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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
1 88. Aneimia tomentosa (Sav.) Sw. 
Plate 165. Nat. size. 
Stipe nine inches long, firm, channelled, and bearing one 
barren and two fertile divisions. Barren frond two-pinnate, 
nine inches long, four inches broad, tapering from the base 
upward, and having about twelve pairs of alternate spreading 
pinnae, which are one to two and a half inches long, three- 
quarters to one inch broad, sessile or almost so, and cut to 
the mid-rib into about five pairs of rather distant, alternate, 
oblique pinnules, half inch long, and hardly so broad, which 
are somewhat decurrent on the lower side, and mostly have 
a wide connection with the rachis, and are more or less 
confluent upward. Upper pinnae cut only halfway to the 
rachis. Fertile spikes shortly stalked, narrow, and cut almost 
similarly to the barren frond, but without lamina, and with 
the narrow pinnae ascending. Whole plant set with short 
reddish tomentum. 
A. tomentosa (Sav.) Sw. Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fit. 434; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 
17 1 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 232: C. Chr. Ind. 55. 
A. Schimperiana. Presl. 
Osmunda tomentosa. Sav. in Lam. Enc. 4, 652 (1797). 
South America, tropical Africa, and India. 
The above description and figure are from a specimen 
from Caracas kindly forwarded to me from Kew. 
Natal. — Collected by Sanderson, but not found since. 
Transvaal. — Dr J. M. Wood has had specimens from Swaziland. 
These specimens have not been seen by us, and it is 
possible that both belong to A. anthriscifolia , which was 
formerly considered to be a variety of A. tomentosa. 
189. Aneimia anthriscifolia Schrad. Gott. gel. Anz. 
1824, 865. 
Plate 164. Nat. size. 
Stipe six inches long, bearing when fertile one barren and 
two fertile divisions. On fertile fronds the barren segment 
is firmly herbaceous, deltoid, five to six inches long, four to 
five inches wide, three-pinnate or three-pinnatifid, somewhat 
fibrillose from long white hairs ; ultimate segments toothed ; 
