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swamp at head of Bay of Natal, was once thought by 
Mr Baker to be A . datum , Bojer (a Mauritius plant) ; 
but specimens of the same sent at a later date were 
adjudged by him to our No. 92. Iu this view we 
concui .— C.M. 
Kuhn gives a var. violascens Mett. as occurring 
frequently in Africa, but the purplish rachis (which 
probably occasioned the name) seems to depend en- 
tirely upon the degree of the plant’s exposure to 
light. 
NEPHROLEPIS. 
93. — N. acuta, Pr. ; (N. biserrata, Schott, A. spiel, 
biserratum, and acutum, Sw. Aspid. spltndens. Willd.) 
Abundant in openings in the bush swamp at head of 
Bay, and a few plants on rocks by Palmiet & Nonoti, 
only. Tropics, nearly over the world.— U. 
OLEANDRA. 
94. — O. articulata Pr. ; (A.spid. artic. Sw., 0. dis- 
tenta, and densifrons, Kze.; 0 Tuouarsiana, Pr.) On 
rocks; varying much in appearance according as 
exposed or shaded, in rich soil or poor : Kranskloof ; 
Intshanga; Mari' zburg Town hill ; and from Inanda 
through Noodsberg to Umpumulo; 2, (4)0-3, 000ft. 
Transvaal, W. Trop. Afr., Masc. Is. — M. 
POLY PODIUM. 
95. — P. ( Phegopteris) obtusilobum, Desv. ; (A.spid. 
Desvauxii, Mett., Polyp. Bergianum, P & R., as 
shown by the Rawson Herbarium, but which Kuhn 
has mistaken for their A.spid. Bergianum.) About 
shady streamlets ; c mmou from Umpumulo to Seven- 
Mile-Bush on the Upper Umkomas. Mas. Is., Fer- 
nando Po and Cameroons [Mr. Bater was once dis- 
posed to put this plant with A ephrodium conterminum, 
Desv (a common American plant), on account of a 
very minute involucre which may be detected on the 
plant occasionally ; but. in the late Ed. of ■ yn Fit. 
our No. 95 is regained as a Natal species; and, 
evidently, with reason ; for the involucre, even when 
visible (which is seldom), is strictly rudimentary, and 
the sori. as a whole, show all the irregularity, in 
shape and size, of other species of Pliego/ teris. N. 
microbasis , Baker, ‘ an African representative of 
conlerminum, ’ it seems, has a ‘ densely bristly ’ 
involucre.]— U.M. 
96. — P. ( Goniopteris ) prolferum, Pr. ; (Ampelop- 
teris, Kze.) Moist open ground from coast to 1,000ft. 
