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The Ferns of South Africa. 
shag on the under surface and rachis, though this sometimes 
disappears with age. Pinnae lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 
entire, narrowed to the base, or stalked, or the upper surface more 
or less adnate. Fertile fronds rather longer, with thick linear 
pinnae, fertile throughout, or often partly barren in the lower 
pinnae. Involucre slightly within the margin, white, membrana- 
ceous, much cut, but at first entire. Rachis channelled. Stipe 
six to twelve inches long, very paleaceous at the base. This fine 
fern is easily distinguished by its stout stem and long scales. 
L. Dalgairnsiae, P. and R., is this, with the upper pinnae more 
confluent. 
L. cycadoides, P. and R., has the lower pinnae auricled, and 
though maintained as a species by Kuhn, grows among the ordi- 
nary form, and ranges into it. 
Lomaria Boryana. Willd.; Kze. Linn. 10.505; 13.152; Pappe and 
Rawson, 27 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 180. 
Onoclea Boryana. Sw.; Schk. 98, tab. 105. 
Blechnum Boryanum. Schl. Adum. 35, tab. 19. 
Blechnum tabulare. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 94. 
Pteris tabularis. Thunb. Prod. 17 1 ; fl. cap. 732; Pappe and Rawson, 
App. 51. 
Lomaria tabularis. Mett. 
Lomaria coriacea. Schrad. 
Lomaria Gueinzii. Fee. 
Lomaria cycadoides. Pappe and Rawson. 
West Indies, South America, African Islands, and South 
Africa. Not rare in eastern districts, but local, and always on 
upper edge of the forest at 3000 to 5000 feet alt. 
West. — Dutoit’s Kloof (Drege), Table Mountain (Thunberg), Knysna 
Sw’ellendam (Holland), George. 
East. — Krakakamma, Uitenhage, Kat River (E. and Z.). 
Kaff. — Transkei (Drege), Perie, Evelyn Valley, Dohne Hill, &c. 
Natal. — Inanda, Noodsberg, Greytown, Botha’s Hill, Umpumulo, 
Richmond (Buchanan). Plentiful in the midland districts near springs 
(Wood). 
(Lomaria eriopus, Kze., (Linnaea, 13.152; 1 8.1 16) is 
Strangeria paradoxa, Moore, not a fern. 
