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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Cheilanthes Capensis. Swartz. Syn. 128; Schl. Adum. 48, tab. 28; 
Pappe and Rawson, 33 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 70 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 
132 (not C. Capensis, Ecklon). 
Adiantum Capense. Thunb. prod. 173 ; Thunb. FI. Cap. 736; Swartz, 
Schrad. Jour. 1800, II. 85 ; Kze. Linnsea, 10, 530. 
Hypolepis Capensis. Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 71, t. 77 c. 
South Africa only ; growing in shady localities in the southern 
district, but rare in Kaff. and Natal. 
West. — Common near Cape Town, Goukamma, near Knysna (Burchell, 
5602), Tulbagh Kloof (Burchell, 1015), also Swellendam (Holland), 
Rondebosch (Bergins), Clan William and Stellenbosch (Ecklon), 
Namaqualand, and Ruigtevallei (Drege). 
East. — Algoa Bay (Forbes), Van Staadens^River (Browning), Graaffreinet 
(Bolus), Boschberg (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Chumie Forest, Alice (Mrs. Young). 
Natal. — Eland’s Kop, Mooi River, 5000 feet alt. (Buch.). 
Transvaal. — (Lady Barkly). 
32. Cheilanthes depauperata. Baker. (In “Annals of 
Botany,” Vol. V., No. XVIII.) 
Plate XXVI. Fig. 1. Natural size. b Pinna, when dry. c Pinna, 
enlarged, d Pinna of wider form, natural size. 
Rhizome shortly running, with tufted crown, set with numerous 
brown scales. Stipe wiry, glabrous below, slightly viscose above, 
four inches long. Frond two-pinnate, six to eight inches long, 
half to three-quarter inch broad, with twenty to twenty-five deltoid 
or three to five foliate pinnae, sessile above, stalked below. 
Pinnules linear, one to two lines long, half-line broad, with the 
edges inturned in lobes of same texture, without separate invo- 
lucre, and the underside densely set with rufous tomentum, with 
a few scattered whitish hairs mixed. Upper surface nearly 
glabrous. Pinnules when dry all very much recurved downward 
like birds’ claws ; when fresh they are flat. General aspect is like 
one elongated pinna of C. parviloba, but tomentose below, and as 
in it, the pinnules drop off, leaving the short petioles dry. 
In Herb. Gub. a specimen in the Barkly collection from Hex 
River and one from Namaqualand (Herb. MacOwan) belong to 
