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XLI. OLFERSIA. RADDI. (2 Species.) 
133. Olfersia angnstata. Presl. Frond oblong, blunt, 
smooth, tapering down into a long stipes ; fertile one longer 
and narrower. Caudex creeping, clothed with broad fulvous 
scales. Acrostichum angustatum. Schr. Schlecht. Adumb., 
p. 14, tab. 5. 
In clefts of rocks on the east side of Table Mountain, at Hotten- 
tot’s Holland, Caledon, Swellendam, George, &c. v. v. and s . 
134. Olfersia conf or mis. Presl. Frond oblong, acute, glab- 
rous on the upper, paler and slightly scaly on the under 
surface, tapering down into a stalk, entire; fertile one some- 
what longer. Caudex creeping, paleaceous. Acrostichum 
conf or me. Sw. 
On the face of rocks on Table Mountain, at Caledon, Swellen- 
dam, in Albany, &c. v. s. 
xlii. acrostichum. lin. (1 Species.) 
135. Acrostichum inaequale. Willd. Frond pinnate, coria- 
ceous, smooth ; pinnae alternate, lanceolate-oblong, quite 
entire, unequally wedge-shaped at base ; all of them blunt, 
terminated by a hard short point. Willd. Enum. Plant, vol. 5, 
p. 117. 
In marshy soil near the Natal coast. (Dr. F Krauss, Plant.) 
v. s. 
XII. HYMENOPHYLLEJE. Endl. 
XLIII. HYMENOPHYLLUM. SM. (2 Species.) 
136. Hymenophyllum tunbridgense. Sw. Fronds pinnate, 
small, tender, quite smooth ; pinnae distichous, pinnatifid ; 
segments linear, truncate, entire or 2-fid, and as well as the 
supra-axillary, solitary, compressed involucres, spinuloso-ser- 
rate ; the valves semi-orbicular; rachis winged above. Stipes 
filiform procumbent. Hook, Spec. Filic., vol. 1, p. 95. 
Schkuhr’s Filic., tab. 135. d. 
In shady, moist places between rocks on Table Mountain, at 
Hottentot’s Holland, &c. v. v. and s. 
137. Hymenophyllum rarum. R. Br. Fronds pinnate, 
flaccid, decompound, linear oblong ; pinnae pinnatifidly incised; 
segments entire, obtuse, erect ; involucres rhomboid, wedge- 
shaped at their lower half, the upper forming two semicir- 
cular entire compressed valves. Stipes slender. Hook. Spec. 
