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The Ferns of South Africa. 
but there is nothing in either description to indicate that it is not 
N. Bergianum, Bkr., which is abundant in the locality given 
(Table Mountain), while I have seen no specimen of this from 
that part of the colony. 
Neph. molle. Desv.; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 239 ; Buchanan’s List, 
No. 92. 
Aspidium molle. Sw.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 136. 
Polypodium parasiticum, L. 
Former collectors mostly gave this name to N. Mauritianum, 
Fee, and Kuhn mentions Bergins, Mund and Maire, Ecklon and 
Zeyher, Drege, and others ; but I have seen no located specimens 
from either of these, nor any specimen from east or west province. 
Kaff. — Perie Forest. 
Natal. — Moist and shady places on the coast, and common from Inanda to 
Umpumulo (Buchanan). 
Transvaal. — (Buchanan, Lady Barkly). 
104. Nephrodium unitum. R. Br. 
Plate XCVIII. Natural size. 
Rhizome creeping, black, slender, paleaceous. Frond pinnate, 
coriaceous, glabrous, or slightly villose on the underside, ovate 
oblong, one and a half to two feet long, six to eight inches broad, 
with a slightly villose rachis, and a brownish, villose or nearly 
glabrous stipe twelve to fifteen inches long. Pinnae sessile or 
shortly stalked, three to five inches long, one-half to three-quarter 
inch broad, lanceolate, pointed, with the margin cut one to two 
lines deep into roundish obliquely pointed lobes. Lower pinnae as 
large as, or larger than, those above ; upper pinnae more closely 
placed, and slightly reduced, but at the point of the frond the 
pinnae are suddenly reduced to a pinnatifid terminal lobe. Veins 
pinnate, veinlets not forked, but several pairs of veinlets from 
neighbouring pinnules unite below the sinus, and the abundant 
sori are situated on the veins near where they meet, or in the lobes 
near the margin. Indusium small, fugacious. 
