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The Ferns of South Africa. 
5095 from Keureboom River in Long Kloof, must also be referred 
here, as also another specimen in Herb. Gub. marked C. induta, 
Kze., from the Barkly Coll, without locality. 
C. Bolusii, Baker ; Hooker’s Icon. Plant, June, 1886. Plate 1636. — 
Annals of Botany, 1892, Vol. V., no. 18. 
Genus XIV. — Peluea. Link. 
Small ferns of rigid habit, having divided fronds, often cori- 
aceous, lanceolate or triangular, and generally with free veins. 
Sori marginal, with a rather wide continuous or interrupted in- 
dusium, under which the sori are at first separate and terminal 
on the veins, but afterwards more or less continuous. From 
Cheilanthes this is distinguished by the continuous indusium, 
though sometimes it is so much interrupted as to make the limit 
between the two genera rather indefinite. From Pteris it is dis- 
tinguished by the sori being at first confined to the ends of the 
veins, instead of in a continuous line in the axil of the indusium, 
but as the capsules mature this character becomes lost, and these 
two genera then appear almost too closely connected. The species 
are grouped in “ Syn. Fil,” into four subgenera, into which our 
species are placed as under, but the groups are neither natural nor 
very definite in their limits. 
§ Cheiloplecton, Fee, including our species 38, 39, 40. 
§§ Allosorus, Presl., „ ,, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47. 
§§§ Platyloma, Sm., „ ,, 48, 49, 50. 
§§§§ Holochlaena, Bkr., ,, ,, 51. 
The Pellaeas are widely distributed, but most numerous in 
Western North America, and in South Africa. 
Synopsis of the Species : — 
38. P. auriculata. Frond lanceolate, simply pinnate or nearly so, herb- 
aceous ; pinnae ovate ; indusium very broad, crenate. 
39. P. geraniaefolia. Frond roundish deltoid, 2-pinnatifid, not cut quite 
to the rachis. 
40. P. deltoidea. Frond roundish deltoid, 2-pinnate, and cut quite to the 
rachis, two inches long and broad. 
