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This is more rigid and leathery in texture than any of the 
other Pellaeas, and when the pinnae get old they drop off, 
leaving the petiole as if they had been jointed on to the 
top of it. Some specimens are remarkably hastate in every 
pinnule, others almost round, but often the first fronds are 
round, and later ones hastate. 
This was P. calomelanos in our first edition, while P. 
viridis was there named P. hastata Link. 
Pellaea hastata (Thbg). Prantl, Engl. Jahrb. 3, 418, 1882; C. Chr. 
Index , 480. 
Pellaea calomelanos Link. Hk. Sft. 2, 140; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. FiL 
152 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr. 1st ed. 104. 
Pteris calomelanos Sw. Schrad. Jour. 1800; Schl. Adum. 43, tab. 24; 
Kze, Linnaea , 10, 525. 
Allosorus calomelanos. Pappe and Rawson, 30. 
Pteris hastata. Thunb. Prod. 172 (1800); Flor. Cap. 733; Kuhn, FiL 
Afr. 81 (not Pteris hastata Sw.). 
Africa, Bourbon, India, and China; growing always among 
stones or in the crevices of rocks ; widely scattered in South 
Africa. 
West.- — Frequent; also extending to the north-west, including Kwebe 
Hills, Ngamiland (Mrs E. J. Lugard, 225) ; Grundoven, Great 
Namaqualand (Dr H. H. W. Pearson, 3124); Okahandja, etc. 
East. 1 
Kaffraria. > — Occurs everywhere among rocks, but seldom abundant. 
Natal. j 
Orange River Colony. — Wepener (Harper); Ficksburg (Quail); Twee- 
spruit (Marriott) ; near Van Reenen (Dr Bews) ; near Parijs (Prof. 
Potts, 569). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Zeyher, Burke); Shilouvane (Junod, 519); 
Marovuni, Crocodile and Magalies Rivers, Waterval Boven, and 
Pretoria (Burtt-Davy, 212, 231, 1436, 5023); De Wilt (S. Viljoen) ; 
Zoutpan (G. v. Dam); Klerksdorp (W. Nelson, 309); Krugersdorp 
(T. J. Jenkins, 867); Heidelberg, Standerton, Belfast, Ermelo, Zerust 
and Paul Pieters Rust (R. Leendertz, 2575, 4044, 2785, 3085, 4300, 
and 1423); Lydenburg (F. Wilms); Johannesburg (Williams); Bar- 
berton (Miss Williams); Matabas River (G. Krantz, 7 63); Rosehaugh 
(J. M. Sim). 
Rhodesia - . — Matopas (F. Eyles, 394); near grave of C. J. Rhodes 
(Holland); Salisbury (H. M. Hole); Matabeleland (Fry); Umtali 
(Mrs Bennett). 
