Descriptions of the Species. 
IOI 
Pellaea involuta. Baker Syn. Fil. Ed. II. 148. 
Pteris involuta. Sw. ; Schl. Adum. 46; Kze. Linnaea, 10.526; Pappe 
and Rawson, 51 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 82. 
Pelloea profusa. J. Smith ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. Ed. I. 148. 
Cheilanthes profusa. Kze., Linn., 10,536; Suppl. to Schk. Fil., tab. 17; 
Hk. Sp. 2, 108. 
Cheilanthes cornuta. Kze., Linnaea, 10, 534 J Pappe and Rawson, 36 
(see under Cheilanthes depauperata). 
Cheilanthes distans. Mett., var. profusa, Mett. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 7l. 
Pellaea Bojeri (Hk. ?) Buchanan’s list ; Wood’s Natal Ferns. 
South Africa only ; north to Zanzibar. 
West. — Silverfontein, Namaqualand, Buffeljagds-rivier, and Reitkuil 
(Drege). 
East. — Oudeberg, near Graaffreinet (Bolus, 4200). 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan). 
Natal. — Inanda, Umpumulo, Kranzkloof, and abundant all along the road 
to Newcastle (Buchanan). 
48. Pelloea hastata. Link. 
Plate XXXVIII. Natural size of small frond. 
Rhizome subterranean, creeping, short, nearly naked. Frond 
very various, ovate-lanceolate, or sub-deltoid, one to three feet 
long, on a nearly naked, shining, brown, wiry stipe, one foot long, 
which, when young, has scattered, soft, adpressed, woolly scales 
toward the base. Frond generally two-pinnate, the lower pinnae 
not longer than those above, and having one to four pairs of 
broadly lanceolate or ovate pinnules, three-quarters to two inches 
lcng, cordate or rounded at the sessile, but not adnate base, 
rounded at the point ; crenate when fertile as well as when 
barren, as the indusium is slightly intramarginal. Indusium 
linear, narrow, membranous, not lobed, crenate, nor waved, and 
when mature standing at right angles to the frond. Colour deep 
green ; texture coriaceous ; veins distinct ; upper surface glabrous; 
lower surface and secondary rachises in some plants densely 
villose, in others glabrous. Rachis deeply channelled in front, 
more or less villose in the upper part. This is a variable plant 
with a wide range of cutting. 
