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The Ferns of South Africa. 
shining green glabrous pinnules, which are triangular, half-inch or 
less long, and as much broad at the base : cut to the mid-rib into 
one to two pairs of ovate-toothed segments lying parallel to the 
rachis ; above these the pinnule is contracted into an ovate-oblong 
lobe, two lines tong, one line broad, rounded at the apex, and with 
five to seven teeth on each side, each tooth slightly hooded at the 
point, the hood forming the indusium, unchanged in texture, not 
fringed with hairs, and not nearly covering the one or occasionally 
two capsules which go to a sorus. Stipe three to six inches long, 
scaly at the very base only, but set throughout, as well as the rigid 
rachis and mid-rib, with hairs like those of C. hirta, but harder, 
more bristly, more adpressed, and seldom glandular. Both 
surfaces of the lamina are destitute of hairs, but have sessile 
glands, hardly visible until magnified, but so viscid as to make 
specimens adhere to the paper in which they are dried. When 
mature the pinnules fall off, and several years’ leafless rachises are 
often on the plant. When dry the whole of the pinnules, are 
reflexed, infolded backward, and bead-like, and the appearance is 
much changed. The fig. of a magnified pinnule in “ Handbook 
of Kaffrarian Ferns ” (Plate XIV., b), drawn from a frond in that 
condition, makes the reflexed lobes look like numerous rounded 
indusia, and is therefore misleading. This species was formerly 
placed as a variety of C. hirta, and is still so placed in “ Syn. 
Fil. ; ” but is much more distinct than other ferns held as species 
there. It might as well be in Nothochlaena as here; but C. hirta 
is more decidedly a Cheilanthes. 
Cheilanthes parviloba. Swartz, 128. 
Adiantum parvilobum. Sw. Schrad. Jour. 1800, II., 85. 
Cheilanthes hirta. Sw. var. parviloba, Kze. Linnaea, 10,539 ; Pappe and 
Rawson, 35 ; Moore’s Index, 243 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 72 ; Hk. and Bkr. 
Syn. Fil. 136. 
Growing in dense masses on rocky exposed ground, or under 
stones in open situations. 
West. — Tulbagh (E. and Z), Olifant’s River (Mund.), Laange Kloof 
(Holland). 
East. — Uitenhage (Atherstone), Fish River. 
