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Kaff. — Chumie, Kat River (Drege); Komgha (Flanagan); Bazija 
(Baur); Perie, Frankfort, Dohne, Toise River, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Maritzburg to Drakensberg, common (Buchanan) ; Inanda 
(Wood). 
Orange Free State. — Near Van Reenen (Dr Bews ; R. Schl. 6936, 
6914). 
Transvaal. — Marovuni (Burtt-Davy, 230) ; Barberton (J. Thorncroft, 
129); Johannesburg (A. Pehrsson, 265); Houtboschberg (W. Nelson, 
475); Embabaan, Swaziland (Burtt-Davy, 2796). 
Rhodesia. — Melsetter, 6000 ft (Swyn. 81 1); Chipete Forest, 3800 ft 
(Swyn. 812); Chimanimani (Swyn. 813); Mt Pene, 7000 ft (Swyn. 
6008, 6019). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Moramballa Mts (Kirk, Waller). 
Var. / 3 . SINUATUM Sim (in Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 202). 
Plate 143. Nat. size. 
Frond waved at the margin or irregularly pinnatifid, and 
in strong plants sometimes two or more of the lobes are an 
inch or more long. The sori are sunk into the frond, and 
show themselves through as raised projections on the upper 
side ; and there are sometimes a few scales on the upper as 
well as on the under surface. Like the type this varies in 
size in accordance with exposure, but it is constant in its 
sinuate lobed character where it occurs, and has seldom an 
ordinary frond. Sometimes it is not unlike P . polypodioides, 
and the peltate scales and the rhizome are similar to that 
species. Evidently something similar is found elsewhere, for 
Baker in Ann. Bot. vol. V. 1891, in reference to the Columbian 
P. leucosporum Klot., writes: “I now regard this as an ab- 
normal, more or less deeply pinnatifid, form of P. lanceolatumP 
East. — Tzitzikamma (Dr Atherstone); Fordyce Tree (Holland); Bosch- 
berg (MacOwan). 
Kaff.— -Above Perie Mission Station, and above Evelyn Valley. 
Natal. — Seven Mile Bush, Upper Umkomaas, and on the heights near 
York (Buchanan); Ngomi Forest, and Zwaartkop (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — Houtboschberg, 6300 ft (Schlechter, 4452). 
162. Polypodium lycopodioides Linn. 
Plate 144. Fig. 1. Nat. size. Fig. 2. Var. Mackenii Bkr. Nat. size. 
Rhizome epiphytal, widely creeping, rather slender, one to 
two lines diameter, clothed with lanceolate, brown, pointed 
