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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
and Rawson, 38; Hk. Sp. 5, 180; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 396; 
Sim, Ferns of S. Afr. 1st ed. 216. 
Vittaria te?iera Fee. Hk. Sp. 5, 179. 
Vittaria sarmentosa Fee. Hk. Sp. 5, 180. 
Pteropsis angustifolia. Pappe and Rawson, 43. 
Pteropsis Kuhnii. Pappe MS. in Herb. Gub. 
Taeniopsis. J. Smith. 
Africa and its islands ; growing on trees and rocks in 
damp places, mostly near the mountain tops in South Africa; 
rare. 
West. — Swellendam (Mund); George (Drege ; Burchell, 5838); Gena- 
dendal (Rev. Kolbing); Table Mountain, above Klaasenbosch, 2300 
feet (Bolus, 4907). 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Holland); formerly in Fern Kloof, 
still in Grobbellar’s Kloof (Dr Atherstone). 
Kaff. — Perie, Mount Kemp, Stutterheim, etc. ; frequent in moist 
forests. 
Natal. — Most parts of the colony, not common (Wood); sparsely from 
coast to Drakensberg (Buchanan); Noodsberg, Fort Buckingham, 
Inanda, Kranzkloof, Maritzburg, and Coast Bush Bluff (McKen); 
Buccleuch (Leighton). 
Rhodesia. — Chimanimani Mountains, 7000 ft (Swyn. 802). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Behind Beira; Magenja da Costa and 
Messengerie (T. R. Sim). 
153. Vittaria scolopendrina (Bory) Thw. 
Plate 186. Nat. size. 
Rhizome procumbent, wiry, simple or branched, rooting 
into humus, and clothed with linear black scales. Fronds 
numerous, two to three feet long, herbaceous, glabrous, half- 
inch wide at the middle, tapering to the slender wiry stipe, 
and also tapering somewhat to the bluntly pointed apex. 
Midrib distinct ; two other parallel veins are present on each 
side but less evident. Margin entire. Sorus linear, slightly 
intramarginal. A grasslike fern with long pendulous fronds. 
Found in New Guinea, Philippine and Malayan Isles, Neil- 
gherries, Ceylon, Seychelles and Mozambique. 
Portuguese East Africa. — Overhanging streams south of Inhambane ; 
also near Arenja, Magenja da Costa (T. R. Sim, 5781). 
