Descriptions of the Species. 
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inch long, each bearing a nearly terminal sorus, surmounted on 
the lower side by a rounded wing of lamina. Involucre shortly 
cup shaped, as wide as the pinnule. Sometimes the habit is closer 
than figured, and the pinnules only half a line broad and sur- 
mounted — candelabra fashion — by the wider saucer-shaped in- 
volucres. 
Davallia concinna, Schrad. Kze., Linnma, 13-152; Schl. Adum. 55; 
Pappe and Rawson, 25 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. Ed. I, 100. 
Davallia thecifera, H.B.K. ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. Ed. II. 100. 
Davallia campyloptera, Kunze, Linnrna, 10, 544 ; Suppl. to Schk. Fil. t. 
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Davallia Schimperi, Hk. Sp. 1, 193. 
Asplenium concinnum, Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 99. 
Asplenium theciferum, Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 117. 
Loxoscaphe concinnum, and theciferum, Moore. 
South America, Africa, and African Islands. 
This is very like Asplenium rutaefolium in habit, habitat, 
cutting, and texture, and probably often passed as such, but the 
involucre here is almost terminal and compressed cup-shaped, 
while in the Asplenium it opens along the side of the pinnule as a 
marginal slit, and is longer than deep. 
Epiphytal on trees, mostly inland. 
West. — Knysna (Lady Barkly), Plettenberg’s Bay (P. and R.), George, 
Klein Bosch Rivier (Drege). 
East. — Brookhuizen’s Poort, and Blockhouse Kloof (Dr. Atherstone), 
Zwart Hoogdens, near Grahamstown (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Miss Hartzenberg), Fort Beaufort (Holland), Main. 
Transkei (Mrs Young), Toise River, and rare in Evelyn Valley, Perie. 
Natal. — Umpumulo, Ivarkloof (Buchanan), Maritzburg, Richmond, 
Nottingham, Cathkin (M‘Ken). 
Transvaal. — Houtbosch (Dr. Rehmann, 5606). 
Genus VIII. — Cystopteris. Bernh. 
Small delicate ferns, having the sori covered by a scale-like 
indusium attached under the capsules on the lower side, and at 
first swollen, and turned hood-like over them, but afterwards burst 
at the point into several irregular lobes, and soon almost hid by 
the capsules. A small genus, belonging to the north temperate 
zone, and only represented south of it by our only species. 
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