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tion. This plant I at first thought to be C. multijida Sw., 
var. fi.flexa Kunze, but it is evidently distinct from C. multi- 
fida. Both species vary in size and with age and atmospheric 
condition, but are constant in the characters given in our 
synopsis. In both species young fronds are finely cut and 
very tender, the segment-margins being reflexed, rendering 
the segments distant and bead-like during drought or heat. 
Under moist conditions however these are open, flat and 
crowded, and when mature densely crowded, brown, and some- 
times fully occupied with brown capsules under fringed 
scarious indusia, the frond then having a totally different 
appearance from the delicate green young fronds. In both 
species the indusium is intra-marginal, though in the revolute 
state caused by dry atmospheric conditions the green margin 
is reflexed over and almost or quite hides the scarious in- 
dusium. 
The Transvaal and Rhodesian specimens are mostly C. 
Bolusii , the Cape and Natal specimens mostly C. multijida : 
but each occurs beyond these limits. For C. Bolusii , the 
following localities are noted : 
West. — By the Breede River at Darling Bridge, 1873 (Bolus Her- 
barium, 2801); found also by L. Kitching {Icon. PI.); Keureboom 
River in Long Kloof (Burchell, 5095). 
Natal. — Highlands (R. Schlechter, 6842). 
Transvaal. — Makapans Poort, 4800 ft, immature (R. Schl. 6487); 
Houtboschberg, 9000 ft, mature (Schl. 4459); Six Mile Spruit 
(C. M. v. Nieberk, 960); Heidelberg (R. Leendertz, 2661, 2663); 
Middelburg (J. T. Jenkins, 91 1); Belfast and Lydenburg (Miss 
Doidge). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (Holland); Bulawayo (Eyles and Johnson, 1019); 
Mazoe, 5000 ft (F. Eyles, 247); Ironmask Hill, 5000 ft (E. Eyles). 
126. Cheilanthes farinosa (Forsk) Klf. 
Plate 1 14. Nat. size. B Pinnule, X4. 
Crown tufted. Fronds deltoid or oblong-deltoid, two to 
three-pinnatifid, four to eighteen inches long, three to six 
inches wide, sub-coriaceous, glabrous, but coated on the under 
surface with white or yellowish powder. Pinnae deltoid, pin- 
nules largest on the lower side. Sori abundant, forming a 
