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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
revolute), one to two inches, long, half to three-quarter inch 
broad ; lower pinnae more distant, and more or less reduced 
in size ; all ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly stalked, and 
having about six pairs of nearly opposite, widely ovate, flat 
pinnules, rounded at the apex, cut halfway or more into 
about three pairs of rounded or slightly lobed segments. Sori 
three to ten to a segment, almost contiguous, but distinct, one 
to each veinlet, and having only one to three capsules in each, 
which are half covered by the rounded involucres formed of 
the reflexed and slightly crenate margin of the frond, hardly 
altered in texture. Frond abundantly set with white glandular 
hairs, especially on the upper surface, and the involucre is 
fringed with similar hairs. Texture softly herbaceous in shade, 
more or less coriaceous when exposed, but unless very dry, 
frond and pinnules are always alike spread out, or recurved 
only at the extreme edge. 
Cheilcuithes hirta. Swartz, Syn. 128, 329 (1806); Schl. Adum. 50, 
tab. 30; Kze, Linnaea , 10, 539: 23, 244; Pappe and Rawson, 35; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 72; Hk. and. Bkr, Syn. Fil. 136; Sim, Ferns of 
S. Afr., 1 st ed., 83 ; C. Chr. Index , 175. 
C. hirta Sw., var. laxa. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 539; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 72. 
C. olivacea. F ee. 
C. hirta Sw., var. olivacea. Sim, Kaff. Ferns , 27. 
Adiantwn caffrornm Sw. Schrad. four. 1800, 2, 85 (non Linn., 
Thunb., etc.). 
Nothochlaena cafensis. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. Suppl. 32. 
Cheilanthes glandulosa. Pappe and Rawson (possibly a form of 
C. parviloba). 
Cheilanthes ref r acta, P. and R. No. 94, founded on a 
Griqualand specimen, is also given as a synonym here by 
Lady Barkly, but according to their description must be 
something different. As it is maintained by Christensen, 
Pappe and Rawson’s description is subjoined 1 . 
1 “94. Cheilanthes refracta Nob. (N. sp.) 
Frond two to three-pinnate, deltoid, rigid, perfectly smooth; pinnae alternate, 
remote, deltoid-ovate, patent, upper ones subsessile, middle and lower ones stalked ; 
petioles more or less reflexed ; pinnules lanceolate-oblong, sessile, confluent at the 
apex, and as well as the intermediate ones crenate; lowermost distant, pinnatifid. 
Stipes short, half round, channelled on the upper side, flexuose, and like the 
rachises glossy. 
In Griqualand (Mr Robert Moffatt, 1857), v.sF ( v.s. = vide siccam , T. R. Sim.) 
