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lower rather less, cut to a broadly winged mid-rib into two to three 
pairs of lobes or pinnules, of which the lower one on the upper 
side is separate, roundly obovate from a cuneate base, and two to 
three times bifid, lobes sub-flabellate, spreading, obtuse, often 
bifid ; upper undivided. Sori one to two, sub-parallel with the 
mid-rib, not reaching the sinus of the lobes, and with one or two 
obliquely at the base of the lowest lobe. 
A. Gueinzianum. Mett. MSS. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 103. (with description); 
Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 486. 
Lady Barkly adds, “originally called A. laciniatum by Kuhn.” 
Natal. — (Gueinzius). Not seen by me, and not in Kew Herbarium. 
74. Asplenium protensum. Schrad. 
Plate LXVIII. Reduced, b. Pinna, nat. size. 
Rhizome procumbent, short, naked, with the bases of the old 
stipes permanent, and thickened. Frond firmly herbaceous, 
pinnate or two-pinnatifid, lanceolate, tapering both ways, two to 
five feet long, two to four inches broad, with a channelled, pubes- 
cent rachis, and short pubescent stipe, sometimes glabrous 
when old. Pinnae thirty to forty sub-opposite, spreading 
pairs, nearly sessile, one to one and a half inches long, 
half an Inch broad at the base, and tapering to a 
longish point ; often falcate, cut on both edges halfway to the 
mid-rib into blunt lobes of about two teeth each. The pinnae are 
unequal sided, the lowest two lobes on the lower side being 
awanting. Sori oblong, in two rows near the rachis, somewhat 
oblique, one on the principal vein of each lobe, and directed to- 
ward it. This fine fern is easily distinguished from all its re- 
lations by having the rachis covered with fine glandular hairs, 
which sometimes extend partly on to the pinnae. It resembles 
large specimens of A. erectum, having the same herbaceous texture, 
and long narrow outline ; and like it often produces a bud near 
the point of the frond. 
