Descriptions of the Species. 
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Kaff. — Between King William’s Town and Peddie in several rocky places, 
and on similar ground elsewhere, but not common. 
Natal. — Upland Bush (Buchanan). 
35. Cheilanthes multifida. Sw. 
Plate XXX. Nat. size. Plate XXXI. Fig. 3. Pinnule, enlarged. 
Crown procumbent, tufted. Frond deltoid or oblong deltoid, 
three to four-pinnatifid, usually five to eight inches long, and three 
inches broad, but occasionally twelve to fifteen inches long, and 
six inches broad, glabrous, and shining on both surfaces, firmly 
herbaceous, dark green above, lighter below. Stipe as long as the 
frond, paleaceous at the base, slightly hairy at first, and afterwards 
like the rachis black, shining, wiry, and glabrous ; and flattened or 
channelled down the front. Pinnae deltoid, spreading, flat, 
opposite below, alternate above ; pinnules rather longer on the 
lower than on the upper side of the pinnae, cut to or near to the 
mid-rib into oblique ovate, three to five lobed segments, each lobe 
much revolute at the point, but bearing a distinct white mem- 
branous rounded indusjum besides. The fertile pinnules have the 
margin much reflexed, and often more or less bead-like, but the 
barren frond is plain. 
Cheilanthes multifida. Swartz ; Schl. Adum. 49, tab. 29 ; Kunze, 
Linnsea, 10,537 ; Pappe and Rawson, 33 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 73 ; Hk. 
and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 138. 
Adiantum multifidum. Schr. Jour. 1800, II. 85. 
Lonchitis caffrorum. Sw. Schr. Jour. 1800, II. 292. 
Cheilanthes capensis. Ecklon, un. it. 168 (Kuhn), not C. capensis, Sw. 
Almost confined to tropical and sub-tropical South Africa, and 
growing in rocky places under small scrub, at 1000 to 4000 feet 
alt., and not uncommon all over the district. 
West. — Table Mountain, Meering’s Poort (Lady Barkly), Tulbagh, 
Zwarteberg, Caledon, Swellendam, Clan William, Dutoitskloof, &c. 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Holland), Graafifreinet, and Oudeberg 
(Bolus), Somerset East (MacOwan), Winterberg. 
Kaff. — Katberg, Stormberg (Eck.), S.W. of King William’s Town, Frank- 
fort Hill, Perie, &c., and in Transkei at Main (Mrs. Young), and 
Intwanazana (Baur.). 
