ferns of natal. 
Stipes tufted, segments serrated and spiny ... mcequale 
pinnae imbricated,) . 1 
not spiny ... j cihamanticum. 
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j-, , “v/o a 
„ rrond soft with woolly hairs 
Section Ku-Nephrodium. 
Lowest pinnae as large as the others 
„ smallest; soft, hairy... 
catoptcron, 
unitum. 
molle. 
Section Lastrea, 
(In honor of Cavalier de Lastre, a French nobleman). 
vr Veins free. 
IN. albo-pun datum . 
wifh SSS flSX IZls™' % h : l t T eepi n g ,h i ZOme - Which - covered 
with lanceolate piSna ^ whk-h i e Z 18 w ° l ^ 0n |- |anceo,ate . onee pinnate, 
the raehia into b P lunt oblong 8e«-mentVthe d Io^wnfn ea, ’ y "°l quite ,0 
in the centre of the frond- r„,.w 0 „ C1 P'nnte smaller than those 
side of the midrib and chioflv mnfi i°, ‘surfaces fibrillose : son on each 
It is strongly scented the fine odor rW ° u PP ei ’ portion of the frond; 
are drying 8 and even in the bush 3 ^ perce J jtib]e "'hen the fronds 
i its perfume, before e nlan ’ ^V llla y ^ often detected by 
the fronds are wither n/ lr v ‘ s 1 lbIe - especially in autumn when 
{places in the Colony, bufit is rathe“?ar£ ^ 1Q 0n ® ° r tW0 0ther 
N. Bergianum. 
r'.iST 
T&ttStt&ss z:iz '*\T ed ' “*«”• 
almost falcate; sori small medi il • indn • ? ob Iobes ' which are 
rr£' U '"g <*> bo*t'rfaces”r„” o'XfbSlv f* 
Ve ’ T Sin,i ' ar in gSnera ; ™< «. »fte„ contaed 
N. thelypteris, 
i .i ^^5* a woman ; a fern). 
Identical with the English “Marsh Rnnl-iov •> n , . 
lose entire lobes, those of the barren frond th* \ 1 , ra011s into 
»rked, end, fork bearing a sen"; notiXnToXlt a >'e 
eon falling off; edge of. segment of ferae frond “"' I 
N. athamanticim. 
‘Inkomokomo’ of the natives; used by them as a vermifuwo it ■ * 
most parts of the Colony from Inanda inland almnlt • found 
nd and generally in ant-bear holes, but sometimes at mar f Pe > n 
x rs s& 1 
hotI ‘ Sl,rfaces n " ked '' 
