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of distinct, deltoid, or ovate oblong pinnules. Pinnules cut to the 
mid-rib into four to six pairs of oblong toothed segments, some- 
what confluent above. Sori longish, curved above ; lower pinnae 
considerably reduced, and more distant. 
Asplenium Schimperi. A. Br. in Schweinf. Beitr. 224 ; Wood, Natal 
Ferns, 24; Buchanan’s list, No. 75; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 116; Hk. and 
Bkr. Syn. Fil. 489. 
Tropical Africa, extending to Natal, where it grows about 
exposed but damp rocks, in Nottingham and Karkloof districts, 
and in bush at Cathkin, 4000 to 5000 feet alt.; also at Umpu- 
mulo, 2500 feet (Buchanan). 
91. Asplenium aspidioides. Schl. 
Plate LXXXVII. Nat. size. 
Crown sub-erect, paleaceous. Frond herbaceous, tender, 
glabrous, ovate or ovate-deltoid, two to four feet long, eight to 
fourteen inches broad, with a green, slightly scaly stipe, six to 
twelve inches long. Pinnae ovate lanceolate, six to ten inches 
long, one and a half to three inches broad, with attenuated points, 
and with ten to twenty bluntly ovate-deltoid pinnules, which are 
cut to the rachis into five to ten pairs of rounded, oblong, toothed 
segments. Sori oblong, curved, generally one to each segment. 
This species varies considerably in size, and Schlechtendal’s 
figure shows a pinna twelve inches long, four inches broad, and 
more distinctly cut than most specimens. 
Asplenium aspidioides. Schl. Adum. 24, tab. 13 ; Kunze, Linnsea, 
18. 1 18 ; Pappe and Rawson, 21 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 97 ; Hk. and Bkr. 
Syn. Fil. 228 ; Wood, Natal Ferns, 24. 
Athyrium laxum. Pappe and Rawson, 16 ; Moore’s Index, 186 ; Kuhn, 
Fil. Afr. 105. 
Aspidium scandicinum. Willd. 
India, African Islands, and South Africa. 
