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Stipes short, scaly at its base. Blechnum punctulatum . 
Schlecht. Adumbr., p. 37, tab. 21 and 22, fig. 2. Lo maria 
densa. Kaulf., I. c., p. 151. 
Common in moist, shady places throughout the colony and 
Natal v. v. and s. 
77. Lomaria pumila. Kaulf. Fronds pinnate, smooth ; 
sterile pinnae alternate, sessile, oblong, obtuse, submucronate, 
auric ulato-cordate, scabrous at the margins ; fertile ones 
linear-lanceolate, falcate, mucronate. Stipes short, and at its 
base, as well as the creeping caudex paleaceous. Kaulf. 
Enum. Filic., p. 151. Blechnum australe . Schlecht., p. 38. 
Schkuhr., Filic., tab. 1 1 0, b. 
Common between rocks and moist mountainous spots in almost 
all parts of the colony; also at Natal, v. v. and s. 
78. Lomaria Spicant. Desv. Fronds pinnate, destitute of 
scales ; sterile pinnae lanceolate, pectinato-pinnatifid ; segments 
alternate, linear-lanceolate, rather blunt, entire, somewhat 
falcated, the lowermost rounded, short, remote, uppermost 
confluent ; fertile pinnae pinnate ; pinnae linear, narrow, acu- 
minate ; involucres curled. Stipes scaly at base. Blechnum 
boreale . Lin. Schlecht. Adumb., p. 38. Schkuhr. Filic., 
tab. 110. 
Found somewhere’in the colony. (Mr. Riche.) 
* 79. Lomaria decipiens . Nob. N. sp. (?) Sterile fronds 
deeply pinnatifid, smooth ; segments alternate, oblong, obtuse, 
quite entire ; lower ones short, rounded ; terminal one elongated, 
lanceolate, acuminate ; all of them dotted at the margin. 
Fertile fronds unknown. 
A puzzling species, and perhaps the juvenile plant of Lomaria 
heterophylla, Desv., but very close also to L. Spicant. 
Near Graham’s Town, parasitical on the caudex of Alsophila 
capensis (Dr. A.therstone), and between crevices of rocks near the 
mouth of the Klein River, Caledon. (Zeyher.) v. s. 
XXII. CAMPTERIA. PRESL. (1 Species.) 
80. Campteria biaurita. Hook. Fronds pinnate, mem- 
branaceous, smooth ; pinnce } sub-opposite, sessile, pinnatifid, 
lanceolate oblong, acute (bearing short stipule-like spines on 
the midrib of the upperside), lowermost 2-par tite ; segments 
confluent, oblong, blunt and rounded at the apex, all of them 
