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72. Asplenium varians. Hk. and Gr. 
Plates LXVI. Fig. 2. Natural size. LXXIII. Fig. 2. Small 
frond, nat. size, 
Crown erect, tufted, without scales. Frond three to eight 
inches long, one and a-half to two inches broad, two-pinnate or 
two-pinnatifid, herbaceous, glabrous, broadly lanceolate, with a 
short fragile stipe, and a slightly margined green rachis ; lower 
pinnae hardly less than those above ; pinnae nearly equal sided, 
ovate, rounded at the point, and pinnately divided to the rachis 
into about six distinct, flabellate rounded, toothed pinnules, which 
are often cuneate at the base, with flabellate venation, and one to 
four sori in each pinnule. Easily recognised as a distinct form 
from A. erectum, var. lobatum by its small size, comparatively 
greater breadth of the frond, and the more rounded outline of the 
pinnae and lobes, but I think it will eventually have to be merged 
as a variety into A. erectum, Bory. from which it has no good 
specific distinctions. 
A. varians. Hk. and Gr. Ic. pi. 172 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 216. 
A. fimbriatum. Kze. Linnsea. 18.117 ; Pappe and Rawson, 33. Kuhn, 
Fil. Afr. 102; (not A. fimbriatum. Hk. Syn. Fil. 229.) 
India and S. Africa ; not growing here below 4000 ft. altitude. 
East. — Bedford (Miss Cook ; Holland) ; Boschberg (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Buchanan), Sage’s Bush, Izeli (Leighton), Komgha 
(Flanagan), above Perie Mission Station. 
Natal. — Between Omfondi and Togela Rivers (Gueinzius), Verulam 
(Wood), Umpumulo, Mauritzburg, Nottingham, Cathkin (Buchanan), 
Great Noodsberg (McKen.) 
73. Asplenium Gueinzianum. Mett. MSS. 
Frond firmly herbaceous, glabrous, nine inches long, one and 
a half inches broad, with a short green stipe which has a few ovate, 
membranaceous scales. Pinnae numerous, decurrent into a petiole, 
rhomboid-oblong, rounded or auricled on the upper side at the 
base ; cut away on the lower side ; three-quarters of an inch long, 
