DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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187. Aneimia Dregeana Kze. 
Plate 166. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Crown erect or sub-erect, the undeveloped fronds clothed 
in lanceolate scales. Stipe four to eight inches long, villose, 
somewhat paleaceous below, bearing one barren and two 
fertile fronds or divisions. Barren frond almost sessile, six 
to twelve inches long, one and a half to two inches broad, 
simply pinnate, broadly lanceolate, and bearing six to ten 
pairs of alternate, ovate, blunt, toothed, thinly sub-coriaceous, 
sessile pinnae, one inch long, one and a half inches broad. 
Lower pinnae somewhat auricled on the upper side ; upper 
pinnae with a shortly cuneate sub-equal base. Fertile spike 
three inches long, half inch broad, on a three to four-inch 
petiole; its pinnae repeatedly divided into short linear seg- 
ments, covered on the inner surface with capsules. Veins 
sub-flabellate, free. Stipe and rachis villose, under surface 
and veins on upper surface of barren frond slightly villose. 
The fertile spikes may be regarded as two transformed and 
fertile lower pinnae, and Wood remarks that he has two 
fronds, natural sports, “one of which with a large barren frond 
bears two small ones, which are fertile at the base and barren 
and leafy at the apex ; the other one is a barren frond with 
the lowest pinna on each side again twice pinnate.” 
Kunze made two varieties of this species, but they are 
not distinct. 
Aneimia Dregeana. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 493; Pappe and Rawson, 46; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 171; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 431; Sim, Ferns of S. 
Afr ., 1st ed., 231; C. Chr. Ind. 52. 
South Africa only ; in rather dry bush. 
Kaff. — Outskirts of forest below Evelyn Valley (Leighton; T. R. Sim), 
not uncommon at Kei mouth (Flanagan); between the Omsamwobo 
and Omsamcaba (Drege). 
Natal. — Banks of Palmiet, and other streams behind the Berea, 
Inanda, Maritzburg, Noodsberg (McKen); Umpumulo (Buchanan); 
collected also by Gueinzius and Krauss (370) ; Howick, 3100 ft 
(R. Schl. 5 786); Nkandhla (Marriott). 
Transvaal. — Marovuni (Burtt-Davy, 222); Barberton (J. Thorncroft, 
101; P. Oranjie, 362). 
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