Descriptions of the Species. 
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shaped, on notches in the margin, closely placed all round the 
pinnule, but distinct. 
Cheilanthes pteroides. Swartz Syn. 128 ; Schl. Adum. 48 ; Kunze, 
Linnsea, 10,536, 23,245 ; Pappe and Rawson, 33 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 74 ; 
Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 131. 
Adiantum pteroides. Linn. Sp. 79 4 2 J Thunb. Prod. 173 ; Thunb. FI. 
Cap. 736. 
Adiantopsis. Fee. 
South Africa, Mombasa, and Java. 
In damp shady places among rocks near Cape Town, The 
Paarl, Table Mountain, Tulbagh, &c. Swellendam (Holland). 
A decidedly western fern, but recorded by Lady Barkly from 
Orange Free State, and said by Kuhn to have been found in 
Natal by Gueinzius, though not found there since. Not known in 
eastern district or Kaff. 
31. Cheilanthes Capensis. Swartz. 
Plate XXV. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Crown tufted, procumbent, densely paleaceous, with long rusty 
scales ; frond herbaceous, glabrous, two-pinnatifid, ovate or 
triangular, one to four inches broad, two to four inches long, on a 
dark brown polished stipe two to four inches long, and slightly 
scaly at the base. Pinnae opposite, obtuse, deltoid, sessile, or 
shortly stalked, cut to or near to the mid-rib into two to five pairs 
of entire or lobed rounded oblique, more or less alternate and 
decurrent pinnules, which are serrate when barren, and not re- 
flexed when fertile. Sometimes the lower pinnae are again 
pinnate. Rachis shining black, round, or in the pinnae more or 
less winged. Sori small, closely set all round the pinnules, but 
distinct. Involucre membranaceous, ciliated. 
Kunze makes two varieties, viz. : — 
ci- dentatum. Frond subcoriaceous, stipe and rachis firm, pinnules and 
segment dentate, indusia sub-contiguous. 
/3. crenatum. Frond membranaceous, stipe and rachis slender, pinnules 
and segments sinuato-crenate, sub-emarginate, indusia remote. 
Var. crenatum is the ordinary form. Var. dentatum is 
Burchell’s 5602 and 1015. 
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