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The Ferns of South Africa. 
lobes. The texture is less leathery than in the type, and occasion- 
ally it has a few scattered ovate scales on the stipe and rachis. 
This form is everywhere in the forest, and cannot be regarded as 
other than a conditional form. 
A. splendens. Kze. Linnsea, 10.516 ; Pappe and Rawson, 21 ; Moore’s 
Index, 169 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 1 7 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil., Ed. II., 
487. 
A. splendens, Kze. , var. elongatum. Kze. Linn. 10.516. 
East. — Krakakamma (E. and Z.), Grahamstown (Holland). 
Kafi. — Kat River (E. and Z.), Komgha (Flanagan), Pondoland (Drege), 
St. John’s River (Sir H. Barkly) ; abundant in Perie, Frankfort, 
Stutterheim, Toise River, &c. 
Natal. — Not distinguished from A. cuneatum by Natal botanists. 
Var. y. ANGUSTATUM. Mihi. 
Plate LXXVIII. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Frond proportionally narrower and less cut than in A. cunea- 
tum, coriaceous, glabrous, two to two and a half inches broad, 
twelve to fifteen inches long, including a stipe of six inches. 
Pinnae about eight sub-opposite pairs, of which the upper are 
cuneate or cuneate three-lobed ; lower stalked, deltoid, pinnatifid 
into about three cuneate pinnules, of which the terminal is longest, 
lobed, and pointed, and the others rounded. Outer edges all 
crenate-serrate ; cuneate sides entire. Rachis more or less palea- 
ceous, with dark, lanceolate, hard, deciduous scales. Frond 
without scales except on the short petioles. Sori half-inch long, 
three to six in a pinnule, and like the conspicuous veins, flabellate. 
This approaches the smaller woolly form of A. furcatum, Thbg., 
in general outline, but is less cut, less pointed, and almost naked, 
and evidently belongs to A. cuneatum. Found by Lady Barkly 
at Knysna, and named by her Asplenium dimidiatum, Swartz. 
83. Asplenium furcatum. Thunb. 
Plate LXXIX. Natural size. 
Rhizome procumbent on the surface, three to six inches long, 
