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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
119. Notholaena bipinnata Sim. (New species.) 1 
Plate 109. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 
Frond ovate, two-pinnate, four to six inches long, two to 
three inches broad at the middle, with a stipe three inches 
long. Upper pinnae ligulate, entire, adnate, obtuse; two lines 
wide ; other pinnae distinct, one to two inches long, one-third 
to two-thirds inch broad, cut to the mid-rib into entire blunt 
oblong lobes, of which the lower are often less than the others. 
Upper surface glabrous or slightly hairy, lower surface clothed 
with pointed brown scales or woolly tomentum. Fower pinnae 
rather reduced. Rachis at first woolly; glabrous when old. 
Rhizome procumbent, stout, densely paleaceous with long 
narrow brown scales. 
The locality for this curious fern, which was named Gym- 
nogramme cordata Schl., var. bipinnata in our first edition, and 
which at that time had only been seen in Mr Holland’s 
collection, was not known with certainty, but it was thought 
to have been received from Namaqualand. Another nice 
specimen, however, from Bulawayo (Eyles and Johnson, 1020), 
has been seen in the Albany Museum Herbarium, and as it 
shows the sori well the plant is evidently a Notholaena, and a 
new one. Mr Holland’s collection contained many Rhodesian 
1 1 19. Notholaena BiriNNATA Sim. (Species nova.) 
Tab. 109. Fig. 2. Mag. nat. 
Folia ovata, bipinnata, 4 — 6 " longa, 2 — 3" lata ad medium, stipes 3" longus; 
pinnae superiores ligulatae, integrae, adnatae, obtusae, latae, reliquae distinctae, 
1 — 2" longae, 3 — §" latae, sectae ad costam in lobos integros, obtusos, oblongos, 
quorum inferiores saepe minores quam ceteri ; supra glabrae sive tenuiter pilosae, 
infra paleis fuscis, acuminatis, sive tomento lanuginoso vestitae ; pinnae inferiores 
paullum abbreviatae ; rhachis primo tomentosa, senescens glabra ; rhizoma pro- 
cumbens, robustum, dense paleaceum, paleis longis, angustis, fuscis obsitum. 
Locus filicis huiusce singularis, cui nomen Gymnogramme. cordata Schl., var. 
bipinnata in priore editione ’nostra inditum, quaeque eo tempore non nisi in coll. 
Hollandii visa erat, haud pro certo notus fuit; a Namaqualand autem accepta 
fuisse credebatur. Aliud tamen specimen pulchrum a Bulawayo (Eyles et Johnson, 
1020) in herb. Albany Museum apparuit, quod quoniam soros luculente ostendit, 
manifeste patet Notholaena, eaque nova. Inerant coll. Hollandii filices multae 
Rhodesianae, unde veri simile est illius quoque specimen a Rhodesia potius quam 
a Namaqualand adlatum. 
