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•primary pinna lanceolate, lower ones opposite, distant ; pin- 
nules oblong or pinnatifid-ovate or crenulate, the lobes with 
the margins recurved, soriferous ; sori numerous, confluent. 
Stipes short, purplish-brown, glossy, very hairy, and more or 
less glandular, shaggy at the base with long subulate scales. 
Caudex almost creeping ; roots tufted. Schlecht Adumbr. p. 
50. Kze. Linnaea., vol. 10, p. 539. Hook, 1. c., p. 92, tab 
101, b. 
Extremely changeable in form, according to the very different 
habitats of the species. 
The following are the principal varieties enumerated by 
Kunze, 1. c. 
1st var. contracta. Frond 2-pinnate, rather rigid, often 
curved ; pinnules approximate, oblong, erect; larger pin- 
nules folded, and thickly clothed with rufous shag ; stipes 
and caudex more or less smooth at base. 
2nd var. intermedia . Frond 2-pinnate ; pinnce short, 
ovate, and as well as the minute and plane pinnules approxi- 
mate; base of the stipes and caudex closely surrounded by 
long scales. 
3rd var. laxa. Frond 2-3-pinnate ; pinnce and pinnules 
oblong-lanceolate, plane, remote, pinnatifid and incised ; 
stipes and rachises fringed with rufous hairs. Notholcena 
capensis. A. Sprengel. Suppl. ad. Lin. Syst. Yegetab. p. 32. 
4th var. parviloba. Frond 2-3-pinnate, calvescent, pinna 
lanceolate, elongated, distant ; pinnules sub 3-lobed or 
auricled at base ; lobes obtuse, convolute, middle one linear- 
oblong ; stipes slightly paleaceous at base ; rachis paleaceo- 
hirsute. Ckeilanthes parviloba. Sw. 
In rocky, shady, or open situations, and widely diffused over 
the whole of South Africa, v. v. and s. 
* 100. Ckeilanthes glandulosa. Nob. (N. sp.) Frond 2-3- 
pinnate, sub-coriaceous, linear-lanceolate ; primary pinna 
remote, sub-opposite at base, alternate above, erect, pinnate, 
shortly stalked, oblong-ovate, obtuse, rough and opaque on 
the upper, paler and almost smooth on the under surface ; 
pinnules subsessile, oblong, deeply lobed, blunt ; lobes with 
the margins recurved, soriferous; sori copious, confluent. 
Stipes and rachises purple, fringed with delicate glandular 
shag. 
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