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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Kuhn gives three species, viz. : — 
1. Pteris glabra. Cape, Natal, and Bourbon. 
2. Pteris natalensis. Kuhn. = L. natalensis, P. and R. Natal, and 
Johanna Island. 
3. Pteris pubescens. Kuhn. — L. pubescens. Willd. = L. hirsuta. Bory. 
Mascerene Islands only. 
SchlechtendaPs otherwise good figure shows sori without 
indusia, though the indusium is described in the text. 
Lonchitis pubescens. Willd ; Hk. Sp. Fil. II. 56 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. 
Fil. 128 ; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 9. 
Lonchitis natalensis. Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 57, t. 89 b ; Pappe and Rawson, 38. 
Lonchitis glabra. Bory. Schl. Adum. 47, t. 27 ; Kunze, Linncea, 10, 
528 ; Kunze, Suppl. to Schk., t. 66 ; Pappe and Rawson, 38 ; Hk. Sp. 
Fil. 2, 57. 
Pteris. Kuhn as above. 
Africa, African Islands, and South America ; growing with us 
in Bush, Coast, or Midland districts. 
West. — Ivnysna (Lady Barkly), George (Holland) (Burchell, 5814). 
East. — Tzitzikamma. P. and R. 
Kaff. — No locality known. Pondoland (Drege). 
Natal. — Kranzkloof, Inanda, Umbilo, Field’s Hill, Great Noodsberg 
(M‘Ken), Umpumulo (Buchanan). 
Genus XII. — Hypolepis. Bernh. 
Sori small, round, equal, situated in the sinus between two 
lobes, or where a sinus might be expected if further divided. 
Indusium membranaceous, covering the capsules. Veins free. A 
small genus closely allied to Cheilanthes, and formerly included in 
it. The sori are placed at the base of the sinus, and terminate a 
side veinlet ; while in Cheilanthes they terminate the principal 
veinlet, i.e. the one leading into a lobe. Most of the species 
belong to the southern tropics, and a few extend to New Zealand, 
and South Africa. 
28. Hypolepis anthriscifolia. Presl. 
Plate XXII. Part of frond, nat. size, b Pinnule, enlarged. 
Rhizome two to four yards long, half-inch diameter, subter- 
ranean, branching occasionally, clothed with brown scales, and 
sending up at intervals of about a foot erecto patent, deltoid 
