The Ferns of South Africa. 
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Lomaria attenuata. Willd.; Sp. PI. V., 290; Kze. Linnsea, 18. 116; 
Pappe and Rawson, 28 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 176. 
Lomaria gigantea. Klfs. 
Blechnum giganteum. Schl. Adum. 36 ; tab. 20 and 22, fig. 1. 
Lomaria heterophylla (Desv. see above), Kunze, Linn. 10.506; Pappe 
and Rawson, 27. 
Blechnum onocleoides. Swartz. 
Onoclea attenuata. Swartz. Schr. Jour. 
Blechnum polypodioides. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 92. 
Osmunda polypodioides. Sw. prod. 127. 
America (central), Polynesia, African Islands, and South 
Africa : growing in deep, wet, and shady ravines, and about water- 
falls in the forest ; often in water. 
West. — Kerstenbosch (Bergins), Dutoitskloof, ravines on Table Mountain 
above Wynberg, George (Drege), Caledon, Koratra, Krom River. 
East. — Grahamstown, plentiful ; Krakakamma, Kat River, &c. 
Kaff. — Alice, Thaba N’doda, Perie, Frankfort, Stutterheim, Toise River, 
&c. 
Natal. — Common all over the colony. 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Sanderson, Bolus). 
The bi-pinnate form grows at Frankfort, Perie, and Bedford ; 
and Desvaux’ plant is from “ Prom. Bon Spei.” 
(Lomaria spicant. Desv. 
(Pappe and Rawson, 29 ; Hk. and Baker, Syn. Fil. 178. 
Blechnum spicant. J. Smith ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 93. 
Blechnum boreale. Sw. ; Schl. Adum. 38 ; Schk. Fil., tab. no.) 
This northern species is included by Schlechtendal from the 
Cape on the strength of a specimen in Herb. Bory de St Vincent, 
collected by Mr. Riche, but as it has not been seen since, south of 
Morocco and Madeira, the locality is doubted by Kuhn, and 
omitted by Baker. No South African specimens exist in South 
African herbaria, and it is, therefore, omitted as a mistake). 
61. Lomaria punctulata. Kze. 
Plate LII. a. Barren frond, nat. size. b. Fertile frond, nat. size, 
c. Section of fertile pinna. 
Varieties in Plates LIII., LIV., LV., LVI. 
Crown stout, erect, or shortly procumbent, paleaceous. Fronds 
