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The Ferns of South Africa. 
by rather broader segments and more flaccid fronds. In Hk. and 
Bkr. “ Syn. Fil.,” ist Edition, A. rhizophyllum, Kunze, is also 
credited as sent by Sanderson from Natal ; but in 2nd Edition 
this locality is omitted, and Lady Barkly and Buchanan both trace 
it to his A. cicutarium. 
A. cicutarium. S\v. ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 220; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 99. 
85. Asplenium Dregeanum. Kze. 
Plate LXXXI. Natural size. 
Crown erect, tufted, slightly paleaceous, with brown scales, or 
almost naked. Fronds herbaceous, glabrous, tender, lanceolate, 
acuminate, six to fifteen inches long, one to one and a half inches 
broad, with a slender green rachis, and a stipe three inches long. 
The frond produces a proliferous bud below the terminal pinnule, 
and has fifteen to thirty pairs of shortly stalked pinnae, one-half to 
three-quarter-inch long, half-inch broad, cut to the mid-rib into one 
to three pairs of simple linear pinnules, besides the lower one on 
the upper side, which is often bifid or trifid, and which has no 
corresponding pinnule on the lower side. The pinnules or lobes 
are one to two lines long, and a half-line or less broad, with the 
sori marginal or intramarginal along its upper edge. Lower pinnae 
gradually reduced to half the size of middle ones. 
A. brachypteron, Kze., differs only in being smaller, and is 
merged in Dregeanum by Kuhn, while Baker (“ xAnnals of 
Botany,” Aug. 1891) now says that “A. brachypteron and 
Dregeanum, Kze., are Dareoid forms of A. Sandersoni, Hk.” If 
these can be connected, I do not see why A. Thungbergii, Kze., 
should not be held to belong to the same group of forms, under 
one broken species. 
A. Dregeanum. Kze. Linn. 10.517 ; Suppl. to Schk. Fil., tab. 27 ; 
Pappe and Rawson, 22 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 101 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 
221. 
A. brachypteron. Kze. Linn. 23.232 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 221 
Wood, Natal Ferns, 23. 
