Descriptions of the Species. 
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Cyathea Burkei, Hk., seems to be the same thing grown under 
shade, and consequently of less firm texture, and with the lamina 
of the frond more expanded, less fertile, and less woolly. 
Cyathea Dregei. Kunze, Linn?ea, io, 551 ; Pappe and Rawson, 11 ; 
Kuhn Fil. Afr. 164 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 21. 
C. Burkei. Hk. Sp. 1, 23. 
C. Dregei. Kze. var. Burkei, Pappe and Rawson 11. 
Known only in South Africa, and extending from Kaffraria to 
near the Equator, from 2000 feet alt. upward; native name 
“ Isihihi.” 
Kaff. — Katberg (Holland), Bazija (Baur.), Pondoland (Drege), Toise 
River, Thomas River, Dohne Hill, Hog’s Back, Cathcart, &c. 
Natal. — Umzimkulu (Wood), and abundant from Westville and Umbilo 
Falls to the Drakensberg (M‘Ken, Buchanan). 
Transvaal. — Magalisbergen (Zeyher), Macamac (M‘Lea). 
Genus V. — Hemitelia. Br. 
Tree ferns with long stems, and large spreading fronds in a 
crown at the top. Capsules surrounding a conical receptacle, and 
subtended by the small involucre, which is like a scale under the 
under side of the sorus, with an irregular broken margin. A small 
genus, of which our species is the only one known in Africa, 
though another has been found in Madagascar. The other species 
are distributed through the tropics. 
14. Hemitelia Capensis. Br. 
Plate IX. Plant much reduced, b. Pinnule, nat. size. d. Capsule, magnified, 
c. Abnormal pinnae, nat. size. 
Stem erect, treelike, five to fifteen feet in height, three to six 
inches in diameter, surmounted by a crown of most gracefully 
arching sub-membranaceous fronds, six to nine feet long, two to 
three feet broad, 3-pinnate or 3-pinnatifid, and tapering to both 
ends. When young the stipe and rachis are thickly set with short 
lanceolate dark brown spreading scales, and the mid-rib of the 
pinnules and segments with shorter ovate pointed concave scales. 
As the frond gets older these partially disappear. Pinnae, twelve to 
eighteen inches long, four to six inches broad at the base ; pinnules 
