Descriptions of the Species. 
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section Eu-hypolepis, characterised by wide-creeping rhizome, in 
which it is included in “ Syn. Fil. ; ” but frequently in cultivation 
young plants spring up from adventitious buds on the roots, 
especially where the roots come to the surface at the edge of a 
pot. 
Hypolepis bergiana. Hk. Sp. 2, 67 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 130. 
Cheilanthes bergiana. Schl. Adum. 51 (tab. 31 ined.) ; Ivunze, Linncea, 
10, 541 ; Pappe and Rawson, 34 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 69. 
Cheilanthes elata. Ivze. Linn. 10, 542. ) See synonyms of 
Hypolepis elata. Presl. Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 67. 1 H. anthriscifolia. 
Found only in South Africa, north to Zambesia ; growing in 
moist but not wet places in the forest. 
West. — Swellendatn, George (P. and R.), Ivoratra (Drege), Knysna 
(Burchell, 5218 and 5417). 
East. — Ivat River (Holland), Bedford (Miss Cook), Uitenhage, &c. 
Kaff. — Abundant all along the forest, and in bush at Peddie, Toise River, 
Dohne, &c. ; also Komgha (Flanagan), and in Transkei at Bazija 
(Baur.), and Main (Mrs. Young). 
Natal. — Buckingham, Esidumbeni, Kruisfontein, Maritzburg (M'Ken) 
2000 to 3000 feet, Umpumulo (Buchanan). 
Genus XIII. — Cheilanthes. Sw. 
Small herbaceous or subcoriaceous ferns, having small round 
marginal sori on the points of the lobes, or crowded all round the 
edge of the frond, except at the sinuses. The sori are terminal on 
the veins, and at first quite separate, though afterwards more or 
less confluent ; but the indusia are roundish and separate. This 
distinguishes them from Pellaea, but some species bear fronds 
showing the characters of both genera on the same plant. From 
Nothochlaena they are more difficult to distinguish, as the indu- 
sium is formed of the reflexed margin of the frond, often hardly 
changed in texture, and sometimes only partly reflexed ; while in 
Nothochlaena, which corresponds in habit, the sori are without 
indusia, though the margin is sometimes more or less reflexed. 
The separation of the ferns into indusiate and non-indusiate, is 
here, as in several other cases, felt to be a purely artificial arrange- 
ment, as any natural arrangement would unite these two genera, 
or bring them into juxtaposition. The Cheilanthes are widely 
