Descriptions of the Species. 
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South Africa only ; growing in rocky and shady places in the 
Sneeuwbergen (Drege) Springbok, and Bowesdorp, Namaqualand 
(Sir H. Barkly). 
37. Cheilanthes Bolusii. Baker. 
Plate XXV. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 2 b Pinnule, magnified. 
Rhizome shortly creeping, with lanceolate brown scales, keeled, 
black. Stipe and rachis stout, black, and shining, with a few 
lanceolate rusty brown scales at the very base. Frond deltoid, 
three to six inches long, two to three inches broad, on a stipe four 
to eight inches long ; pinnae alternate, rather distant, widely deltoid, 
erecto-patent, ascending, with the pinnules longer and more 
divided on the lower than on the upper side. Pinnules 
oblong, with three to six pairs of small, oblique, very 
much recurved, almost globular, bead-like segments, which 
are' glabrous above, and somewhat glandular below, but 
have all the upper and side . edges so much turned 
back, hoodlike, that little of the under surface can be seen. No 
separate indusium can be detected : the reflexed edge being 
coriaceous like the rest of the frond. 
Mr. Baker places it in section Physapteris with the remark 
“near C. induta but 4-pinnatifid, with a black rachis and stipe, 
and small round bullate segments.” He also connects it with the 
Australian C. Sieberi, and the Indian C. bullata, 
It is closely connected with C. induta, and C. multifida, but 
distinguished from the former by having no tomentum or scales on 
the underside of the frond, and from the latter by the segments 
being further apart, more decurrent, smaller, and much more 
recurved. 
Fig. 1 636 Icon. Plant, shows a more expanded frond, with the 
pinnules largest on the upper side of the pinnae, though the 
description puts it the other way. My figure is from part of the 
type returned from Kew Herb, to Mr. Bolus after the loss of the 
remainder of his specimens in the wreck of the “Windsor Castle.” 
West — By the Breede River at Darling Bridge. 1873, Bolus 
(Herb. 2801), found also by L. Kitching (Icon. Plant), Burchell’s 
