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Lower pinnce remote. Stipes and glabrous rachis destitute of 
scales. 
This species much resembles and stands close to Blechnum 
cartilagineum. Sw. 
On the southwest of Graham’s Town, near the blockhouse. (Dr. 
Atherstone, 1856.) v. s. 
xiv. asplenium. Lix. (29 Species.) 
27. Asplenium gemmiferum . Schrad. Fronds pinnate, 
smooth, membranaceous, often gemmiferous towards the 
apex. Pinnce alternate stalked, lanceolate ovate, elongated, 
acute, crenate or sub-serrate, obliquely cuneate and decurrent 
at base. Sori oblong distant. Stipes channelled above and 
scaly below. Caudex paleaceous. Roots densely clothed 
with ferruginous shag. Asplenium lucidum. Schlecht. 
(not Forster), Adumbr., p. 25, table 14, f. 1. 
In the dense forests of the Knysna, Tsitzikamma, and near the 
great cataract of the Omzamcaba River (Natal ) v . s . 
28. Asplenium Prionites . Kze. Fronds pinnate, ovate, 
oblong, coriaceous. Pinnce alternate, stalked, patent, lance- 
olate, acuminate, cuneate at the base, sharply and unequally 
toothed, glabrous; the lowermost shorter, smaller, almost 
auricled. Sori oblong, cushioned, often irregular. Stipes 
angular, rachis winged at the apex, and both of them scaly. 
Rhizome creeping. Linngea, vol. 10, p. 511. 
In Blockhouse-kloof, near Graham’s Town (Dr. Atherstone), 
and in the forests of Natal. (Drege, Gueinzius.) v. s. 
*29. Asplenium discolor . Nob. (N. sp.) Fronds pinnate 
lanceolate, elongated, acuminate, membranaceous smooth, 
sometimes gemmiferous. Pinnce alternate, remote, stalked, 
patent, spreading, oblong-lanceolate, acute, sub-pinnatifid, 
dark green above, paler beneath, cuneate at base. Segments 
confluent at the apex, wedge-shaped, obtuse, 2-crenate re- 
curved, the lowermost remote, decurrent, almost auricled. 
Sori linear-oblong. The channelled stipes and flexuose mar- 
ginate rachises sparingly scaly. Asplenium lucidum . Schlecht., 
var. b. Adumbr., table 14, f. b. 
In the forests of the Knysna (Miss Dalgairns), Albany (Dr. 
Atherstone), and in the mountain-woods near Philipstown, Kat 
River. (Ecklon and Zeyher.) v . s. 
