Descriptions of the Species. 
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deltoid, secondary pinnae, which are cut below to the mid-rib into 
ovate, blunt, bluntly toothed, or lobed, glabrous pinnules, which 
are confluent above. Sori very large, generally numerous. 
Aspidium capense. Willd, Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 254 (not A. capense, 
Desv.). 
Polypodium capense. Linn. Suppl. 445 ; Thunb. FI. Cap. 735. 
Aspidium coriaceum. Swartz. Prod. 133 ; Schl. Adum. 21 ; Schk. 
filic. , tab. 50; Kunze, Linnsea, 13 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 128. 
Polypodium coriaceum. Sw. 
Polystichum coriaceum. Schott. ; Moore’s Index ; Pappe and Rawson, 1 5. 
Tropics and sub-tropics, south of the equator ; epiphytal on 
trees, in large clumps, and also growing on the ground about 
stones, in sunshine. 
West. — Swellendam, Grenadendal (Kunze), Rondebosch (Bergins), 
Knysna. 
East. — Van Staaden’s River, Krakakamma, Grahamstown (Holland), 
Boschberg (MacOwan), Uitenhage, &c. 
Kaff. — Komgha (Flanagan) ; common throughout the forest district. 
Natal. — From Inanda inland (Wood), Maritzburg, Noodsberg, Inchanga 
(M‘Ken), Itafamasi, Umpumulo, rare (Buchanan). 
97. Aspidium aristatum. Sw. 
Plate XCII. Natural size. 
Rhizome creeping, paleaceous. Frond sub-coriaceous, or 
firmly herbaceous, glabrous, deltoid, three-pinnate or four- 
pinnatifid, one and a half to two feet long, one foot broad, with 
stipe twelve inches long, set below with narrow scales. Lowest 
pinnae much the largest, and with pinnae largest on the lower side, 
unequally deltoid ; other pinnae less cut, lanceolate from a wide 
base. Pinnules ovate-cuneate, sharp pointed, and wflth pointed 
teeth, or toothed lobes. Sori small, abundant. This resembles 
A. capense in outline, but is sharply toothed, with smaller sori, 
and is less coriaceous. In some herbaria it is confused with 
Neph. Filix-mas, var. elongatum. 
