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The Ferns of South Africa . 
unless the latter belong to P. lancifolia which is nearly related to 
this; indeed Schlechtendal’s fig. d. on Tab. XXIII. approaches 
P. lancifolia closely. The fronds die off during drought, but the 
ripened crown is capable of standing a long continued drought, 
even when detached from the roots. 
Pel laea auriculata (Link.); Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 140; Hk. and Gr. Ic. tab. 1 16; 
Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 145. 
Cheilanthes auriculata, Link. Hort. Berol. II., 36; Kunze, Linnaea, 10, 
531 ; 23, 242 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 69. 
Pteris auriculata, Swartz. Schrad. Jour. i8co, II., 69; Schl. Adum. 41, 
tab. 23. 
Allosorus auriculatus, Tresl., tab. 153 ; Pappe and Rawson, 31. 
Adiantum auriculatum, Thunb. , prod. 173; Flor. Cap. 736. 
Pteris confluens, Thunb., prod. 173 ; Thunb., Flor. Cap. 73 3. 
Adiantum hastatum, Thunb., in Hb. Ivlfs. (fide Kuhn, though Thunberg 
gives Adiantum hastatum, L. as a synonym for his Pteris hastata== 
Pelbea calomelanos, Link). 
S.W. Africa only, growing on moist shady rotten rocks. 
West. — Table and Devil’s Mts. and neighbourhood, common ; Muisen- 
berg and Clan William (Ecklon) ; Paarlberg (Drege) ; Mitchell’s Pass 
and Namaqualand (Sir H. Barkly) ; Ivamiesbergen (Drege). 
Stated by Kuhn to have been collected in Natal by Krauss, but 
not found since. Not known in Eastern Province nor Kaffraria. 
39. Pellsea gerania:folia. Fee. 
Plate XXXIII. Natural size. b. pinnule, enlarged. 
Crown tufted, scaly. Frond glabrous on both sides, firmly 
herbaceous, roundish deltoid, varying from nearly entire to bi- 
pinnatifid, but seldom cut quite to the rachis which has always a 
wide green margin. It varies considerably, and sometimes the 
barren fronds are small, round, and hardly lobed at all, while the 
fertile fronds on the same plant are cut nearly to the rachis, and 
the pinnae again deeply cut into pointed, lobed, pinnules. The 
pinnules on the lower side of the lower pinnae are much longer 
and more cut than the others. The fronds are one to four inches 
long and broad, and have a black, shining, wiry, and nearly naked 
rachis of equal length. The lower pinnae are nearly as large as 
