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7. Onychium capense. Kaulf. This Fern had been mis- 
taken for a South African plant by former botanists. It is, 
in fact, a native of J apan, and described as Trichomanes ja~ 
ponicum by Thunberg. Onychium japonicum . Kze. 
8. Dicksonia anthriscifolia . Kaulf. Fronds 3-pinnate, 
ample spreading ; pinna ovate-oblong, pinnatifid nearly to 
the costa ; segments oval-oblong, obtuse, dentate, soriferous in 
the axils of the teeth ; rachis glabrous ; costa and veins slightly 
hairy. Hook. Spec. Filic., vol. 1, p. 79, tab. 27 b. Kze. 
Linnaea., vol. 10, p. 545. Cheilanthes anthriscifolia (Willd?) 
Lonchitis anthriscifolia. Bory. (Perhaps identical with Hy~ 
polepis anthriscifolia. Presl.) 
Locality unknown. (Bergius.) 
9. Adiantum thalictroides. Willd. Fronds 3-4-pinnate ; 
upper pinnules stalked, semi-orbicular, cuneate-subtruncate, 
slightly lobed ; lobes emarginate, soriferous ; involucres kid- 
ney-shaped. Stipes roundish, smooth, black-purple, glossy. 
Schlecht. Adumb., p. 53. (Probably a variety of A. cethi- 
opicum. Lin.) 
On the north side of Table Mountain. (Bergius.) 
10. Adiantum rotundatum. Kze. Fronds pinnate, linear- 
lanceolate, smooth ; pinna alternate, stalked, approximate, 
transversely-oblong, subfalcate, blunt ; terminal ones small, 
obovate, truncate at base ; upper edge and apex inciso-lobate ; 
lobes obtuse, toothed at the top ; fertile ones incised ; involucres 
large, reniform ; the base of the glabrous stipes and the 
rachis chaffy. Hook. Spec. Filic., vol. 2, p. 53, Kze. Lin- 
naea, vol. 10, p. 528. 
Locality unknown. 
11. Polypodium cirgentatum . Jacq. Frond 2-pinnatifid, 
smooth, silvery at the underside ; pinna alternate, lanceolate, 
pinnate at the base ; segments lance-shaped, subdentate, 
elongated. Sori clustered in the middle of the disk. Sprengel. 
Lin. System Vegetab., vol. 4, p. 56. 
12. Polypodium tomentosum. Thouars. Fronds 2-pinnatifid 
and, as well as the stipes , shaggy ; pinna alternate, lanceolate ; 
lobes oval, blunt, subcrenate. Sori in one single row on each 
side of the midrib. Spreng. 1. c., p. 59. (Could this be 
Polypodium Bergianum. Schlecht?) 
