DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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wards shining- brown, or nearly black, and naked ; lower pinnae 
shortly stalked, one inch long, and hardly so broad at the 
base, deltoid, and having about six pairs of oblong pinnules, 
cut to the mid-rib into about four pairs of sessile ovate-lobed 
segments, which are coriaceous, much revolute when fertile, 
glabrous on the upper surface, but on the underside set with 
short thin reddish tomentum, scattered among which are a 
few long white woolly scales. The upper part of the rachis 
and its branches is also tomentose, and has scattered scales 
or hairs. The segments are small, half-globular, bead-like, 
and having the margin indexed and turned in all round the 
segment, with or without a small white indusium. 
Very like C. multifida in general appearance, but charac- 
terised by the woolly under-surface of the frond, as well as 
by the indusium. Lady Barkly and Wood give the running 
rhizome as its distinguishing character, but in C. multifida the 
crown is always more or less procumbent, and often extended 
into a rhizome. The plant mentioned by Wood as gathered 
near Newcastle, Natal, by Buchanan, and believed by him to 
be C. induta , differs from the typical multifida only in being 
glandular, or very slightly tomentose, on the under surface, 
but has no scales, and has the involucre white and mem- 
branous, in addition to the inrolled edge. From C. Bolusii 
that plant differs in the outline of the frond, as well as in 
having the lamina more expanded : and it can only be referred 
to C. multifida Sw., var. /3. flex a Kze. 
When the indusium is absent, C. induta might be placed 
in Notholaena, but it is too closely related to C. multifida to 
be generically separated. 
Cheilanthes induta. Kze, Linn. 10, 538 (1836); Pappe and Rawson, 
36; Moore’s Index, 244; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 73; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 
138; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 88 ; C. Chr. Ind. 175. 
Myriofiteris. F ee. 
South Africa only, and only in Western Cape Province. 
West. — Growing in rocky and shady places in the Sneeuwbergen 
(Drege); Springbok and Bowesdorp, Namaqualand (Sir H. Barkly); 
Koolifontein, 1912 (S. Burger, 962); common among rocks at Leeuw- 
fontein (Dr H. H. W. Pearson, 3223); Kradouw Krantz (Prof. 
Pearson, 5828) ; Khamiesberg, Beacon Hill, 2 miles S.E. of Lelie- 
fontein, 5200 ft (Prof. Pearson, 6374). 
