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rachises and the angular, striped stipes scaly. Schlecht. 
Adumbr., p. 24, t. 13. 
Within the Colony, at places unknown. (Bergius. Mundt.) 
and in a swampy forest 'near Port Natal. (Gueinzius.) 
* 49. Asplenium lobatum. Nob., n. sp. Fronds 2-pinnate, 
membranaceous ; pinnce alternate, shortly stalked, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse ; pinnules obovate-cuneate, inciso-crenate, the 
basal-one broader, remote, 3-lobed. Sori oblong-ovate, con- 
fluent; partial rachises margined, smooth ; stipes slightly scaly. 
In woods of British Kaffraria (Captain Espinasse), Albany 
(Mr. Hutton and Dr. Atherstone), in the Tzitsikamma (Dr. 
Rubidge.) v. s. 
* 50. Asplenium gracile. Nob. n. sp. Fronds 2-pinnate, 
membranaceous, smooth ; pinnce alternate, stalked, patent, 
ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex; pinnules obovate-cuneate 
decurrent, bluntly incised, upper-ones confluent, lowermost 
broader, auricled, stalked. Sori solitary, remote, irregular, 
elliptical. The channelled stipes and flexuose winged rachises 
perfectly naked 
In the primaeval forests of Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s . 
51. Asplenium Dregeanum. Kze. Fronds pinnate linear- 
lanceolate, acute, membranaceous, smooth ; pinnce alternate 
short-stalked, obliquely sub-ovate blunt, those of the apex 
smaller, cuneate-ob ovate ; all of them truncate and more or 
less auricled at the upper, quite entire at the lower base ; 
inciso-pinnatifid at top and the upper margin ; segments 
oblong, rounded, incised, the lowermost wedge-shaped, 2-3- 
fid. Sori solitary ; stipes short ; rachis partly flexuose, sub- 
margined, scaly. Caudex creeping. Kze. Linnaea, vol. 10, 
p. 517. Suppl. to Schkuhr, Tab. 27. 
In a shady valley on a cataract near the Omzamcaba River, 
Natal. (Drege) v. s. 
52. Asplenium Thunbergii. Kze. Fronds pinnate, linear 
lanceolate acuminated, membranaceous ; pinnce alternate, 
ovate-oblong, deeply pinnatifid, erect, somewhat curved, 
blunt; segments oblong-cun eate, entire; lower ones 2-fid; 
lowermost broad lobed. Sori solitary, linear-oblong, sub- 
marginal ; stipes short, channelled ; rachis margined. Kze. 
Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 517. Ccenopteris auriculata Thbg. 
Darea auriculata Willd. 
In forests at Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s. 
