Descriptions of the Species. 
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East. — Krakakamma (Eck.), Grahamstown (Holland), Oudeberg, 4800 
feet (Bolus, 1697), Boschberg (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Buchanan), Bazija (Baur.), Komgha (Flanagan), Perie, 
Greytown, Toise River, Thomas Mountain. 
Natal. — Mooi River, Riet Vlei, Nottingham, Umkomas (Buchanan). 
70. Asplenium monanthemum. Linn. 
Plate LXIII. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Crown sub-erect, tufted, paleaceous. Frond simply pinnate, 
firmly herbaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, one to two feet long, one- 
half to one and a half inches broad, with a brown polished rachis, 
on a similar naked black stipe, three to nine inches long ; rachis 
not margined with green. Pinnae numerous, almost sessile, quite 
close above, larger and more distant downward, except the lowest 
few, which are shorter, and a half to one inch apart. Pinnae 
rhom'boidal, connected at the lower corner ; lower edge entire and 
straight, at a right angle to the rachis, one-half to three-quarter 
inch long, inner edge entire, nearly parallel with the rachis, two to 
three lines long ; upper and outer edges serrate, meeting in a 
blunt point. Lower pinnae somewhat auricled on the upper side ; 
lowest few flabellate and smaller. Sori usually only one, linear, 
parallel with the lower edge, and near it, but opening upward ; 
but frequently with other two or three shorter ones set obliquely 
across the pinna in addition. The frond is not proliferous at the 
apex, but on the stipe below the pinnae an adventitious bud is 
often to be found. 
A. monanthemum. Linn. Sp. 7814 ; Schl. Adum. 27 ; Kze. Linn. 
10.515; Pappe and Rawson, 19; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 107; Hk. and Bkr. 
Syn. Fil. 197. 
South America, Africa, and Canary Islands ; not uncommon ; 
growing in shady places by streams in bush. 
West. — Rondebosch and Kerstenbosch (Bergins), Table Mountain, Groot- 
vadersbosch (Ecklon), Paarde Kraal, Knysna (Burchell, 5199). 
East. — Kat River (Eck.), Grahamstown (MacOwan), Boschberg (Bolus, 
1701), Bedford (Miss Cook). 
