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The Ferns of South Africa. 
97 of Rawson Herb., is H. Bergiana, and Kuhn gives the name as 
a synonym of that species. 
In general appearance it is not unlike the common Bracken, 
but grows in dense masses, in wet sunny glades in the forest. 
South Africa, and Mascerene islands. 
West. — Plettenberg’s Bay (P. and R.), Kaatjes Kraal, Knysna (Burchell, 
5277), Table Mountain (Mr. Marquardt), Devil’s Mountain (Guthrie), 
Grenadendal, George, &c. (P. andR.). 
East. — Somerset East (Guthrie), Grahamstown (Holland), Boschberg 
(MacOwan), Zuurberg, &c. 
Kaff. — Perie Forest, Mount Kemp, Frankfort, &c. 
Natal. — Great Noodsberg, Inanda, Field’s Hill, Maritzburg, and 
Swartkop (M‘Ken), Umbilo Falls, Umpumulo (Buchanan), Midlands 
(Wood). 
29. Hypolepis bergiana. Hk. 
Plate XXIII. Nat. size, b Pinnule. 
Crown tufted, set with lanceolate brown scales. Frond 
triangular, three-pinnate or four-pinnatifid, herbaceous, four to 
eighteen inches long and broad, on a rusty brown stipe four to 
twelve inches in length, which is paleaceous at the base only, but 
thickly set throughout with very short spreading or recurved 
glandular jointed hairs. Rachis and mid-ribs tomentose with 
similar hairs, and both surfaces of the frond are villose with short 
white glandular hairs. Lower pinnae much largest, deltoid ; 
secondary pinnae on the lower side larger than those on the upper 
side, and the same is the case with the pinnules. Pinnules ovate, 
a quarter to three-quarter-inch long, cut to or near to the mid-rib 
into oblong, obtuse, entire, or lobed segments, bearing rounded 
sori along each side. . The indusium is thin and membranaceous, 
and the sori are sometimes placed along the edges of the pinnules 
as in Cheilanthes, in which genus it was placed by Pappe and 
Rawson ; but in Cheilanthes they are most abundant toward the 
points of the lobes and pinnules, while here they are most regular 
in or near the sinus, or where a sinus might be expected if the 
frond were further divided. 
This plant has no rhizome, and therefore seems out of place in 
