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The Ferns of South Africa . 
having the lower pinnae reduced, and from N. Mauritianum, Fee, 
and N. molle, Desv., in the pinnae being cut to or below the 
lowest veinlets. 
Nephrodium Bergianum. Bkr. Syn. Fil. 269 ; Wood, Natal Ferns, 2 7. 
Polypodium Bergianum. Schl. Adum. 20, tab. 9 (see under N. conter- 
minum here) ; Kunze, Linnsea, 10.500; Pappe and Rawson, 39. 
Aspidium Bergianum. Mett.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 127. 
Lastrea Bergiana. Moore’s Index. 
Aspidium patens. Schl. Adum. 22; Kze., Linnsea, 10.547. 
Lastrea patens. Pappe and Rawson, 12. 
Aspidium Gueinzianum. Mett.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 134; Buchanan’s List 
(under N. Bergianum), Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 269. 
Aspidium natalense. Fee, Mem. VIII. 102. 
South Africa only. 
Abundant in all parts of Cape Colony and Natal. 
Transvaal. — (Dr. Hans Schinz.). 
102. Nephrodium mauritianum. Fee. 
Rhizome stout, shortly creeping, paleaceous. Frond two- 
pinnatifid, two to four feet long, one to two feet broad, widely 
lanceolate, and tapering to both ends, and with a villose stipe one 
foot long or more. Texture thinly herbaceous, pinnae as well as 
the rachis more or less villose on both surfaces, or sometimes 
nearly glabrous. Pinnae lanceolate, sometimes twelve to fourteen 
inches long, one inch broad, cut into falcate pinnules, which are 
connected below so far as to allow two or more pairs of veinlets 
from neighbouring pinnules to meet. Veinlets numerous, not 
forked, with medial sori, and a fugacious indusium. 
This fern is placed by Lady Barkly and also by Buchanan 
under N. molle, Sw., which it resembles, in having several pairs 
of veinlets united ; but the texture and habit of the plant are 
exactly those of large forms of N. Bergiana, from which it can 
only be distinguished by its veins, and to which it is more closely 
connected than to N. molle, Sw. 
