Descriptions of the Species. 
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ought to stand as a species, and be placed in section Darea, near 
A. flaccidum, Forst. 
This appears from specimens in Cape Town and Grahamstown 
Herbaria to be Aspl. discolor, P. and R. 17 , where, however, 
A. lucidum, Schl. Adum., tab. i4, fig. 6, is quoted, which is our 
var. flexuosum ; while A. flexuosum, Schr., is placed among the 
unknown species in the appendix. Wood’s var. flexuosum is allied, 
and A. gemmiferum, Schr., var. laciniatum, mett., is made 
by Kuhn to include both this and var. flexuosum. 
West. =Knysna (Miss Dalgairns), Seven Oaks (Holland). 
East. — Grahamstown (Atherstone), Brookhuizen’s Poort (MacOwan), Kat 
River (E. and Z.). 
Kaff. — Katberg. 
Natal. — Seven-mile bush, Upper Umkomaas, 4000 feet, and Inanda 
(Wood). 
79. Asplenium Rawsoni. Baker. 
Plate LXXVIII. Natural size. 
Crown tufted, slightly paleaceous. Frond deltoid, glabrous, 
simply pinnate, two-pinnatifid or two-pinnate, three inches long, 
one and a half inches broad, with a slender green channelled stipe 
three inches long, paleaceous only at the base, with small brown 
scales. Pinnae about four sub-opposite pairs ; upper pinnae nearly 
round or slightly cuneate, shortly stalked, three to five lines long 
and broad, thinly coriaceous, crenate at the outer rounded margin; 
lower pair of pinnae larger, more or less lobed, or cut nearly or 
quite to the mid-rib into round lobes. Sori short, occupying the 
centre of the pinnule, and leaving a wide space outside. Veins 
distinctly flabellate. 
This is named A. Ruta-muraria, Linn., in Pappe and Rawson’s 
Synopsis, but the specimens I have seen are quite distinct from 
that species, and also from A. cuneatum, Lam., which it 
approaches. 
A. Rawsoni. Baker, Journ. Bot. 1872, p. 362 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 
487 ; Lady Barkly’s list, No. 76. 
