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lower side. Upper surface glabrous, or at first slightly woolly; 
lower surface covered with short tomentum, at first white, 
afterwards rufous brown. Some specimens have scales on 
the lower surface and on the stipe instead of tomentum, in 
which cases the scales are like those of Ceterach cordata , or 
sometimes more pointed. Sporeling plants under stones have 
often fronds deltoid and hairy with white scales, as in N. 
Buchanani Bkr, but afterwards change. 
N. Marlothii Hiern, as shown in specimens from Oka- 
handja (Dinter, 386) in Albany Museum Herbarium, differs 
in no respect from N. Eckloniana Kze, but is an extreme form 
of large size (one foot) with dense woolly white or rusty to- 
mentum, not changing to brown. Such specimens are not 
uncommon. N. Marlothii is included in C. Chr. Index Filicum 
Suppl. 1906; 1912, 53. 
Notholaena Eckloniana. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 501 (1836); Pappe and 
Rawson, 42; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fit. 371; Wood’s Natal Ferns , 33; 
Sim, Ferns of S. Apr ., 1st ed., 208 ; C. Chr. Ind. 460. 
Cheilanthes Eckloniana Mett. Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 71. 
Nothochlaena Krebsiana. Presl. 
South Africa only ; growing on or under dry stones, in 
sunshine. 
West. — Clan William (E. and Z.) ; Griqualand West (Moffat); Kim- 
berley (Dr Marloth) ; Namaqualand (Drege). 
East. — Krakakamma (MacOwan); Cradock (Holland); near Middel- 
burg Road, Uitenhage, Fish River Bush, Steynsburg, Naauwpoort, 
etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Kaff. — Beaufort, Katberg, Bolassi, Perie, Izeli, Peddie, Dohne Hill 
(T. R. Sim); also Komgha (Flanagan); Engcoba (A. G. McLough- 
lin, 1 12); Main (Mrs Young). 
Natal. — Noodsberg and Richmond to Cathkin, 3000 to 5000 feet 
(Buchanan); The Dargle, Bishopstowe (McKen); Shafton (Mrs H. 
Hutton, 132); Tugela (Nelson). 
Orange Free State. — Ficksburg (Quail); Tweespruit (Marriott); 
Bloemfontein (Prof. Potts) ; near Van Reenen (Dr Bews). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Burke); Trigardsfontein (Dr Rehmann) ; 
Houtboschberg, 6800 feet (R. Schl. 4704); Krugersdorp (T. J. 
Jenkins, 915); Ermelo (R. Leendertz, 2950); Heidelberg (R. 
Leendertz, 2666). 
