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fronds, two to five feet broad, three to eight feet long, on a stout 
stipe two to three feet long, which is more or less rough with 
raised points, or when young set with abundant long spreading 
white hairs below. The fronds, which die down to the ground in 
winter, develop at first as three almost equal and diverging 
branches, but when the central one is fully developed, the frond is 
three to four pinnate in the usual way, with the two first side 
branches as opposite deltoid lower pinnae, two feet long, and one 
to two feet broad. Pinnae distant, and like the secondary pinnae, 
pinnules, and lobes, all opposite or nearly so. Ultimate pinnae 
one to two inches long, three-quarter-inch broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
and bearing six to ten pairs of sessile ovate pinnules, which are 
cut -nearly to the rachis into toothed segments bearing a sorus in 
the bottom of each sinus. Frond thinly herbaceous, when young 
bristling with longish spreading jointed glandular hairs on both 
surfaces, especially on the veins and rachis ; but these fail off the 
stipe and rachis as the frond matures, leaving rough raised points, 
while on the veins they become less noticeable. This may 
account for H. aspera, Presl., mentioned in “ Syn. Fil.,” and by 
Lady Barkly as a form, though Mr. Marquardt does have in culti- 
vation a smaller and more rigid form found on Table Mountain. 
In several Herbaria much cut barren fronds of Hemitelia capensis 
from young plants are marked H. anthriscifolia, Pr., var. aspera. 
Some Natal specimens in Herb. Gub. are almost glabrous. 
Hypolepis anthriscifolia. Presl.; Pappe and Rawson, 37 ; Hk. Sp. 2, 66, 
tab. 95A ; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 10 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 129. 
Cheilanthes anthriscifolia. Schl. Adum. 52 (tab. 32, ined.). 
Dicksonia anthriscifolia. Ivze. Linn. 10, 545 (?). 
Hypolepis sparsisora. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 120. 
Cheilanthes sparsisora. Schrad. Gott. Anz. 1818, 918 ; Kze. Linn. 10, 
542 ; Schl. Adum. 52. 
Hypolepis eckloniana. Fee. 
Hypolepis aspera. Presl. ; Pappe and Rawson, 38. 
Cheilanthes aspera. Kaulf. Linnaea, 6, 186 ; Kze. Linnaea, 10, 544. 
Cheilanthes commutata. Kze. Linnoea, vol. 10, 542. 
Hypolepis elata, Presl., is also stated (“Syn. Fil.,” 129) to 
belong here, though Lady Barkly states that Ch. elata, Kze., No. 
