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broad indusium \ ” but it seems to me to be as nearly connected 
with the cut forms of P. duriculata, Link. 
In “ Journal of Botany ” the indusium is described as crenate, 
but in “ Annals of Botany ” this is omitted. The specimens I 
have examined are neither crenate nor regularly lobed, as 
P. auriculata always is. 
P. lancifolia, Baker, in “Journal of Botany,” July, 1874 ; “Annals of 
Botany,” V., No. 18 ; Lady Barkly’s revised List, No. 43. 
Found only at foot of Kamiesberg, Namaqualand, where it was 
discovered by Sir Henry Barkly, and again collected by Mr. Bolus. 
44. Pell^ea consobrina. Hk. 
Plate XXXVI. Lower pinnae, nat. size, b Pinnule magnified. 
Crown tufted, paleaceous. Fronds 3 to 4-pinnate, deltoid, 
four to eighteen inches long and broad, on a naked, shining, 
brown, furrowed stipe, of equal length, paleaceous at the base. 
Pinnae deltoid, but with larger pinnae on the lower side ; second- 
ary pinnae also deltoid with larger pinnules on the lower side. 
Pinnules sessile, divided to near the rachis into two to five pairs of 
oblong or obtuse toothed lobes with a larger terminal one, or some- 
times again pinnate and having lobed pinnules. Sori intra- 
marginal, with a narrow membranous indusium. Pinnules nar- 
rowed when fertile, and not toothed as they are when barren. 
Whole frond glabrous, or with the stipe slightly paleaceous when 
young, coriaceous, and of a brownish green colour. P. Bojeri, 
Hk. is stated to be a form of this by Baker (“Syn. Fil. 150), but 
Wood’s and Buchanan’s plant so named is P. involuta. 
Ecklon and Zeyher’s specimen in Albany Museum marked 
“ Pteris capensis, Thbg. 136 ” also belongs to this species, though 
the name is a mistake. 
Pelbea consobrina. Hk. Sp. 2, 145; t. 117A; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil 
150- 
Pteris consobrina. Kze. Linnoea, 10.526. 
Pteris quadripinnata. Forsk, Swartz. 
Cheilanthes quadripinnata. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 74. 
Allosorus consobrinus. Pappe and Rawson, 31. 
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