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glabra Bory is still mentioned as a variety in Syn. Fil. , and 
is maintained by Christensen as from S. Africa and Reunion, 
but the specimens I have seen do not seem to have characters 
for two forms, and Sanderson’s specimens in Herb. Gub. named 
L. glabra are as hairy as others. 
Kuhn gives three species, viz. : 
1. Pteris glabra. Cape, Natal, and Bourbon. 
2. Pteris natalensis Kuhn=Z. natalensis P. and R. Natal, and 
Johanna Island. 
3. Pteris pubescens Kuhn = Z. pubescens Willd. = Z. hirsuta Bory. 
Mascarene Islands only. 
Schlechtendal’s otherwise good figure shows sori without 
indusia, though the indusium is described in the text. 
Lonchitis pubescens Willd. Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 56 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 128; Wood’s Natal Ferns , 9; Sim, Ferns of South Africa , 1st 
ed., 75 ; C. Chr. Index , 409. 
Lonchitis natalensis. Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 57, t. 89 b; Pappe and Raw- 
son, 38. 
Lonchitis glabra Bory. Schl . Adum. 47, t. 27; Kunze, Linnaea , io r 
528; Kunze, Suppl. to Schk., t. 66; Pappe and Rawson, 38; Hk. 
Sp. Fil. 2, 57; C. Chr. Index , 409. 
Pteris. Kuhn as above. 
Africa, African Islands, and South America ; growing in 
wet bush, coast, or midland districts of South Africa. 
West. — Knysna (Lady Barkly); George (Holland; Burchell, 5814) ^ 
George (R. Schlechter, 2338, distributed as Hypolepis sp.). 
East. — Tzitzikamma (P. and R.). 
Kaff. — Perie Forest (T. R. Sim); Pondoland (Drege); Evelyn Valley, 
1894 (J. Leighton); Port St John’s (Flanagan, 2474). 
Natal. — Kranzkloof, Inanda, Umbilo, Field’s Hill, Great Noodsberg 
(McKen); Umpumulo (Buchanan); Nkandhla (Marriott); Buccleuch 
(Leighton); Sweetwaters (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — Haenertsberg (Eastwood ; Mrs Pott, 4673). 
Genus 36. Histiopteris (Agardh.) J. Smith. 
Indusium continuous ; veins anastomosing freely without 
free included veinlets. Habit of Pteris, and in our first edition 
included in it. Only two species, of which one is from the 
Philippine Islands and the other is represented in South Africa 
and elsewhere. 
