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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
in the margin closely placed all round the pinnule, but distinct, 
and consequently rather belonging to Cheilanthes than to 
Pellaea, though transferred to Pellaea by Prantl and retained 
there by Christensen. In our first edition, it was placed in 
Cheilanthes. 
Pellaea pteroides (Linn.). Prantl, Engl. Jahrb. 3, 420, 1882; C. Chr. 
I?id. 482. 
Cheilanthes pteroides. Swartz, Syn. 128; Schl. Adum. 48; Kunze,, 
Linnaea , 10, 536: 23,245; Pappe and Rawson, 33; Kuhn, Fil. Apr. 
74 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 131; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 482. 
A diantum pteroides. Linn. Sp. 7942; Thunb. Prod. 173; Thunb. FI. 
Cap. 736. 
Adiantopsis. Moore, 1857. 
South Africa and Java. 
West.- — In damp shady places among rocks near Cape Town, The 
Paarl, Table Mountain, Tulbagh, etc.; Swellendam (Holland). 
A decidedly western fern, but recorded by Lady Barkly 
from Orange Free State, and said by Kuhn to have been 
found in Natal by Gueinzius, though not found there since. 
Both these are considered mistakes. 
Genus 27. Doryopteris J. Smith. 
Fronds small, deltoid. Sori as in Pellaea. A small, badly 
defined genus of 38 species, mostly tropical, formerly included 
in Pellaea. 
Synopsis of the species : 
hi. D. concolor. Frond roundish, deltoid, two-pinnatifid, not cut 
quite to the rachis. 
1 1 2. D. deltoidea. Frond two inches long and broad, roundish, 
deltoid, two-pinnate, and cut quite to the rachis. 
1 1 3. D. robusta. Frond ovate oblong, two inches long, one inch 
broad, coriaceous, three-pinnate ; lobes of pinnules not at the 
base, but attached halfway up or more. 
hi. Doryopteris concolor (L. and F.) Kuhn. 
Plate 104. Nat. size, b Pinnule, enlarged. 
Crown tufted, scaly. Frond glabrous on both sides, firmly 
herbaceous, roundish deltoid, varying from nearly entire to 
