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with blackish scales. Aspidium luctuusum. Kze., vol. 10, p. 
548. 
In a mountain kloof at Bedford (Dr. Atherstone) on the wood- 
clad mountains near Philipstown, Kat River (Bartels, Ecklon, and 
Zeyher), in the forests of British Kaffraria. (Captain Espinasse) v. s. 
19. Polystichum angular e. Presl. Frond 2-3-pinnate, 
rigid, coriaceous, acuminate, glossy above, paler beneath ; 
pinna alternate, distant, stalked, spreading, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, pinnate, pinnatifid at the apex, perfectly smooth ; 
pinnules alternate oblong-lanceolate deeply incised, sharp- 
pointed, cuneate at the base, the lowermost lobe or segment 
3-4 toothed, largest, eared. Sori small, solitary in the axils 
of the indentations. Rachises and the angular-furrowed stipes 
fringed sparingly with short scales. Aspidium angular e, 
Kitaibl. 
In swamps near the Natal coast. (Gueinzius. Plant.) v. s. 
20. Polystichum coriaceum. Schott. Fronds 3-pinnate, 
eoriaceous ; pinnules ovate, wedge-shaped at the base, bluntly 
serrate, smooth ; lower-ones pinnatifid, upper ones confluent. 
Sori solitary, placed near the bases of the serratures. Stipes 
and margined rachises glabrous ; rhizome thick, horizontally 
creeping, clothed with broad ferruginous scales. Aspidium 
coriaceum . Sw. Schkuhr, Filic., Tab. 50. 
Common in moist woody localities all over the Colony, as well 
as in the forests of Kaffraria and Natal. — v . v . and s. 
ix. cyrtomium. presl. (1 Species.) 
21. Cyrtomium falcatum. Presl. Fronds pinnate, smooth 
coriaceous ; pinna shortly stalked, alternate, broad ovate, 
rounded at the base, falcate, acuminate, distant, blunt, 
repando-crenate or serrate, the terminal one tri-lobed. 
Sori globose, copious, scattered. Stipes scaly. Aspidium 
falcatum . Sw. 
In the aboriginal forests of British Kaffraria. (Captain Espi- 
nasse, 1856.) v. s. 
X. DIDYMOCHLiENA. DESY. (I Species.) 
22. Didymochlana dimidiata . Kze. Frond 2-pinnate, 
coriaceous ; pinna approximate stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 
patent, erect ; pinnules dimidiate obliquely ovate ; the supe- 
rior margin sinuato-crenate, revolute, soriferous ; the inferior 
one entire, here and there bristly along the costa. Stipes and 
