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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
South Africa, and Mascarene Islands. 
West. — Plettenberg’s Bay (P. and R.); Kaatjes Kraal, Knysna (Bur- 
chell, 5277); Table Mountain (Mr Marquard); Devil’s Mountain 
(Guthrie); Genadendal, etc. (P. and R.); George (R. Schl. 2339). 
East. — Somerset East (Guthrie); Grahamstown (Holland); Boschberg 
(MacOwan); Zuurberg, etc. 
Kaff. — Perie Forest, Mount Kemp, Frankfort, etc. (T. R. Sim); 
St John’s (Flanagan, 2477). 
Natal. — Great Noodsberg, Inanda, Field’s Hill, Maritzburg, and 
Zwaartkop (McKen); Umbilo Falls, Umpumulo (Buchanan); Mid- 
lands (Wood); Buccleuch (W. Leighton); Sweetwaters (T. R. Sim). 
Rhodesia.- — Headwaters of the Zona, Chirinda Forest, 4000 ft (Swyn. 
820). 
128. Hypolepis Bergiana (Schlecht.) Hk. 
Plate 1 1 5. Nat. size, b Pinnule. 
Crown tufted, set with lanceolate brown scales. Frond 
triangular, three-pinnate or four-pinnatifid, herbaceous, four 
to eighteen inches long and broad, on a rusty brown stipe 
four to twelve inches in length, which is paleaceous at the 
base only, but thickly set throughout with very short spreading 
or recurved glandular jointed hairs. Rachis and mid-ribs 
tomentose with similar hairs, and both surfaces of the frond 
are villose with short white glandular hairs. Lower pinnae 
much largest, deltoid ; secondary pinnae on the lower side 
larger than those on the upper side, and the same is the 
case with the pinnules. Pinnules ovate, a quarter to three- 
quarter inch long, cut to or near to the mid-rib into oblong, 
obtuse, entire, or lobed segments, bearing rounded sori along 
each side. The indusium is thin and membranaceous, and 
the sori are sometimes placed along the edges of the pinnules 
as in Cheilanthes, in which genus it was placed by Pappe 
and Rawson ; but in Cheilanthes they are most abundant 
toward the points of the lobes and pinnules, while here they 
are most regular in or near the sinus, or where a sinus might 
be expected if the frond were further divided. 
This plant has no rhizome, and therefore seems out of 
place in section Eu-hypolepis, characterised by wide-creeping 
rhizome, in which it is included in Syn. FiL\ but frequently 
in cultivation young plants spring up from adventitious buds 
