DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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fertile divisions erect, rigid, half inch wide, six inches long on 
three-inch stalks, somewhat tomentose, three to four-pinnate, 
the segments narrow, incurved over the sori. Barren fronds 
rather larger than the barren section of fertile fronds. This 
is included by Baker as a form of A. tomentosa , and con- 
sidering the latter as a widely distributed and variable species 
it may be so, but so far as local specimens go this is sufficiently 
distinct to rank as a species here. In C. Christensen’s Index, 
p. 51, A. anthriscifolia is credited to Mexico-Paraguay only. 
Transvaal. — Barberton (J. M. Wood, 7599; J. Thorncroft, 959, 1911). 
Rhodesia. — Near Umtali (Holland, Mrs Bennett). 
Sub-Order VII. Osmundaceae. 
Genus 51. Todea Willd. 
Sori on the under surface of ordinary pinnae. A small 
genus, confined to South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and 
South Sea Islands. 
190. Todea Barbara (Linn.) Moore. 
Plate 169. Nat. size. 
Crowns sub-erect, in huge clumps, often three feet in 
height and diameter. Frond two-pinnate or two-pinnatifid, 
coriaceous, rather rigid, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate or sub- 
deltoid, two to four feet long, one to two feet broad at the 
middle, rather less below, and with a stout, naked stipe, one 
to two feet long. Pinnae sessile, lanceolate, six to twelve 
inches long, one to two inches broad, tapering to the point, 
and cut to the mid-rib in the lower part into oblong, obtuse, 
serrated pinnules, one inch long, quarter inch broad, with a 
wide adnate base ; the upper part of the pinnae not cut quite 
to the mid-rib. Sori mostly on the lower pinnules ; at first 
more or less distinct, round or oval, afterwards confluent, and 
filling the whole under surface. Veinlets free, once forked. 
Our plant is the only species now retained in Todea, which 
formerly included, besides this, three pellucid Australasian 
filmy ferns now removed to Leptopteris. 
Todea barbara (Linn.). Moore’s Index, 119; Hk. and Bkr, Sy?i. Fil. 
427; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 172; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 228; C. 
Chr. Ind. 633. 
