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together in great luxuriance, yet everywhere with 
distinctive features so marked, so numerous, and, 
withal, so constant, that we feel constrained to recog- 
nise their claim to rank as species. So far, we agi'ee 
with Kuhn.] 
56 — A. lunulatum, Sw. ; (A falcatum, Thbg. A. 
regulare, Sw., A. Dafabella, Kze.) Usually near 
streamlets in bush ; from the coast to Umpumulo 
and Maritzburg Town-hill. Cape, St. Helena, Bour- 
bon ; Asia and America — At Engeleni, on the coast, 
we have seen a form of this with singularly flexible 
rachis, and proliferous apex, covering a considerable 
bank with as densely matted a turf as that of any 
strawberry bed. We have never seen Nos. 57, 58 
and 59 proliferous. — N. 
57. — A. brachyotus , Kze More constantly beside 
water in bush than No. 56 but occupying the same 
section of the Colony, viz., from the coast to 3,000ft. 
above sea. Cape. Asia. — N. 
58. — A. erectum, Bory, var. harpeodes , Kze. All 
through bush in the upper parts of the Colony, from 
2,000 to 5.d00ft above sea. Cape. W. Trop. 
Africa. — U.M. 
59. — A. gracile. P. & R. ; ( A. lobatum. P. &R.) — Natal 
is not credited by P. & R with this form, but we have 
seen specimens of both forms, in the Kawson Herba- 
rium, which are to us indistinguishable. Occupies 
the same district and much tbe same habitat as No. 
58. Cape A.pulchrum, Thouars, retained by Kuhn 
as a species, is probably the same. — U.M. 
59 a. — A. Zeylieri , P & R. A form which we have 
seen only twice in Natal, viz , once at Lynedoch, and 
once at Umpumulo; seems to be a variety of A. 
gracile, perhaps a connecting link with No 56. It 
seems to be the Aspl. polymorphum of Eckl. & Zeyh. 
Cape.— U.M. 
60. — A. Prionitis, Kze. ; (A. obliquvm, Willd.) 
Common in coast bush, sometimes on trees. We 
have seen it as far inla id as Inauda, 1,500ft. above 
the sea. E. Prov. Cape. Mauritius and Bourbon 
(Kuhn ) — C. 
61 —A. anisophyllum, Kze. Wet or very damp 
parts of bush; Inanda to Umpumulo, and thence by 
Port Buckingham and Karkloof to Richmond, 2,000- 
4,000ft. Varies in shape and cutting. Kafraria. 
Cameroons, Zambezi, Bourbon, Central and South 
America. — M.U. 
