Descriptio?is of the Species. 
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above and below, with no terminal pinna, but the rachis often 
prolonged and proliferous. Rachis fragile, green, glabrous ; pinnae 
one-sidedly cuneate, with a short, winged stalk, from which the 
lower edge curves into the terminal lobe, or sometimes there is one 
lobe on the lower side ; while on the upper side there are two or 
three ; the inner edge nearly parallel with the rachis at about one 
line distant. One vein goes into each of the blunt, crenate 
lobes, the lower veins bearing one short sorus each. 
Baker (“ Annals of Botany,” Aug., 1891) now states that A. 
brachypteron, and A. Dregeanum, Kze., are Dareoid forms of this 
species ; but so far as I have seen they are widely separate. 
A. Sandersoni. Hk. Sp. fil. 3, p. 147, pi. 179; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 16 ; 
Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 197 ; Wood, Natal Ferns, 20. 
A. dentatum, P. & R. (See under A. Kraussii). 
South Africa and African Islands. 
Natal. — Field’s Hill (M‘Ken), Umpumulo, Killiecrankie (Buchanan), 
Noodsberg and Inanda (Wood), Richmond (Sanderson). 
Mrs. Kitton’s Kaffrarian specimens, so named, belong to 
A. Kraussii, Moore. 
68. Asplenium Trichomanes. Linn. 
Plate LXI. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Crowns tufted, several together, almost without scales except 
on the undeveloped young fronds. Frond four to eight inches 
long, half-inch broad, simply pinnate, sub-coriaceous, linear, 
lanceolate, narrowed gradually to the point, and the lower pinnae 
more distant and reduced. Rachis black, shining, and glabrous ; 
without margin, and similar to the wiry stipe, which is one to four 
inches in length. Pinnae one quarter to half-inch apart, alternate 
or sub-opposite, sessile, rhomboid, or nearly round, two to three 
lines broad and long, nearly equal sided, or with the upper side 
rather larger. Upper pinnae cuneate ; lowest flabellate ; all 
minutely toothed round the outer edges. Veins pinnate, sori 
oblong, about five to a pinna, arranged three above, two below. 
