Descriptions of the Species. 
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naked yellowish stalk six inches long, channelled along the front, 
and jointed to the rhizome. Rachis and rachis of pinnae resemb- 
ling the stalk, slightly winged only toward the point. Pinnae 
alternate, stalked, deltoid, the lower four to six inches long, two to 
four inches broad at the base, others smaller upward. Secondary 
pinnae stalked, alternate, deltoid, and having five to seven pairs ot 
alternate, shortly stalked, ovate, pinnules, which are cut to, or near 
to the mid-rib, into cuneate five to seven lobed segments, each 
bearing one or more sori at the apex. Frond glabrous, sub- 
coriaceous, and firm. Involucre pouch-like, leathery, brown, open 
only at the top, rather longer than wide, terminal on the segments, 
and surmounted on each side by a point of lamina. Capsules on 
stalks from the bottom of the involucre. A specimen in Albany 
Museum is eighteen inches broad and eighteen inches long 
without stipe, finely cut, and rather sparse. 
Kuhn gives this as D. denticulata, Mett (D. elegans, Sw.), 
var. intermedia, Mett, and M‘Ken’s D. elegans is said by 
Buchanan to be the same thing, while Lady Barkly calls it a 
variety, but gives no characters, and M ‘Ken’s description is from 
“ Syn. Fil.,” and not from his own plant. 
D. nitidula. Kunze, Linnasa, 10, 545 ; Pappe and Rawson, 24 : Ilk. and 
Bki. Syn. Fil. 97. 
D. denticulata, Mett, var. intermedia, Mett ; Kuhn Fil. Afr. 158. 
Trichomanes Chserophylloides, Poir. 
Found on trunks of trees, &c., in sub-tropical South Africa 
only. 
Kafifraria. — St. John’s River (Sir H. Barkly), Pondoland (Drege). 
Natal. — Coast Bush, and at Umzinyati Falls, and at Umlass, scarce 
(Wood), Kearsney (Buchanan). 
17. Davallia Spelunc^e. Baker. 
Plate XI. Natural size, b Pinnule, enlarged, c Sorus, enlarged. 
Rhizome creeping, frond three pinnatifid, flaccid, softly 
herbaceous in texture, three to four feet long, one to three feet 
broad, deltoid, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate on a straw-coloured, 
herbaceous stalk one to two feet long. Pinnae lanceolate from a 
