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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
Pteris Pohliana Presl. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 88. 
Pteris concolor. Langs, and Fisch. Ic. 19, tab. 21, 1810. 
Cheilanthes Kirkii. Hk. Ic. Fil. 2, tab. 81 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 132. 
Throughout the tropics and a little beyond them ; growing 
on dry banks in bush; not uncommon but rather local east- 
wards ; not recorded from the west. 
East. — Uitenhage (Drege) ; Bedford (Miss Cook) ; Amos Kloof, 
Grahamstown (Dr Atherstone); Boschberg (MacOwan); Kat River 
(E. and Z.). 
Kaff. — Tamacha (E. and Z.) ; Komgha (Flanagan) ; Pondoland 
(Drege); near Peddie, Dohne, Perie, Mt Kemp, Frankfort (T. R. 
Sim); Kei Road (F. A. Rogers); Engcoba (McLoughlin, 81). 
Natal. — From the coast to Maritzburg (Wood); Umpumulo (Bu- 
chanan) ; Howick (R. Schl. 6785) ; Buccleuch (W. Leighton) ; 
Besters and Brackwal (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — (Herb. Bolus) ; Marovuni (J. Burtt-Davy, 233) ; Water- 
kloof, Pretoria (A. J. Aledy, 784) ; Barberton, 3000 ft (Thorncroft, 
103) ; Pilgrim’s Rest (L. Collins, 898) ; Rustenburg (R. Leendertz, 
3377 ). 
Rhodesia. — M’ngama’s Poort (J. Fry); in the walls of the temple at 
Zimbabye, June 1904 (B. H. Holland) ; Umtali (Mrs Bennett) ; 
Matopo Hills, 4800 ft (Eyles, 1044; Miss Gibbs, 291); Victoria 
Falls (Monro); Gwaai River (J. Sim). 
1 1 2. Doryopteris deltoidea (Kze) Diels. 
Plate 105. Fig. 1. Nat. size. Fig. 2, var. laxa , nat. size. 
Crown tufted, abundantly set with rusty red scales. Frond 
widely deltoid, sub-coriaceous, glabrous, distinctly bi-pinnate; 
pinnae about three pairs, with lobed or pinnatifid pinnules, or 
the large lower ones on the lower side of the lower pinnae 
again pinnate. Frond one to one and a half inches long, 
one and a half to two inches broad, each lower pinna about 
as large as the rest of the frond above them, but much larger 
on the lower side than on the upper. Segments oblique, 
three lines long, one to two lines broad, bluntly triangular 
from about halfway down, below which they are narrowed 
with a curve into a broad base; the triangular part fertile, 
with a continuous, rather narrow indusium of the same texture 
as the frond, but having a thinner, scarious lobed margin. 
