The Ferns of South Africa. 
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63. L. Boryana. Lower pinnae not much reduced, caudex erect, tree- 
like, several feet high. 
59. Lomaria inflexa. Kunze. 
Plate XLIX. Natural size. b. Fertile pinna, magnified. 
Crown three to four inches long, one inch diameter, sub-erect, 
densely clothed with dark brown, lanceolate scales. Fronds 
simply pinnate. Barren fronds twelve inches long, one to one and 
a half inches broad, lanceolate, and tapering gradually to both 
ends. Rachis destitute of scales, except below the pinnae, which 
begin one inch above the crown, but that portion is covered with 
long, narrow, brown scales. Pinnae blunt or slightly pointed, 
suddenly widened at the base on the upper side, connected with 
the rachis along the whole base. Texture leathery. Fertile 
frond about six inches long, and one inch broad ; pinnae very 
close, comparatively broad, and more or less infolded. Indusium 
very broad, afterwards torn. The barren fronds are not unlike 
those of L. attenuata, but the fertile fronds are very different. 
This species has caused much confusion. Lady Barkly 
mentions the name as a synonym for L. punctulata, with which it 
has no connection, but introduces into her list the name 
L. discolor, Willd., upon the same plant. Baker, in 2nd Ed. of 
“ Syn. Fil.,” makes it L. discolor, W., var. Natalensis, Bkr., and in 
“ Kafifrarian Ferns,” I named it L. lanceolata, Spr., in mistake. 
L. inflexa. Kze., Linnsea, 18.117 5 Suppl. to Schk. 150, tab. 65 ; Pappe 
and Rawson, 28 ; Hk. Sp. III. 37. 
Blechnum inflexum. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 92. 
Lomaria discolor, Willd., var. Natalensis. Baker Syn. Fil. Ed. II. 481 ; 
Buchanan’s list, No. 44. 
Lomaria lanceolata. Sim, Kaff. Ferns, 34 (not L. lanceolata, Spr.). 
South Africa only ; growing beside open streamlets. 
Kaff. — Above Perie forest between Evelyn Valley and Kabula ; in one 
place only, but there abundant. 
Natal. — Found by Gueinzius, Nottingham, Karkloof, and on Drakensberg 
at Cathkin abundant (Buchanan ; Wood). 
