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The Ferns of South Africa. 
between the mid-rib and the edge, attached to the veins, the two 
from different veins meeting face to face, as in Scolopendrium, 
and when mature forming one rounded, or oval, oblique sorus. 
Wood remarks — “ An examination of some of the immature fronds 
will show that while the whole of the sori near the base of the 
frond are at an acute angle with the rachis, at the apex they 
become almost parallel with it, and are single and not double as 
at the base. Different forms are found, at last completely merging 
in true punctulata.” Wood also mentions a bi-pinnate or 
bi-pinnatifid form. 
Lomaria punctulata. Kze., var. Krebsii, mihi. 
Onychium Krebsii. Kze. Linnsea, 10.504. 
Scolopendrium Krebsii. Kze. Linnsea, 18.119; Suppl. to Schk. Fil., 
tab. 74; Bot. Mag. pi. 4768; Wood Natal Ferns, 17; Buchanan’s 
list, No. 46A ; Pappe and Rawson, 24. 
Blechnum punctulatum. Sw., var Scolopendrioides, Mett. Msc.; Kuhn, 
Fil. Afr. 93. 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown. 
Natal. — Between Omfondi and Tugela Rivers (Gueinzius) ; from Patillo’s 
through Inanda and Noodsberg to Umpumulo, 1500 to 2500 feet 
(Buchanan) . 
62. Lomaria procera. Sprengel. 
Plate LV 1 I. a. Small barren frond, natural size. b. Fertile frond, 
natural size. 
Rhizome procumbent, four to six inches long, two to three 
inches diameter, paleaceous, with short, broad, ovate pointed, 
dark scales. Frond simply pinnate, herbaceous, or thinly coria- 
ceous, broadest at the base, one to two feet long, six to ten inches 
broad, with stipe twelve to eighteen inches long, which is very 
paleaceous below, and more or less scaly and channelled above, 
and on the rachis. Pinnae of barren frond five to eight lines 
broad, three to five inches long, pointed, entire, or minutely 
serrate, not tapering to the base, but suddenly rounded to a very 
short petiole, even the upper ones not adnate. They are set 
obliquely across the rachis so that the lower edge of each pinna 
overlaps the upper edge of the one below it, and are sometimes 
