Descriptions of the Species. 
IS 1 
Kaff. — Alice (Dr. Stewart), Komgha (Flanagan). 
Natal. — Near Peel’s, Umlaas (M‘Ken). 
82. Asplenium cuneatum. Lam. 
Plate LXXVII. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Rhizome subterranean, slender, creeping, paleaceous. Fronds 
deltoid, glabrous, sub-coriaceous, two-pinnate, four to eight inches 
long, three to four inches broad, on a wiry, green or brown stipe, 
six inches long, scaly below only. Pinnae shortly stalked, deltoid, 
blunt, with four to six obtuse, rounded or lobed, distinct pinnules, 
which are cuneate at the base, and sharply serrate round the outer 
edge. Lower pinnae generally not longer than those above them. 
Sori numerous, flabellate, mostly short, often awanting from the 
lower pinnae. Veins very numerous, conspicuous. 
A. cuneatum, Lam. enc. II. 309 ; Pappe and Rawson, 20 ; Kunze, 
Linnoea, 10.516; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 100; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 214. 
Central America, Polynesia, South Africa, and African Islands. 
This form, which is not so common as var. splendens, grows on 
rocks away from the present forest range, but which most likely 
had been under forest at some previous time. 
East. — Somerset East (MacOwan), Grahamstown (Dr. Atherstone). 
Kaff. — Izeli, and near Peddie. 
Natal. — Nearly everywhere in bush from Palmiet to Nottingham 
(Buchanan, Wood ; but both include var. splendens here). 
Var. / 3 . splendens. (Kze.) 
Plate LXXVII. Fig. 2. Pinna, natural size. 
Larger in all its parts than the type. Fronds three-pinnatifid, 
often two feet long, nine inches broad, and with a stipe nine inches 
long. Pinnae three to four inches long, one and a half to two 
inches broad, pointed, or sometimes with an attenuated point, and 
about four pairs of pinnules, also pointed more or less ; the lower 
ones larger, and cut nearly to the mid-rib into roundly cuneate 
