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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
opposite below, alternate above ; pinnules rather longer on 
the lower than on the upper side of the pinnae, cut to or near 
to the mid-rib into oblique ovate, three to five-lobed segments, 
each lobe much revolute at the point, but bearing a distinct, 
white membranous rounded indusium besides. The fertile 
pinnules have the margin much reflexed, and often more or 
less bead-like, but the barren frond is plain. 
Cheilanthes multifida. Swartz, Syn. 129, 334, 1806; Schl. Adum. 49, 
tab. 29; Kunze, Li?i 7 iaea, 10, 537; Pappe and Rawson, 33; Kuhn, 
Fil. Afr. 73; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 138; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 
1st ed., 87 ; C. Chr. Index , 177. 
Adiantum multifidum. Sw. Schr. Jour. 1800, 2, 85. 
Cheilanthes capensis. Ecklon, Un. It. 168 (Kuhn); not C. cape?isis Sw. 
Almost confined to tropical and sub-tropical South Africa, 
and growing in rocky places under small scrub, at 1000 to 
4000 feet alt., and not uncommon all over the district. Much 
confused with C. Bolusii. A specimen from Okahandja 
(Dinter, 392) in Albany Museum Herbarium differs very 
considerably from the usual form in the ultimate pinnae 
being not cut to the rachis, and may be a different species. 
West.— Table Mountain, Meiring’s Poort (Lady Barkly); Bain’s Kloof 
(R. Schl. 9130); Reitkloof Mts (Dr H. H. W. Pearson, 5726 and 
6327); Olifant’s River Mts (E. L. Stephens, 7316); Tulbagh, 
Zwarteberg, Caledon, Swellendam, Clan William, Dutoitskloof, etc. 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Plolland); Graaffreinet, and Oude- 
berg (Bolus); Somerset East (MacOwan); Winterberg. 
Kaff. — Katberg, Stormberg (Eck.); S.-W. of King William’s Town, 
Frankfort Hill, Perie, etc. (T. R. Sim); and in Transkei at Main 
(Mrs Young), and Intwanazana (Baur.). 
Natal. — Inanda, Inchanga, Cathkin, Unsusi Falls (McKen); Field’s 
Hill, Noodsberg, Umpumulo (Buch.). 
Transvaal. — Mamotsinri (Burtt-Davy, 207). 
Rhodesia. — Matopo Hills, 5000 ft (Eyles, 1019; Miss Gibbs, 69). 
Portuguese East Africa.— Zambesi (Kirk). 
124. Cheilanthes induta Kze. 
Plate 91. Fig. 1. Nat. size, b Pinnule, magnified. 
Rhizome creeping ; frond three-pinnatifid, bluntly ovate- 
lanceolate, four to six inches long, tapering from a base one 
and a half to two inches broad, and with a stout stipe of 
several inches, which is paleaceous when young, and after- 
