DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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is a quarter to a half inch long, and has five to eight pinnules 
on each side, one to one and a half lines long, folded together 
upward, and bearing the capsules on their inner surfaces. 
Sometimes the pinnules are forked, and plants found above 
Evelyn Valley had up to twelve points on each side. 
Schizaea tenella Kaulf. Schl. Adum. 13 ; Kunze, Linn. 10, 439 ; 
Pappe and Rawson, 46 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 428 ; Kuhn, Fil. 
Afr. 1 7 1 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 229; C. Chr. Ind. 617. 
South Africa only ; growing in shallow running water. 
West. — Hottentot’s Holland (Zeyher) ; Genadendal (Rev. C. R. 
Kolbing) ; George (three to twelve inches long) ; Clanwilliam (C. 
Leipold). 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Holland) ; Van Staaden’s River 
(Bolus, 1542). 
Kaff.— Above Perie Mission Station, and at Evelyn Valley, 4000 feet 
alt.; Engcoba Mountain, 1896 (Flanagan, 2755). 
Natal. — Inyangwine, Umtwalumi (McKen); near Umbilo Falls (San- 
derson). 
181. Schizaea pectinata (Linn.) Sw. 
Plate 159. Fig. 1. Nat. size, b Section of stipe. 
Rhizome shortly running or tufted, black, with numerous 
fronds, which are rigid, coriaceous, four to twelve inches high, 
one-half to one line broad, with a distinct mid-rib, and narrow, 
thick, revolute margins, and toward the base narrowed into a 
wiry, round, black stipe. Fertile segment horizontal, one-half 
to three-quarter inch long, three-eighths to one-half inch deep, 
with ten to fifteen linear or forked pinnae on each side, folded 
together upwards, on the inner surface of which the capsules 
are placed in two lines. The fertile segment is as large on 
short plants as on long, and the fronds on one plant are all 
of equal height. 
S. pectinata (Linn.). Sw. Sckrad. Journ. (1801); Thunb. Prod. 172; 
Thunb. FI. Cap. 734; Schl. Adum. 13; Kze, Linnaea , 10, 493; 
Pappe and Rawson, 45 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 17 1 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 429; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 230; C. Chr. Ind. 617. 
West. — Top of Table Mountain (Thunberg); Kerstenbosch (Bergius); 
Drakenstein (Thbg) ; Cango (Mund and Maire) ; Cape Flats 
