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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Pellaea hastata. Link. Hk. Sp. II., 145, tab. ii6b ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. 
Fil. 152. 
Pteris hastata. Sw. Schrad. Jour. 1800; Schl. Adum. 42 (not Pteris 
hastata of Thunberg or Kuhn). 
Allosorus hastatus. Presl ; Pappe and Rawson, 30. 
Cheilanthes hastata. Kze., Linnsea, Vol. 10.532. 
Cheilanthes hastata, var. stenophylla. Kze., Linnoea, 10.533. 
Cheilanthes hastsefolia. Kze., Linn., 23.307. 
Pellsea viridis. M‘Ken. 
Pteris viridis. Forsk, fl. oeq. Arab. (1775) ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 89. 
Cheilanthes viridis. Sw. ; Hk. Sp. II. no. 
Adiantum hastatum. Linn. Suppl. 447. 
Pteris auriculata. Thunb. Prod. 172 ; Flor. Cap. 733. 
Lady Barkly includes here Pappe and Rawson’s Allosorus 
coriifolius, P. and R., and Allosorus capensis, Pr., both of which 
belong to Pteris aquilina ; also, Cheilanthes firma, Moore, and 
C. linearis, Moore, both of which were afterwards merged by 
Moore into C. triangula, Kze., a synonym of P. consobrina. 
Africa and African islands. It is perhaps the most common 
fern throughout the whole of South Africa, growing both in the 
forest and on the veldt, from the coast to the mountains, wherever 
it has a little bush shelter, and frequently without shelter. 
Var. macrophylla (Plate XXXIX., nat. size) has the frond 
usually only once pinnate, with pinnae much larger, and more 
pointed, than the pinnules in the ordinary form ; or sometimes 
with the lowest pinnae again divided. It varies considerably, and 
is possibly only a young state, and passing gradually into the 
ordinary form. Not uncommon in forest. 
Allosorus hastatus, var. macrophylla. Tappe and Rawson, 30. 
Cheilanthes macrophylla. Kze., Linn., 23.307. 
Pellsea hastata, var. macrophylla. Hk. Sp. II. 146. 
Cheilanthes hastata, var. macrophylla. Kze., Linn., 10.81. 
Var. glauca, mihi (Plate XL., nat. size). Fronds triangular, 
three to eight inches long, two to five inches broad, on a stipe one 
to four inches long ; two-pinnate, with the pinnules deeply lobed, 
or sometimes three-pinnatifid. Lower pinnae largest, equal sided, 
ascending, erecto-patent, or with the pinnules on both sides of the 
