Descriptions of the Species. 
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this species. Baker gives as locality “ Central Karroo region 
(Sir H. Barkly, Bolus),” and places it after No. 15 in “ Syn. Fil.,” 
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Another specimen (named C. hirta-parviloba, smaller sp. only) 
which I cannot distinguish from this, has alternate pinnae one inch 
apart, one inch long, quarter-inch broad, and with six to nine 
pairs of linear-lobed pinnules, half-line or less broad, one to two 
lines long, all coated underneath with rusty scales and tomentum. 
C. hirta, var. cornuta, of the Herb. Gub., which seems to be 
Pappe and Rawson’s C. cornuta, Kze., must also be referred here, 
though approaching more nearly the ordinary compact form of 
C. hirta, to which this species as a whole stands in much the same 
relation as does C. parviloba; only that this is densely tomentose 
below. Baker includes C. cornuta, Kze., in Pellaea involuta, Bkr., 
except Ecklon’s plant described by Mettenius (Cheil., No. 33), 
the identity of which he doubts. Pappe and Rawson’s description 
would not exclude the present species, but Kunze remarks : — 
“ Species not to be compared with any, unless with the small 
contracted form of Pellaea hastata, but the rigidity of the fronds, 
sub-linear form, and spreading sori, easily distinguish it.” 
This refers rather to C. involuta, and I have therefore taken 
Baker’s name for the present species. Baker describes the frond 
as four to six inches long, quarter to one-third of an inch broad 
with stipe three to four inches long, and omits mention of the 
tomentum, but, as shown above, more specimens are yet required 
to show the limits of the species. 
33 Cheilanthes hirta. Swartz. 
Plate XXVII. Nat. size, b Fertile pinnule, enlarged, c Section of same, 
d Glandular hairs from rachis. 
Crown procumbent, with abundant rusty brown lanceolate 
scales. Frond three-pinnatifid, lanceolate, six to eighteen inches 
long, one to four inches broad, on a dark brown stipe three to six 
inches long, more or less scaly at the base, and like the rachis and 
veins, thickly set with soft spreading, jointed, glandular white 
hairs, which in old fronds become rusty. Pinnae opposite below, 
