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quite entire. Stipes glossy, stramineous. Campteria Rottle- 
riana. (Presl.?) Pteris nemoralis. Willd. (?) 
In shady localities and clifts. Magalisberg. (Zeyher.) ; in the 
forests of Natal. (Plant.) v. s. 
Very like Pteris Catoptera. Kze., but sufficiently different by 
the venation. 
xxm. allosorus. bernh. (8 Species.) 
81. Allosorus hastatus. Presl. Fronds 2 or sometimes 3- 
pinnate at the lower extremity ; pinnae and pinnules stalked, 
alternate, ovate-lanceolate, blunt, eared, or 3-lobed at base, 
notched, smooth or downy at the ribs , crenate and revolute 
at the margin. Stipes half round, channelled on the upper 
side, glabrous, glossy or paleaceous, and covered at its base 
with large linear-acute black-purplish scales. Pteris auricu- 
lata. Thbg. Pteris hastata. Schlecht. A dumb,, page 42. 
Cheilanthes hastata. Kze. Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 532. 
In the forests of Swellendam, George, Uitenhage, Albany, &c. 
v. s. 
Of this very variable Fern, the following two are the most 
striking forms. 
1st var. macrophylla. Kze. Fronds pinnate, or some- 
times 2-pinnate at base ; pinnae and pinnules ovate, cordate, 
or sub-hastate, somewhat falcate, auricled, very smooth, often 
3* inches long and 2-J inches broad. Linnaea, vol. 10, p.532. 
In the aboriginal forests of the Krakakamma. (Eckl. & Zey- 
her), and at Natal (Gueinzius. Plant.) v. s. 
2nd var. stenophylla. Kze. Fronds 2-pinnate ; pinnae 
and pinnules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrow, hastate, 
middle lobe elongated, nearly two inches long ; petioles short, 
and as well as the rachises , downy. Kze. Linnaea, 1. c. p. 533. 
Pteris hastaefolia. Schrad. 
Near Philipstown, Kat River. (Eckl. &Zeyh.) v. s. 
82. Allosorus Calomelanos. Presl. Fronds 2-pinnate, or 3- 
pinnate in the lower half ; pinnae and pinnules stalked, alter- 
nate, 3-angular-cordate, obtuse ; terminal ones cordate, often 
5-angular, all of them coriaceous, smooth. Stipes flexuose, 
slightly paleaceous at base, and like the rachises brittle, 
polished and ebenous. Caudex tufted, sub-globose, and 
thickly clothed with narrow ferruginous scales ; roots fibrous. 
