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The Ferns of South Africa. 
with adpressed woolly scales. Pinnae fifteen to thirty nearly 
opposite pairs, very shortly stalked, linear, rounded at the point, 
cordate, or slightly auricled at the base, three-quarters to one and 
a half inches long, one line broad ; edges very much rolled back. 
Upper surface glabrous and shining, or like the under surface 
(except the indusium) slightly woolly. Rachis and pinnules very 
rigid and coriaceous. Involucre same texture as the frond, intra- 
marginal. Pinnules when barren broader, and not revolute ; and 
the lower ones reduced. Veins forked, free (“ or very rarely 
anastomosing,” Kuhn), but lost in the firm frond, and not easily 
seen. 
Pellsea pectiniformis. Bkr. Syn. Fil., 2nd Ed., 147. 
Pteris pectiniformis. Godet. Hb., Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 87 (with description). 
Pteris Goudotii. Kze. Hb. 
Pteris dura. Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil., Ed. 1, 147 (where P. Burkeana, 
Bkr., is included in it. 
African islands, and South Africa south to Natal, at 1000 to 
3000 feet alt., Umzinyate Falls, Inanda, and Killiecrankie 
(Buchanan), Umhloti (Wood), Transvaal (Bolus). 
43 Pella:a lancifolia. Baker. 
Plate XXXI. Fig. 2. Nat. size, c pinnule, magnified. 
Crown much tufted, slightly paleaceous, or almost naked- 
Frond lanceolate, three to six inches long, one to one and a half 
inches broad at the middle, rather narrower below, two-pinnate, 
glabrous and herbaceous, with a naked brown stipe, two inches 
long, and a naked rachis. Pinnae almost sessile, a half to one 
inch long, half-inch broad ; upper pinnae entire or lobed ; middle 
and lower pinnae cut to the rachis into three to seven cordate, 
ovate, or deltoid, entire, oblique pinnules three to four lines long, 
two to three lines broad, cut away below into a br.oad petiole, or 
adnate. Barren fronds are very thin, and with rounded decurrent 
lobes, and the margin is crenate even when fertile. Involucre 
very wide, of same texture as the frond, except the margin, which 
is scarious, and undivided, or at least not regularly lobed. Baker 
remarks “ differs from P. profusa by its naked rachis and very 
