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pying tlic whole under surface of the segm. Hab. : — Rocky places, and ur 
shght shade ; Mapumulo ; Greytown ; Townhill bush ; Mooi River. 
56. A. solidum, Ivuuze ; stem tufted, 4-6 in. 1., dark chesuut -brown, na! 
polished ; fr. oblong-deltoid, 6-12 in. 1., 4-6 in. b., with 8-12 pinnae on cj 
side, which decrease gradually upwards, the lowest lanceolate-deltoid, 4 ir 
2 in. b., cut down to the rachis into several quite distinct deltoid pinnl., wll 
are again cut down below to the rachis into sharply serrated rhomboidal seg 
texture subcoriaceous ; rachis ehesnut-brown and polished like the stem ; v 
liabellate, channelled ; sori linear-oblong, when mature sometimes filling 
nearly the whole width of the segments. Hab. : — Ravines near Peel’s, Um 
57. A. cuneatum, Lam. ; st. tufted, 6-8 in. 1., firm, erect, naked ; fr. 6-1 1 
1., 6-9 in. br., with numerous spreading pinna? on each side, the lower ones I 
in. 1., 1 - I V in. br., lanceolate-deltoid, cut down to the rachis into several distl 
ovate-cuneatc pinnl., which are inciso-deutate, and cut down in the lower jl 
nearly or quite to the rachis ; texture subcoraceous ; rachis firm, greyish, nel 
naked ; veins fine, conspicuous on the upper surface ; sori linear, sub-flabell 
(A. splend°n.i, Kze.) Hab. : — Ravines near Oakford ; Palmiet, near Clfl 
on trees and in dry parts of bush, Maritzburg ; Inanda ; Nottingham. 
58. A furcatum, Thunb. ; st. tufted, 4-8 in. 1., firm, erect, clothed with I 
ciduous woolly hairs ; fr. 6-18 in. 1., 4-6 in. br., with 12-20 pinna? on each I 
which are lanceolate-deltoid in general outline, 2-3 in. 1., f-1 in. br., cut dl 
throughout nearly or quite to the rachis into linear-cuncate pinnl., which I 
sharply serrated on t he outer edge ; texture, coriaceous ; rachis firm, erect, il 
or less fibrillose like the stem ; veins deep-channelled, liabellate ; sori lii I 
radiant. (A. prremorsum, Sw.) Hab. : — Rocky places and bush, Little N<dl 
berg; Greytown ; Townhill, Pietermaritzburg ; Nottingham to Cathkin, cl 
mon. 
59. A. laserpitiifoUmn, Lain.; st. tufted, 6-12 in. 1., firm, erect, gre;l 
naked ; fr. 2-4 ft. 1., 6-18 in. br., with numerous pinna? on each side, the lol 
deltoid-lanceolate, 6-9 in. 1., 4-6 in. br., cut down to the rachis into mime I 
distinct pinnl., the lowest with rhomboidal-euneate segm., again deeply pinnat ft 
texture, herbaceous ; rachis slender, naked ; veins fine and deeply channel 
sori short, linear-oblong, irregular. Hab. : — Peel’s on the Umlass, in 
ravines ; in similar localities, Noodsberg. 
60. A. varians, Hk. and Gr. ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., slender, naked, green I 
fr. 4-6 in. 1., 1 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, with 8-12 pinna? on each side, 
lower ones subdeltoid, I-J in. 1., in. br., cut down to the rachis into 
cuneate-flabellate pinnl., the lowest 2 lin. across, sharply toothed on the cl 
edge ; texture, herbaceous ; rachis slender, naked, green ; veins, one ea 
into each tooth ; sori copious, when mature covering nearly the whole u| 
surface of the pinnl. (A. Jimhriatnm, Kze.) Hab. : — Moist rocks, under u| 
Great Noodsberg ; Townhill ; common about Nottingham and Cathkin. 
61. A. rliizophyllum, Kttnze ; st. tufted, 2-6 in. 1., greyish, naked ; fr. 6-1 
