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Natal. — In wet shady places from Inanda inland (Wood), Umpumulo, 
Karkloof, Kranzkop, Noodsberg, Richmond, Maritzburg (Buchanan), 
Fort Nottingham (M‘Ken). 
Basutoland. — (Sir H. Barkly). 
Fuller’s Kloof near Woest Hills.— (Holland). 
(Buchanan mentions (Revised List, p. 30) — “A large 
Asplenium, apparently near to A. polypodioides, if not a variety of 
it,” as sent by Mr. Ayres from Macamac gold fields, Transvaal. 
A. polypodioides, Mett., is a large, pinnate, East Indian fern, 
with a short tree-like stem, and belongs to the section Diplazium, 
in which the sori extend to both sides of the veins. Diplazium is 
not otherwise represented in South Africa, and Mr. Baker writes 
that A. polypodioides is not known at Kew from this district, so 
having seen no specimen, I can only mention it here.) 
Genus XIX. — Actiniopteris. Link. 
Frond flabellate, with narrow, radiating, simple or once forked 
segments. Sori linear, submarginal, one on each side the segment, 
opening face to face. This genus includes only the one distinct 
and curious little plant described below, and the list of synonyms 
shows that it has undergone a variety of generic names. 
92. Actiniopteris radiata. Link. 
Plate CVII. Fig. 2. Natural size. c. Section of pinnule, enlarged. 
Crown sub-erect, tufted, with abundant, lanceolate, brown 
scales. Frond coriaceous, fan-shaped, one to two inches broad, 
divided to near the base into four to six divergent pinnules, which 
are again divided into two to three linear, spreading segments, 
half-line broad, toothed at the blunt apex. Stipe one to six inches 
long, slightly edged with green, and having scattered spreading 
scales. Fertile segments longer, narrower, and more pointed. 
Sori linear, submarginal on each side of the segments, covered by 
a thin indusium opening inward. It seems to vary considerably 
