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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Holland). 
Kaff. — Common in bush above 1000 feet; Perie, Chumie, Frankfort, 
Stutterheim, Toise River, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Kranzkloof, and through Inanda, Noodsberg to Umpumulo, 
and from this line to the Drakensberg; common, 1500 to 4000ft 
(Buchanan, as A. conforme Sw,). 
Transvaal. — Pilgrim’s Rest (J. H. McLea, 54; Bolus, 1730); Maro- 
vuni, rare (Burtt-Davy, 290); Haenertsberg (Eastwood); Woodbush 
(Eastwood). 
Rhodesia. — Chimanimani Mts, 7000 ft (Swyn. 810). 
Var. RUPESTRE Sim. 
Plate 150. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 
Rhizome widely creeping, at first densely set with ovate, 
pointed, dark scales, afterwards naked. Frond one to three 
inches long, half to three-quarter inch broad, narrowly oval, 
bluntly pointed, or rounded at the apex, tapering to the 
stipe, sub-coriaceous ; both surfaces as well as the short stipe 
bearing numerous deciduous, ovate, membranaceous, brown 
scales, which soon fall off the upper surface, leaving it leathery, 
dark green, glabrous, and lined by the parallel veins. Fertile 
frond rather narrower. The extreme form which grows on 
exposed rocks above 4000 feet alt., looks very distinct from 
forest-grown forms of A. petiolatum , but every intermediate 
occurs at lower altitudes. 
Acrostichum viscosum Sw., var. rupestre Sim, Ferns of S. Apr ., 1st 
ed., 222. 
West. — Table Mountain (Bolus, 3899, in part); Zwaarteberg, Caledon 
(Ecklon). 
Kaff. — Dohne Hill, Perie, etc. (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Zwaartkop Mountain (T. R. Sim). 
Orange Free State.— Near Van Reenen (Dr Bews; R. Schl. 6917, in 
part). 
Transvaal. — Pilgrim’s Rest (J. H. McLea). 
169. ELAPHOGLOSSUM hybridum (Bory) Moore. 
Plate 15 1. Fig. 1. a Barren frond, nat. size, b Fertile frond, 
nat. size. 
Crown procumbent or with a short rhizome, woody, densely 
paleaceous, with long linear, nearly black, wavy scales. Barren 
