Descriptio7is of the Species. 
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fronds received from Drakensberg by Rev. J. Buchanan “ gathered 
beside a spring.” Kuhn doubtfully gives Senegambia as another 
African locality. 
22. Adiantum caudatum. Linn. 
Flate XV. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Crown tufted, frond simply pinnate on a short stipe, lanceolate, 
one inch broad, twelve to eighteen inches long, with the pinnae 
toward the base rather reduced in size, and gradually much 
reduced and more scattered toward the point of the rachis, which 
generally is prolonged into a leafless tail, producing a bud at its 
apex, from which a young plant is developed when it reaches the 
ground. Texture at first very delicate, afterwards firmly 
herbaceous ; colour light green. Stipe and rachis with abundant 
short soft brown hairs, especially at the base. Pinnae with a few 
scattered hairs on both sides, or at the margin only. Pinnae half- 
inch long, quarter-inch broad, shortly stalked, or sessile, one-sided, 
the lower edge entire, arching or straight, at a right angle from the 
rachis ; the point and upper side rounded to where it suddenly 
drops parallel with the rachis. The upper side is cut halfway 
down into three to five emarginate or crenate-rounded lobes, 
which, when fertile, bear the sori in a straight line on their points. 
Sori not sunk. 
South Asia, Tropical Africa, and Mascerene islands, gathered 
in Transvaal by Mr. Todd, of Inanda, and a plant of it, recently 
found near Barberton, is growing in Mr. John Wood’s garden at 
Grahamstown. 
Cape Colony is credited with it in “ Syn. Fil.,” but I have 
heard of no locality there. 
A. rotundatum, Kze., described from a specimen in Maire’s 
Herbarium labelled “ Promentorum Bon Spei,” seems to be a 
large glabrous form of A. caudatum, paleaceous only at the base 
of the stipe, and with reniform sori. It differs in texture and 
colour from A. lunulatum, as well as in the shape of the sori. 
