Descriptions of the Species. 
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densely set with longish, dark brown, linear, shining scales. 
Frond two-pinnate, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, two to four inches 
broad, one to one and a half feet long, with about twelve pairs of 
sub-opposite or alternate pinnae, and a stipe of six inches. Pinnae 
deltoid, pointed, shortly stalked, cut nearly or quite to the rachis 
into four to six cuneate pinnules ; the lower distinct and flabellate 
or trifid, the others oblong pointed, and slightly confluent ; all 
with the upper margin sharply toothed, and tapering to a point. 
Sori two to three lines long, flabellate or central in the pinnules, 
and in two lines close to, and nearly parallel with the mid-rib in 
the upper part of the pinnae, facing inward. Stipe and rachis 
nearly black, abundantly set with rusty brown, fibrillose scales, 
which increase in size downward. Pinnae also set more 
or less thickly on both sides with scattered brown woolly 
scales. 
A. furcatum. Thunb. Prod. 172 ; FI. Cap. 735 ; Schl. Adum. 30 ; Hk. 
and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 214. 
A. prremorsum. Sw. Prod. 130; Kze. Linnsea, 10.519; Pappe and 
Rawson, 19 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. hi. 
A. furcatum (including both forms) grows through most of the 
tropics. Here, var. tripinnatum is the more common plant ; 
growing abundantly in forest districts, and some of the localities 
quoted below may belong to that form. The less divided form 
grows on exposed rocks, and though very different in the extremes 
they cannot be separated, as every intermediate gradation between 
the two occurs. A minute, simply pinnate, scaly form, three to 
four inches high, grows on a rock near Bollasi, King William’s 
Town. 
West. — Table Mountain, Rondesbosch (Bergins), Paarlberg (Kunze). 
East. — Uitenhage (Krauss), Algoa Bay (Forbes), Bedford (Miss Cook), 
Krakakamma, Zwartkop. 
Kaff. — Dohne Hill, Tamache, Bollasi, &c. 
Natal. — Plentiful in upper districts (Wood), Maritzburg and Umpumulo to 
Drakensberg (Buchanan). 
T ransvaal. — Magalisberg (Sanderson) . 
