Descriptions of the Species. 
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or round, placed across the top of the lobes, and not much sunk 
into them. 
A. Capillus-Veneris. Linn. ; Pappe and Rawson, 32 ; Moore, Ind. 21 ; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 62 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 123. 
A. capillus. Kunze, Linnsea, 10. 
A. Africanum. R. Br. ; Lowe. 
A. marginatum. Schr. Gott. Gel. Anz. 1818, 918. 
Throughout the tropics and sub-tropics, and throughout 
Africa ; in moist places by streams. 
West. — Rather rare ; Table Mountain (Lady Barkly), Gnadenthal 
(Breutel). 
East. — Near Grahamstown (Holland), Algoa Bay (Forbes), Graaffreinet 
(Bolus), Bedford, and Kat River. 
Kaff. — Ivomgha (Flanaghan), Main, Transkei (Mrs. Young), in every 
v stream near the lower edge of the forest from Thaba N’doda to Kei 
Road, Stutterheim, Toise River, &c., and often about waterfalls toward 
the Coast ; not seen above 2500 feet. 
Natal. — Common along the Coast ; frequent up to 2000 feet alt., after- 
wards more rare (Buch.). 
Besides the usual form the following varieties occur : — 
Var. / 3 . major, plate XVI. Pinnules very broad, larger than 
the ordinary form, deeply lobed, rather rounded below, but 
tapering a little to the petiole ; most of the pinnules except the 
terminal ones more or less one-sided. 
Var. 7 minor, plate XVII. Fronds as large as in the type, 
but pinnules narrower, and more cuneate ; sori longer, often 
crossing the w T hole pinnule, and then straight. Frond nearly fiat. 
The normal form is intermediate between these two varieties, 
and frequently approaches them. Both the varieties grow in the 
neighbourhood of King William’s Town. 
24. Adiantum Paradises. Baker. 
(Extracted from “ Gardener’s Chronicle,” Nov. 16, 1889, II. 558.) 
“ General habit of A. CEthiopicum, cuneatum, and venustum. 
Stipe and rachis slender, naked, glabrous, brown-black. Frond 
deltoid, tripinnate, glabrous, half-a-foot long and nearly as broad, 
lower pinnae largest, deltoid, unequal sided, cut away on the lower 
side at the base, conspicuously petioled ; ultimate segments 
