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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Var. y. erectum. (Bory.) 
Plate LXV. Natural size, and Plate LXIV. Fig. c. Pinna. 
Pinnae pointed, deeply toothed on both upper and lower edges, 
except a little bit which is cut away on the lower side toward the 
base ; the corresponding upper side enlarged, or sometimes with a 
distinct, toothed auricle. Frond two to three feet long, proliferous. 
Pinnae one inch long, three-eighths to one half inch broad. Teeth 
mostly single. 
A. erectum. Bory; Schl. Adum. 28, tab. 15; Kze. Linnsea, 10.513; 
Pappeand Rawson, 18 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 102. 
A. harpeodes. Kze. Linn. 18.329 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 202 ; Wood. 
Natal Ferns, 20. 
A. erectum, Bory, var. harpeodes. Kze. Buchanan, No. 57. 
The most common form. 
West. — Table Mountain (Rawson). 
East. — Grahamstown (Holland), Bedford (Miss Cook), Krakakamma. 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan), Main (Mrs Young), frequent throughout the 
forest districts. 
Natal. — Upper parts of colony common (Buchanan). 
Transvaal. — Macamac (M‘Lea, 12). 
Var. 8 . brachyotus. (Kunze). 
Plate LX VI. Natural size. 
Pinnae larger, fewer, and more obtuse; less tapering to the 
point, and more cut away on the lower base than var. erectum. 
Teeth as large as in that form, but blunt, and often double. Frond 
tapering more quickly to a confluent apex. This form approaches 
some conditions of Aspl. anisophyllum, Kze., but is thinner in 
texture, has round stipe, no scales, and longer, narrower sori. 
Pappe and Rawson say, “ Stipe as well as the rachis is downy.” 
A. brachyotus. Kunze, Linnsea, 10.512; Pappe and Rawson, 18; 
Buchanan’s list, No. 57 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 99 ; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 21. 
Natal. — From Coast to 3000 feet (Buchanan, Wood, Gueinzius) ; between 
the Omsamcuba and Omsamwobo (Drege). 
