DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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South Africa only, and only once found. 
N. Rawso?ii Pappe. Pappe and Rawson, 43 (1858); Hk. Sp. 5, no; 
Hk. Icon. Fil. cent. 2, 77 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 370 ; Sim, 
Ferns of S. Afr. 1st ed. 206; C. Chr. Ind. 462. 
Cheilanthes Rawsoni. Mett. Msc.\ Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 75. 
West. — Between Spectakel and Komaggas; Namaqualand (Rev. Mr 
Whitehead). 
Specimens in Herb. Gub. are the original, and Lady 
Barkly says “not found since.” 
1 16. Notholaena inaequalis Kze. 
Plate 108. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 
Crown procumbent, or forming a short rhizome, densely 
paleaceous. Frond oblong or oblong-deltoid, sub-coriaceous, 
four to six inches long, one to three inches broad, with a 
dark stipe three to six inches long, which is at first woolly, 
and afterwards naked, but furnished with a tuft of long 
narrow reddish scales at the base. Pinnae opposite, the 
upper ovate-oblong and sessile, the lower shortly stalked, 
and unequally deltoid ; all cut to the mid-rib into oblong 
obtuse pinnules, which are either entire, or in the lower ones 
again pinnatifid. Upper surface more or less woolly ; under 
surface densely clothed with rufous woolly tomentum, which 
when young is nearly white. Margin fringed with hairs 
which are reflexed over the spores like an indusium. 
N. inaequalis. Kze, Fil. 1, 146; Pappe and Rawson, 43; Hk. and 
Bkr, Syn. Fil. 371; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 206 ; C. Chr. Ind. 
461. 
Cheilanthes inaequalis Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 73. 
South Africa only; 2000 to 2500 feet alt. 
Natal. — Dry rocks with a northern aspect, Inanda (Wood); Baloochi’s 
Kraal, Inanda (McKen); Umpumulo (Buchanan). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Burke, Zeyher) ; Marovuni (Burtt-Davy, 
238); near Standerton (Rehmann, 6739). 
Rhodesia. — On a hill four miles from Zimbabye (B. H. Holland) ; 
Salisbury (J. F. Darling, B. H. Holland); Matopo Hills (Eyles, 
1020) ; Mazoe, 5200 ft (Eyles, 339). 
