspect, fairly common locally 
(F. Eyles, 250). 
100. Pellaea lancifolia Baker. 
Plate 91. Fig. 2. Nat. size, c Pinnule, magnified. 
Crown much tufted, slightly paleaceous, or almost naked. 
Frond lanceolate, three to six inches long, one to one and a 
half inches broad at the middle, rather narrower below, two- 
pinnate, glabrous and herbaceous, with a naked brown stipe 
two inches long, and a naked rachis. Pinnae almost sessile, 
a half to one inch long, half inch broad; upper pinnae entire 
or lobed; middle and lower pinnae cut to the rachis into three 
to seven cordate, ovate, or deltoid, entire, oblique pinnules 
three to four lines long, two to three lines broad, cut away 
