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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Natal. — Inanda, Inchanga, Cathkin, Unsusi F'alls (M‘Ken), Field’s Hill, 
Noodsberg, Umpumulo (Buch.). 
36 Cheilanthes induta. Kze. 
Plate XXXI. Fig. 1. Nat. size, b Pinnule, magnified. 
Rhizome creeping ; frond three-pinnatifid, bluntly ovate- 
lanceolate, four to six inches long, tapering from a base one and a 
half to two inches broad, and with a stout stipe of several inches, 
which is slightly paleaceous when young, and afterwards shining 
brown, or nearly black, and naked ; lower pinnae shortly stalked, 
one inch long, and hardly so broad at the base, deltoid, and 
having about six pairs of oblong pinnules, cut to the mid-rib into 
about four pairs of sessile ovate-lobed segments, which are 
coriaceous, much revolute when fertile, glabrous on the upper 
surface, but on the underside set with short thin reddish tomen- 
tum, scattered among which are a few long white woolly scales. 
The upper part of the rachis and its branches is also tomentose, 
and has scattered scales or hairs. The segments are small, half- 
globular, bead-like, and having the indusium formed of the 
indexed margin, and turned in all round the segment. 
Very like C. multifida in general appearance, but characterised 
by the woolly under-surface of the frond, as well as by the indu- 
sium. Lady Barkly and Wood give the running rhizome as its 
distinguishing character, but in C. multifida the crown is always 
more or less procumbent, and often extended into a rhizome. The 
plant mentioned by Wood as gathered near Newcastle, Natal, by 
Buchanan, and believed by him to be C. induta, differs from the 
typical multifida only in being glandular, or very slightly tomentose 
on the under surface, but has no scales, and has the involucre 
white and membranous, in addition to the inrolled edge. From 
C. Bolusii that plant differs in the outline of the frond, as well as 
in having the lamina more expanded : and it can only be referred 
to C. multifida, Sw., var. / 3 . flexa, Kze. 
Cheilanthes induta. Kze. Linn. 10,538; Pappe and Rawson, 36; 
Moore’s Index, 244 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 73 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 138. 
Myriopteris. Fee. 
