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or triangular, one to four inches broad, two to four inches 
long, on a dark brown polished stipe two to four inches long, 
and slightly scaly at the base. Pinnae opposite, obtuse, del- 
toid, sessile, or shortly stalked, cut to or near to the mid-rib 
into two to five pairs of entire or lobed rounded oblique, 
more or less alternate and decurrent pinnules, which are 
serrate when barren, and not reflexed when fertile. Some- 
times the lower pinnae are again pinnate. Rachis shining 
black, round, or in the pinnae more or less winged. Sori 
small, closely set all round the pinnules, but distinct. In- 
volucre membranaceous, ciliated. This is Cheilanthes capensis 
of our first edition. 
Kunze makes two varieties, viz.: 
a. de?itatum. Frond sub-coriaceous, stipe and rachis firm, pinnules, 
and segments dentate, indusia sub-contiguous. 
13. c?'enatum. Frond membranaceous, stipe and rachis slender, pin- 
nules and segments sinuatc-crenate, sub-emarginate, indusia remote. 
Var. crenatum is the ordinary form. Var. dentatum is 
Burchell’s 5602 and 1015. 
Adiantopsis capensis (Thbg). Fee, Gen. 145, 1850-52; C. Chr. 
Index , 21. 
Cheilanthes capensis. Swartz, Syn. 128; Schl. Adum. 48, tab. 28;; 
Pappe and Rawson, 33; Kuhn, Fil. Apr. 70; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 132 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 81 (not C. capensis Ecklon). 
Adiantum capense. Thunb. Prod. 173; Thunb. FI. Cap. 736; Swartz,, 
Schrad. Jour. 1800, 2, 85; Kze, Linnaea , 10, 530. 
Hypolepis capensis. Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 71, t. 77 c. 
South Africa only ; growing in shady localities in the 
southern district, but rare in Kaffraria and Natal. See note 
under Pellaea lancifolia , page 202. 
West. — Common near Cape Town, Goukamma, near Knysna (Bur- 
chell, 5602); Tulbagh Kloof (Burchell, 1015); also Swellendam 
(Holland); Rondebosch (Bergius); Porterville (R. Schl. 4887);. 
Concordia (R. Schl. 11338); Clan William and Stellenbosch (Ecklon); 
Namaqualand, and Ruigtevallei (Drege); Piquiemier’s Kloof (R. 
Schl. 4951) ; Karreebergen (R. Schl. 8278); Richter’s Veld, Anenous 
and Khamiesberg (Prof. Pearson, 6169, 6182, and 6633). 
East. — Algoa Bay (Forbes); Van Staaden’s River (Browning); Graaff- 
reinet (Bolus); Boschberg (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Chumie Forest, Alice (Mrs Young); Dordrecht Kloof (T.R. Sim). 
