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two species out of 0 . capense Schlechtendal, viz. 0 . regulare 
Schl. and 0 . capense Sw. I do not find anything to justify 
the two, further than that a small form, differing in size only, 
has come in from Griquatown (Plate 167, fig. 3). 
O. capense. Sw. Schrader's Jour. 1803; Schl. Adum. 9, pi. 1; Kunze, 
Linn. 10, 487; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 176; Buchanan’s List, No. 131; 
Wood’s Natal Ferns, 40. 
O.vulgatum. Linn. Sp. 77 40; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 445; Sim, 
Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 237. 
O. 7 iudicaule. Pappe and Rawson/54 (not O. nudicaule Linn.). 
O. lusitanicum. Thunb. FI. Cap. 731; Prod. 171 (not 0 . lusitanicum 
Linn.). 
O. costatum. (R. Br.) Kunze, Linnaea (1836); Pappe and Rawson, 48. 
O. nudicaule , var. capensis. Mett. 
Widely distributed in South Africa; growing among grass 
on dry banks. 
West. — Table Mountain and Lion’s Mountain (Thunb.) ; Oliphant’s 
River (Mund and Maire) ; near Cape Town (Bergius) ; Gamka 
River (E. and Z.) ; Griquatown (A. W. Rogers, 1906, small form); 
Dabeep, Bushmanland (Dr Pearson, 6224) ; common at Kuibi’s 
Station, German S.-W. Africa (Dr Pearson); Osona, Damaraland, 
4000 ft (D inter, 364). 
East. — Uitenhage (Zeyher) ; Koegaberg, and Bushman’s River (E. 
and Z.) ; Bedford (Dr Atherstone); top of Cave Mountain, near 
Graaffreinet, 4500 feet; Nel’s Poort, Somerset East (MacOwan ; 
R. Schl. 2695); Port Alfred (Miss L. Britten). 
Kaff. — Bazija (Baur); Cathcart (Roth); near King William’s Town, 
frequent (T. R. Sim). 
Natal. — Sandy banks near Durban (Wood); Nottingham (McKen); 
Phcenix (R. Schl. 2935); Maritzburg, Port Shepstone, Vryheid, etc. 
(T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (?see above). 
Rhodesia.— Khami (Marloth, 3354). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Abundant near Inhambane (T. R. Sim). 
199. O PH IOGLOSS U M RETICULATUM Linn. 
Plate 167. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 
Crown erect, with several sheathing bracts, but not 
tuberous. Fronds one or two from a root, six to nine inches 
high, the fertile part one to one and a half inches long, sur- 
mounted by a short point, and having a petiole three to four 
