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East.— Oudeberg, near Graaffreinet (Bolus, 4200). 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan); near Kei Bridge (Flanagan, 1240). 
Natal. — Inanda, Umpumulo, Kranzkloof, and abundant all along the 
road to Newcastle (Buchanan). 
Transvaal. — Lekker Kraal (G. Krantz) ; Pilgrim’s Rest (L. Collins, 
897) ; Waterval Onder (T. J. Jenkins). 
105. Pellaea VIRIDIS (Forsk) Prantl. 
Plate 96. Nat. size of small frond. Varieties on Plates 97, 98, 99. 
Rhizome subterranean, creeping, short, nearly naked. 
Frond very various, ovate-lanceolate, or sub-deltoid, one to 
three feet long, on a nearly naked, shining, brown, wiry stipe, 
one foot long, which, when young, has scattered, soft, ad- 
pressed, woolly scales toward the base. Frond generally 
two-pinnate, the lower pinnae not longer than those above, 
and having one to four pairs of broadly lanceolate or ovate 
pinnules, three-quarters to two inches long, cordate or rounded 
at the sessile, but not adnate, base, rounded at the point ; 
crenate when fertile as well as when barren, as the indusium 
is slightly intramarginal. Indusium linear, narrow, mem- 
branous, not lobed, crenate, nor waved, and when mature 
standing at right angles to the frond. Colour deep green ; 
texture coriaceous ; veins distinct ; upper surface glabrous ; 
lower surface and secondary rachises in some plants densely 
villose, in others glabrous. Rachis deeply channelled in front, 
more or less villose in the upper part. This is a variable 
plant with a wide range of cutting. 
This is P. hastata Link, of our first edition, and the change 
of names is very confusing, as P. calomelanos Link, of that 
edition now becomes P. hastata (Thbg) Prantl. 
Pellaea viridis (Forsk). Prantl, Eng. Jahrb. 3, 420, 1882; McKen; 
C. Chr. Ind. 483. 
Pellaea hastata Link. Hk. Sp. 2, 145, tab. ii6b; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 152 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 101. 
Pteris hastata. Sw. Schrad. Jour. 1801; Schl. Adum. 42 (not Pteris 
hastata of Thunberg (1800) or Kuhn). 
Allosorus hastatus Presl. Pappe and Rawson, 30. 
Cheilanthes hastata. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 532. 
Cheilanthes hastata , var. stenophylla. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 533. 
