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common from Inanda to the Drakensberg, 2,000- 
5,00 ift. above sea. Thronghont So. Africa. — M.U. 
81. — A. (Polyst.) Capense, Willd. : (A. coriaceum, 
Sw., Polyst. coriaceum, P. & R ) Moist rocks, chiefly 
in the open ; about 3,000ft. above sea. Intshauga 
Cutting; Grt. Noodsberg; Itafamasi ; Maritzburg 
Town-hill. Rarely appears at Umpumulo. Through- 
out So. Africa. Masc. Is., Austr, and 1ST. Zealand ; 
Polynesia; from Cuba to Patagonia. — M. 
82. — A. (Polyst.) aristatum, Sw. ; (the entry of A. 
frondosum, Lowe, in McKon’s List was a mistake.) 
Margins of streamlets in bush: Maritzburg Town- 
hill ; sources of the Umlas ; Nottingham ; Karkloof. 
Not in Cape. Prom Japan and Himalayas to Ceylon, 
Norfolk Is., Fiji, Samoa, N. So. Wales. Zambezi 
(Kuhn.) — U. 
83. — A. (Cyrtomium) falcatum, Sw. ; (Aspid. anomo- 
phyllum, Kuhn ) In drier parts of bush, 3, 000-5, 000ft. 
above sea. Maritzburg Town-hill; Umpumulo (rare); 
Riet Vlei; Nottingham; Cathkin. E. Prov. Cape, 
Transvaal, Madagascar. Himalayas, China, Japan, 
and Sandwich Is. — U. 
NEPURODIUM. 
84. — A. ( Lastrea ) albo-punctatum, Desv. ; (Arthro- 
pteris,J . Sm„ Aspidium leucosticton, Kze.) Open rocks ; 
about two miles W. of the Inanda, and immediately 
below Insusi Waterfall, only; 2,000ft. above sea. W. 
Trop. Afr., Masc. Is., Fiji. — M. 
85. — -N. (Last.) Bergianum, Raker; (Lastrea patens, 
P. & R.) Reside almost every streamlet from the 
coast to Maritzbuig Town-hill, and even beyond, 
both in the open and in shade ; very large, with inner 
pinnules remarkably developed in Seven-Mile-Rush, 
Upper Umkomas. Thi’oughout S. Africa. — N. 
Aspid. Gueinzianum, Mett. ; (A. Natalense, Fee) 
‘ differs by the presence of a gland at the base of the 
pinnae beneath ;’ but this gland seems to us to be an 
almost invariable feature of the plant. At all events, 
we cannot distinguish between the two. 
86. — N. (Last.) Thelypteris, Desv. ; (Polypodium, 
L. the ‘ Marsh-fern ’ of Gr. Rr.) In marshes ; very 
common on the coast, but extending to the far up- 
lands. Throughout So. Africa. Angola, Europe, N. 
America, N. Zealand, Japan, Amurland, Cashmere. 
Kuhn gives our plant as Aspid. Thelypteris , Sw., var. 
squamuliqerum Schl., and confines it to the Cape, 
Natal and N. Zealand. — N. 
