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The Ferns of South Africa. 
alternate above, plain (i.e. not revolute), one to two inches long, 
half to three-quarter inch broad ; lower pinnae more distant, and 
more or less reduced in size ; all ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly 
stalked, and having about six pairs of nearly opposite, widely 
ovate, flat pinnules, rounded at the apex, cut halfway or more into 
about three pairs of rounded or slightly lobed segments. Sori 
three to ten to a segment, almost contiguous, but distinct, one to 
each veinlet, and having only one to three capsules in each, which 
are half covered by the rounded involucres formed of the reflexed 
and slightly crenate margin of the frond, hardly altered in texture. 
Frond abundantly set with white glandular hairs, especially on the 
upper surface, and the involucre is fringed with similar hairs, 
Texture softly herbaceous in shade, more or less coriaceous when 
exposed, but unless very dry, frond and pinnules are always alike 
spread out, or recurved only at the extreme edge. 
Cheilanthes hirta. Swartz; Schl. Adum. 50, tab. 30; Kze. Linncca, 10, 
539, 23, 244 ; Pappe and Rawson, 35 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 72 ; Ilk. and 
Bkr. Syn. Fil. 136. 
C. hirta. Sw. Var. laxa. Kze. Linnsea, 10,539; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 72. 
C. olivacea. Fee. 
C. hirta. Sw. Var. olivacea. Kaff. Ferns, 27. 
Adiantum caffrorum. Sw. Schrad. Jour. 1800, II. 85 (non Linn., 
Thunb., &c.). 
Nothochlaena capensis. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. Suppl. 32. 
Cheilanthes glandulosa. Pappe and Rawson (possibly a form of 
C. parviloba). 
Cheilanthes refracta, P. and R., 95, founded on a Griqualand 
sp., is also given as a synonym here by Lady Barkly, but 
according to their description must be something different. 
Throughout South Africa, extending to the Mascerenes. In Cape 
Colony one of the most frequent and widely distributed ferns, 
growing mostly in the bush or under stones in kloofs, from the 
coast to near the top of the mountains. In Natal also common, 
and I have seen specimens from Orange Free State, Transvaal, 
and Bechuanaland. M‘Lea’s No. 47 (Bolus 17) from Pilgrim’s 
Rest, Transvaal, is three feet long, nine inches broad, much 
