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The Ferns of South Africa. 
forked, with the sori on the upper line, the other barren, or with 
short sori near the point. Teeth sharp, mostly single, but rather 
irregular. 
A. prionitis. Kunze, Linnoea, 10.51 1 ; Pappe and Rawson, 17 ; Kuhn, 
Fil. Afr. 1 12 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 204. 
A. obliquum. Willd. V. 315, part ( fide Kuhn). 
Eastern South Africa. 
East. — Blockhouse Kloof, Grahamstown (Dr. Atherstone). 
Kaff. — Manubie Forest (J. H. Bowker), Pondoland (Drege). 
Natal. — Common in Coast bush (Wood), as far inland as Inanda, 1500 
feet (Buchanan), Noodsberg, Inanda, Palmiet, Maritzburg (M‘Ken). 
77. Asplenium serra, var. Natalense. Baker. 
Plate LXXII. Natural size. 
Crown erect, paleaceous. Frond coriaceous, glabrous, two 
feet long, six to eight inches broad, ovate, simply pinnate, with a 
stipe twelve inches long, which is naked above, and scaly at the 
base. Pinnae fifteen to twenty pairs, shortly stalked, alternate or 
sub-opposite, three to five inches long, one-half to three-quarter- 
inch broad at the base, and tapering to a long attenuated narrow 
point. Pinnae unequally wedge-shaped at the base, cut halfway to 
the rachis or less into oblong or rounded sharply toothed lobes, 
the lower lobe on the upper side larger and sub-flabellate. Sori 
two to three lines long, almost contiguous, in two lines parallel to 
the rachis, and quite close to it, or slightly oblique. 
A. serra, Langs, and Fisch., var. Natalense. Baker Syn. Fil, 485 ; 
Buchanan's list, No. 62 ; Lady Barkly’s list, No. 71. 
A. serra. Wood’s Natal Ferns, 22, 
A. serra is a South American species, and this variety is its 
South African representative. 
Natal. — Under the drip of water in bush at southern terminus of Great 
Noodsberg only (Buchanan) ; in two ravines at Little Noodsberg and at 
Inanda (Wood). 
