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dried. When mature the pinnules fall off, and several years’ 
leafless rachises are often on the plant. When dry the whole 
of the pinnules are reflexed, infolded backward, and bead-like, 
and the appearance is much changed. The figure of a magni- 
fied pinnule in Handbook of Kajfrarian Ferns (Plate XIV b), 
drawn from a frond in that condition, makes the reflexed 
lobes look like numerous rounded indusia, and is therefore 
misleading. This species was formerly placed as a variety of 
C. hirta , and is still so placed in Syn. Fil. and by Christensen, 
but is much more distinct than other ferns held as species 
there. It might as well be in Notholaena as here ; but C. 
hirta is more decidedly a Cheilanthes. 
Cheilanthes parviloba. Swartz, 128 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 85. 
Adiantum parvilobum. Sw. Schrad. Jour. 1800, 2, 85. 
Cheilanthes hirta Sw., var. parviloba. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 539; Pappe 
and Rawson, 35; Moore’s Index , 243; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 72; Hk. and 
Bkr, Syn. Fil. 136; C. Chr. Index , 178. 
Growing in dense masses on rocky exposed ground, or 
under stones in open situations. 
West.— Tulbagh (E. and Z.) ; Olifant’s River (Mund.); Lang Kloof 
(Holland); George (E. and Z.). 
East. — Uitenhage (Atherstone); Fish River (T. R. Sim); Grahams- 
town, 2200 ft (Schlechter, 2726). 
Kaff. — -Between King William’s Town and Peddie in several rocky 
places, and on similar ground elsewhere, but not common. 
Natal. — Upland Bush (Buchanan); Ladysmith (T. R. Sim). 
123. Cpieilanthes multifida Sw. 
Plate 1 13. Nat. size. Plate 91. Fig. 3. Pinnule, enlarged. 
Crown procumbent, tufted. Frond oblong-deltoid, usually 
twice as long as wide, three to four-pinnatifid, usually five to 
eight inches long, and three inches broad, but occasionally 
twelve to fifteen inches long, and six inches broad, glabrous, 
and shining on both surfaces, firmly herbaceous, dark green 
above, lighter below. Stipe as long as the frond, paleaceous 
at the base, slightly hairy at first, and afterwards like the 
rachis black, shining, wiry, and glabrous ; and flattened or 
channelled down the front. Pinnae deltoid, spreading, flat, 
