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87. — A. (Last.) athamanticum, Hk. ; (Aspid. atham. 
Kze , Lastrea atham. P. & R. L. Plantii, Moore.) 
In the open, often in ant-bear holes ; in most parts of 
the Colony. It is the In ko mo homo of the Kafirs, and a 
vermifuge like its congener the * Male Fern ’ of Grt. 
Brit. Rare in Cape. Angola, Magalisberg. — N. 
88. — A. (Last.) in (Equate, Hk. ; ( Aspidium , Schl.) 
In moist (not wet) places nearly everywhere over the 
Colony, the larger specimens having a very different 
appearance from the smaller. Throughout So. Afr. 
Trop. Afr., and Masc. Is. — MU. 
Kuhn gives Aspidium pentagonum, ( Lastrea pen- 
tagona, P. & R.) as a different species; but small 
specimens in the Rawson Herbarium Baker takes to 
be ‘ N. Filix-mas , Rich., or perhaps N. in ce quale, Hk.’ 
They seem to us to be only the smaller form of the 
latter. 
89. — N. (Last.) Buchanani, Baker ; (Lastrea crinita. 
Bobrin. This name, if the plant be the same, is 
descriptive ; for, while growing, the fronds are 
covered with long hairs, strikingly transparent in the 
Bunlight, but quickly disappearing in tbe process of 
drying.) Close beside running water in shade, about 
4,00: )f fc. above sea ; first discovered at Nottingham, 
afterwards found on Zwartkop ; Karkloof Heights ; 
and in Griqualand West on the heights at Hancock’s 
Drift, Umzimkulu. Bourbon. — U. 
90. — N. (Last.) catopteron, Hk. ; (Aspid. lanugino- 
sum, Kuhn., A. odoratum, Mett.) Near streamlets, 
in bush: Inanda; Noodsberg; Umpumulo (common); 
Maritzburg Town-hill ; Richmond. Found by Lady 
Barkly at George and the Knysna, Cape. Guinea 
Coast, and Masc. Is. — M.U. 
91. - -W. vnitum, R. Br. var. propinquum, R. Br. ; 
(Aspid. unitum, var. glabra, Mett., JV. Fcklonianum, 
P. & R., A. Ecklonii, Kze.) In marshes and wet 
places, in the open ; common from the coast to Um- 
pumulo and Maritzburg. Throughout So. Afr. Cos- 
mopolitan. Kuhn gives P. and R.’s Fephrodium 
Plantianum, as a distinct species from this, but spe- 
cimens in the Raws. Herb, prove them to bo the 
same. — C.M. 
92. — N. molle, Desv. (Aspid. mol/e, Sw., Poli/p. 
parasiticum, L.) Moist and shady places; on the 
coast, and common from Inanda to Umpumulo. 
Transvaal. Cosmopolitan. What we take to be only 
a luxuriant form of this plant, found in the bush- 
