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13. Vittaria (Tsenitis?) acrostichoid.es. Hook, and Grev., 
Fronds stipitate, coriaceous, lanceolate, blunt ; fertile ones 
linear. Sort submarginal. Hook, and Grev. Icon. Filic., 
tab. 186. Kunze Linn., vol. 10, p. 528. ( Pteropsis angus- 
tifolia. Desv. ?) 
Found somewhere in the colony ; locality however, unknown. 
(Rev. Mr. Thom, Caledon ?) 
14. Hymenophyllum flabellatum. Labil. Fronds flaccid, 
curved, ovate or oblong, acuminate, pinnate ; pinna sharp- 
pointed, pinnatifid ; the lower segments subflabellate, all of 
them blunt or emarginate. Involucres terminal, nearly orbi- 
cular ; valves entire. Stipes round, smooth. Hook. Spec. 
Filic., vol. 1, p. 111. Kaulfuss in Linnaea., vol. 6, p. 187. 
15. Lycopodium ambiguum. Schrad. Leaves arranged in 
6 or 8 rows, scattered, linear-lanceolate, subfalcate, acute, 
quite entire, imbricated, patent. Stems simple, ascending 
from the base. Sclilecht. Adumb., p. 8. 
Habitat not known. (Rev. Mr. Hesse.) 
16. Lycopodium depressum, Sw. Stem branchy; branches 
very short ; leaves in a double row, alternate, ovate, acute, 
obsoletely toothed, patent : stipules leaflike, ciliated. Spikes 
sessile, leafy, oblong. Schlecht. Adumb., p. 8. Spreng. Lin. 
Syst. Yeget. vol. 4, p. 17. 
In conclusion, we have to notice a very singular plant, 
which, for some time, had been mistaken for a Fern. We 
allude to the Lomaria eriopus of Kunze., mentioned in the 
Linnaea., vol. 13, p. 152, and vol. 18, p. 116. It does not 
belong, however, to the Filical tribe, but to the natural order 
of Cycadece , and has been named by Mr. Moore in honour of 
the late Dr. Stanger, Surveyor-General of Natal. Cf. 
Hooker’s Jour, of Bot., and Kew Gard. Miscellany, v. 5, p.228. 
Stangeria paradoxa. T. Moore. (1. c.) Stem simple, erect, 
6-8 inches high, without scars. Frond single, pinnate, cori- 
aceous. Stipes stiff, smooth, 2 feet long, sprinkled with 
numerous minute dots, and clothed with white shag at its 
lower extremity. Pinna opposite, sessile, lanceolate, mar- 
ginate, very veiny, obtuse, unequal at base and decurrcnt on 
the inferior side ; lowermost pinna subpetiolate, patent, all of 
