FEBNS OF NATAL. 
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iUricled, the point narrowed gradually, sometimes sliglitly toothed ; texture 
loriaccous ; veins fine and parallel, midrib beneath more or less chaffy ; fertile 
linn® narrowly linear, distant, 4-6 in. 1., \ in. br. ; raehis stout, erect, more or 
ess scaly ; invol. broad membranaceous, ciliated, sometimes slightly intramarginal. 
r j. Capensis , Willd. Hab. : — Beside streamlets, Krautzkloof ; Attercliffe ; 
h3reytown ; Krantzkop ; and Inanda. 
42. L. JBoryana, Willd. ; caud. stout, erect, 1-2 ft. high, woody, densely 
ilothed with dark coloured, firm linear-subulate scales ; st. stout, erect, 4 to 6 in. 
. ; barren fr. ovate, 1-2 ft. 1 ., 6-8 in. br. ; pinnae close-placed, erecto-patent, lanceo- 
.ate, narrowed gradually to the point, narrowed and sometimes auricled at tho 
Dase, 3-6 in. 1., i in. or rather more br. ; texture coriaceous ; veins inconspicuous ; 
’ertile pinnae narrow, linear, rather close ; invol. brown, membranaceous, fim- 
eriated, sometimes slightly intramarginal. (L. Magellanica, Desv.) Hab. : — 
i Around springs in open land, Inanda ; Noodsberg ; Grey town. A variety, 
.vith erect ears to the lower pinn., on the hills above Decpdene, Richmond. 
Gen. 34. — Blechnum, L. 
' Sori linear, continuous, or nearly so, parallel with, and usually contiguous to the 
midrib. Invol. membranaceous, distinct from the edge of the frond ; veins 
usually free. 
43. B. auslrale, Linn. ; caud. stout, creeping, scaly ; st. erect 4-6 in 1. ; fr. 
3-18 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., lanceolate, narrowed towards both ends; pinn® numerous, 
spreading, the sterile ones 1.1 in. 1., in. br., linear, narrowed to a sharp point, 
hastate-cordate, or auricled at the base, especially on the upper side, quite dis- 
tinct, the lower ones passing down into mere auricles; texture rigid and coria- 
ceous ; veins hidden ; racliis and both surfaces naked ; fertile pinn® narrower ; 
- sori in a continuous or slightly interrupted line not quite contiguous to the mid- 
rib, sometimes reaching the edge. Hab. : — Dry rocky shady places ; Little 
Noodsberg ; Greytown ; Nottingham ; Cathkin. 
Gen. 38. — Asplenitjm, Linn. (Spleenwort.) 
'Sori dorsal or submarginal, linear or oblong. Invol. similar in shape, straight, 
or occasionally curved, single or double, plane or tumid, bursting along 
the outer edge. 
44. A. Kraussii, Moore ; st. tufted, slender, green, 1 in. 1. ; fr. 3-4 in 1., f in. 
br. linear, with about twelve pairs of sessile pinn® on each side, which are under 
A in. each way, cuneato-flabellate or subrhomboidal in general outline, the upper 
and outer edge sharply toothed, the lower straight and entire ; texture herbace- 
ous ; raehis green, veins flabellate ; sori linear-oblong, 1-3 to a pinna, oblique. 
Hab. : — Rocks and rocky places, under bush, Mooi River and Nottingham. 
45. A. Sandersoni, Hk. ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., green, slightly fibrillose ; fr. 6-9 
in. 1., in. br., linear, often gemmiferous at the apex, with twelve to twenty 
horizontal dimidiate pinn® on each side, which are deeply crenate on the upper 
