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109. Hypolepis aspera. Prl. Fronds 3-pinnate, sub- 
coriaceous ; primary pinnce alternate, lanceolate, curved, erect, 
stalked ; pinnules sub-sessile or shortly petioled, lance-shaped, 
pinnatifi do incised ; segments sub-dentate ; rachis rough; sori 
solitary at the superior base of the segments ; involucres sub- 
reniform. Stipes almost smooth, glossy. Caudex creeping, 
shaggy ; roots filiform. Cheilanthes aspera , Kaulf. Linnaea, 
vol. 6, p. 186. Hook., 1. c., p. 67. 
In shady localities near the cataract on the Devil’s Mountain, 
near Genadendal (Caledon), in the forests of George, Albany, &c. 
v. v. and s. 
XXVIII. LONCHITIS. LIX. 
110. Lonchitis natalensis. Hook. Fronds 2-pinnate, mode- 
rately hairy on both sides ; pinnce more or less stalked, the 
upper half, pinnatifid ; pinnules sessile, broad lanceolate, 
acuminate, nearly entire or somewhat lobed in the lower half; 
lobes rounded, undivided, short, the sinuses and entire mar- 
gins soriferous ; sori small. Stipes and rachis downy. Hook. 
Spec. Filic., vol. 2, p. 57, tab. 89. B. 
In the primaeval forests of Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s . 
111. Lonchitis glabra . Bory. Fronds 2-pinnate membra- 
naceous, with scattered fulvous hairs on the stipes, rachis, 
mid-rib, and veins on both sides ; pinnce sessile oblong-ovate, 
acuminate, pinnatifid at the apex ; pinnules lanceolate, 
obtuse, lobed or pinnatifid, all of them decurrent, so as to 
constitute a broadly-winged rachis to the pinnae ; the inferior 
pinnule above (next to the main rachis), dwarfish ; lobes 
round, entire ; sinuses soriferous ; sori small, lunate. 
Stipes paleaceous at the base. Schlecht. Adumbr. p. 47. 
Hook, 1. c. p. 57. Kunze Suppl. to Schkuhr, tab. 66. 
In the forests of the Tzitsikamma (Mundt, Dr. Alexander, Dr. 
Rubidge) at Natal. (Drege.) v. s. 
VII. VITTARlACEiE. Pkesl. 
xxix. vittaria. sm. (1 Species.) 
112. Vittaria lineata. Sw. Fronds linear, narrow, very 
long, membranaceous, pendulous. Sori solitary, intermarginal. 
Caudex bulbose, shaggy ; roots fibrous. Schlecht. Adumbr., 
p. 33. Schkuhr. Filic., tab. 101 b. 
In woods near Swellendam (Mundt), in the forests of George 
(Drege.), in Blockhouse Kloof, near Graham’s Town (Dr. Ather- 
stone), and at Natal (Gueinzius.) v. s. 
