Descriptions of the Species. 
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pinnules, of which the upper are simple, and the lower three- 
foliate ; other pinnae smaller upward, and mostly with simple 
pinnules. Pinnules coriaceous, three-quarter-inch long, two to 
three lines broad, broadest below the middle, and tapering upward 
to the blunt point, and downward to the cordate base ; all shortly 
stalked, and with a black mid-rib prominent to the point on the 
under side. Rachis and secondary rachises black, and densely 
set with short brown tomentum. Sori intramarginal, with a very 
broad indusium. This species is near the larger form of P. hastata 
var. glauca, but has blacker, more rigid, and tomentose rachis, 
and broader indusium. 
Found near Magalisberg, Transvaal, by Zeyher and Burke, 
and it also occurs in Madagascar, Mauritius, and India. 
I have seen no South African specimen, but the description 
and figure are from Ceylon specimens kindly forwarded to me 
from Kew. 
46. Pell^ea namaquensis. Baker. 
Plate XXVI. Fig. 2. Nat. size, b Pinnule, magnified. 
Crown tufted, paleaceous, with linear brown scales. Fronds 
ovate pointed, one inch broad, two to four inches long, on a stout 
stipe one to two inches long, and having four to six pairs of deltoid 
sub-opposite pinnae ; the lower the largest, half-inch broad, three- 
quarters to one inch long, shortly stalked, equal sided, erecto- 
patent, ascending, and cut to the rachis into several lobed, trifid, 
or pinnatifid pinnules, having a shortly cuneate base, and wide 
attachment, or sometimes shortly stalked. Rachises and stipe 
stout, brown, and shining, with scattered, small, stiff, brown, 
lanceolate, but not hair-like scales, which are more abundant 
towards the base. Texture firmly herbaceous ; frond glabrous on 
both surfaces ; indusium continuous, narrow, folding back early. 
Baker describes this as “ about midw r ay between P. involuta and 
P. consobrina in cutting and general aspect.” It seems to me 
closely connected with P. involuta, but the specimens available 
are too few to allow the limits of the species to be accurately 
defined. The only specimens seen are the single fronds in Herb. 
