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patent, oblong, acuminate, flexuose or curved; secondary 
pinnules sessile, divergent, ovate oblong, blunt, sub-auriculate, 
slightly pinnatifid : segments ovate, rounded, rather notched. 
Rachises and the short stipes angular, flexuose, covered with 
rufous down. Pteris coriifolia. Kze. Linntea, vol 18, p. 
120 . 
In the dense woods of Natal (Gueinzius.) 
87. Allosorus capensis. Presl. Fronds 2-3-pinnate, cori- 
aceous, hairy on the under surface ; upper pinnules entire or 
auricled at base, lower ones, divided down to the mid-rib ; 
segments adnate, confluent at top ; margins of the pinnce and 
their segments , inflexed, crenulated ; involucres fringed. The 
very robust stipes as well as the rachises muricated. Cau- 
dex descendant, woolly. Pteris capensis. Thbg. Schlecht. 
Adumb., p. 45. 
Common in woody, rough, stony places, &c., in all parts of South 
Africa, v. v. and s. 
88. Allosorus aquilinus. Presl. Fronds 3-partite coriace- 
ous ; branches 2 -pinnate; pinnules sub-sessile, linear- lanceo- 
late, the superior ones undivided, the inferior ones pinnatifid ; 
segments remote, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse. Stipes smooth. 
Pteris aquilina . Lin. Schkuhr. Filic. Tab. 95. 
In a forest on the sources of the Kat River near Philiptown. 
(Eckl. & Zeyher.) 
XXIV. CRYPTOGRAMMA. R. BR. (1 Species.) 
*89. Cryptogramma robusta. Nob. Fertile frond 3 inches 
high, 2 -pinn ate-pinnatifid, oblong, smooth ; pinnules and 
segments oblong-ovate, blunt, wedge-shaped at base. Rachises 
and the short channelled stipes curved or flexuose, purple, 
glabrous. Caudex stout, creeping, paleaceous. Allosorus 
robustus. Kze. Linnsea, vol. 10, p. 502. 
Between rocks near Goedemanskraal, Namaqualand. (Drege.) 
v. s. 
XXY. ADIANTUM. LIN. (2 Species.) 
90. Adiantum Capillus Veneris. Lin. Frond 3-4-pinnate 
ovate ; pinnules delicately membranaceous, smooth, obliquely 
broad cuneate, tapering into a slender stalk ; the superior 
edge deeply and irregularly inciso-lobate ; lobes obtuse or 
truncate, soriferous. Sori as broad as the lobes, oblong or 
