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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
Natal. — Eland’s Kop, Mooi River, 5000 feet alt. (Buchanan); Wel- 
lington, Rosetta (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — (Lady Barkly). 
Genus 29. NOTHOLAENA R. Brown. 
Sori marginal, linear, almost or quite without indusium. 
Fronds two to three-pinnatifid. A small genus not naturally 
connected to any of the other non-indusiate genera, but 
closely related to Cheilanthes. In some of the species the 
margin is partly revolute over the sori, but there is no separate 
indusium. Some authors spell the name N othochlaena. 
Synopsis of the species : 
1 1 5. N. Rawsoni. Frond linear-lanceolate, half inch wide. 
1 16. N. maequalis. Frond oblong, both surfaces woolly. Crown 
set with reddish scales, stipe almost naked. 
11 7 - N* Buchanani. Frond deltoid, stipe hairy; both surfaces 
woolly. 
1 1 8. N . Eckloniana. Crown and stipe paleaceous or woolly. Frond 
oblong, upper surface naked, or nearly so. 
1 1 9. N. bipinnata. Frond ovate, lower pinnae reduced, upper 
surface naked. 
1 1 5. Notholaena Rawsoni Pappe. 
Plate 107. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Rhizome running, one line diameter, several inches long, 
woody, and clothed with lanceolate, adpressed, dark scales. 
Frond linear-lanceolate, six to nine inches long, one-half to 
three-quarter inch broad, with a naked or shaggy tomentose 
wiry stipe three inches long, and about twenty pairs of ovate, 
sub-coriaceous pinnae, which are slightly stalked below, sessile 
above, and divided to near the mid-rib into three to four 
pairs of close rounded pinnules. Pinnae alternate, half inch 
long, quarter inch broad, glabrous on the upper surface, 
densely tomentose or shaggy below, and when dry all in- 
rolled along the rachis into globules of red tomentum; rachis 
also red tomentose. Sori in the shag without indusium. 
Lower pinnae rather smaller than those about the middle 
of the frond. 
