Descriptions of the Species. 
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the rachis to the tips of the pinnae, the inner portion of the fructi- 
fication is broken up into small dots somewhat as in Doodia. 
But in all cases the sori lie close to the mid-rib ; never as in Scol. 
Krebsii midway towards or near to the margin. Its habitat is 
never like the latter and L. punctulata imwet places, but usually 
the comparatively dry upper margins of bush.” 
Lomaria punctulata. Kze. , var. Atherstoni, mihi. 
Blechnum Atherstoni. Pappe and Rawson, 16 ; Hk. Sp. Fil. III. 31.62; 
Buchanan, No. 49. 
East. — Grahamstown Kloofs. 
Kaff. — Bazija (Baur. 460 ; alt., 3000 feet). 
Natal. — Inanda, Great Noodsberg, Umpumulo, Karkloof (Buchanan). 
Var. intermedia. Mihi. 
Plate LV. Natural size. 
Plant similar to the type or stronger. Fertile pinnae similar to 
the barren, or slightly narrower, crenulated, and more drawn to a 
point, but not contracted as in Lomaria. Sori contiguous in an 
interrupted line along the mid-rib, and close to it, but not parallel 
with it ; each indusium one to two lines long, starting from the 
mid-rib in a slightly oblique direction, and meeting a shorter one, 
which also rises from the mid-rib, but in an opposite direction. 
The line therefore takes the appearance of a saw edge, quite sharp 
in the lower pinnae, but more undulating in the upper pinnae. 
Besides this there are frequently small, detached sori outside this 
line, and running obliquely toward the edge of the frond as in 
Asplenium, or sometimes the two meeting sori of the main line 
are continued outward face to face as in Scolopendrium. This is 
a most curious and evidently variable form, growing in the 
Grahamstown Kloofs, and also sent by Buchanan from Natal. 
Var. Krebsii. (Kze.) Mihi. 
Plate LVI. Natural size. b. Fertile part, magnified. 
Fertile frond similar to the barren, both with pinnae three 
inches long, four lines broad, more or less crenate, with a wider 
cordate base, or auricled on one or both sides. Sori halfway 
