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The Ferns of South Africa. 
A. protensum. Schrad ; Schl. Adum. 29. tab. 16 ; Kze. Linnsea, 10.513; 
Pappe and Rawson, 18 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 1 3 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 
211. 
Africa and African Islands ; growing in wet places in deep 
shade; frequent. 
West. — Knysna (Verrriaux). 
East. — Grahamstown (Holland), Boschberg (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Miss Hartzenberg), Main (Mrs. Young), Perie, Frank- 
fort, &c. 
Natal. — Great Noodsberg and Umpumulo to Drakensberg, 2000 to 5000 
feet (Buchanan). 
Var. bipinnatifidum. Mihi. 
Plate LXIX. Nat. size. 
Plant stronger in all its parts than the type, but habit, texture, 
and villose rachis, as well as the cutting when the plant is young, 
are the same. When the plant is mature fronds are two to four 
feet long, five to seven inches broad, lanceolate, the pinnae divided 
to the mid-rib toward the base into separate but overlapping, 
obovate, rounded, bluntly serrate, lobed pinnules. Upper pinnules 
rounded, more or less confluent. Sori flabellate in the free lobes, 
otherwise nearly parallel with the costa, and not reaching the sinus. 
Found at Dokamma, (Drege, fide Kunze), and in the Perie Forest. 
75. Asplenium anisophyllum. Kze. 
Plate LXX. Frond reduced, b. Pinna, nat. size. 
Crown erect, paleaceous. Frond herbaceous, glabrous, simply 
pinnate, lanceolate, one and a-half to two feet long, four to six 
inches broad, with a green stipe one foot long, glabrous above, 
but paleaceous towards the base, and a somewhat winged rachis. 
Pinnae twelve to twenty pairs, shortly petioled, broadly lanceolate, 
from a shortly cuneate base, attenuated toward the point, two to 
four inches long, half to one inch broad, deeply toothed throughout 
except the two basal edges ; the teeth mostly in pairs, and rather 
