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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Cheilanthes triangula. Kunze, Linnsea, 10.536. 
Cheilanthes atherstonei. Hk. Sp. II. 107 ; Pappe and Rawson, 37. 
Cheilanthes firma. Moore ; Pappe and Rawson, 37 \ teste 
Cheilanthes linearis. Moore ; Pappe and Rawson, 37 / 
Africa and African islands ; growing on open banks or near 
bush in the upper districts, 2000 feet and upward. 
West. — Knysna (Miss Dalgairns). 
East. — Kraka-kamma (E. and Z.), Albany (Dr. Atherstone), Howison’s 
Poort (Holland), Boschberg 4500 (MacOwan), Oudeberg, Graaffreinet 
(Bolus, 172). 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan), Witbergen, Stormberg (Drege). Frequent 
above the forest at Perie, Dohne, Toise River, Kei Road, and S.W. of 
King William’s Town. 
Natal. — Upper districts down to Noodsberg (Wood), Maritzburg, 
Drakensberg, Umpumulo, &c. (Buchanan). 
Transvaal (Oates), Pilgrim’s Rest, Macamac Fields (M‘Lea, 46). 
(Pell^ea andromedaefolia. Fee. 
Allosorus andromedaefolia. P. and R. 31 ; Kunze, Linnaea, 10,503. 
This is included by Pappe and Rawson, Kunze, and Lady 
Barkly, from Drege’s specimens collected at Kendo, and is still 
retained in “ Syn. Fil.” (150), but was not seen by Pappe and 
Rawson nor Lady Barkly, while Kuhn excludes it from Africa as a 
mistake. 
An unnamed sp. in Herb. Gub. without locality does not 
differ in any essential point from the description in “ Syn. Fil.” of 
P. andromedaefolia, but is certainly a dry grown and very much 
involuted form of P. consobrina. Mr. Baker, however, writes me 
that “ P. andromedaefolia is in Hb. Drege from £ dry localities at 
Kendo ’ — Herb. Kew, Herb. Rawson.”) 
45. Peluea boivini. Hk. 
Plate CXLVI. Natural size. 
Frond deltoid, two-pinnate or three-pinnate, four to nine 
inches long, three to six inches broad, on a shining black stipe 
three to six inches long. Pinnae stalked, ascending, deltoid, in 
opposite pairs ; the lowest the largest, three inches long, two 
inches broad at the base, and having about four pairs of opposite 
