Descriptions of the Species. 
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pinnately blunt lobed. Sori near the veins in the upper half of 
pinnules rather large. Indusium small, not hairy, persistent. 
Veins pinnate with few forked veinlets. Buchanan says — “ While 
growing, the fronds are covered with long hairs, strikingly trans- 
parent in the sunlight, but quickly disappearing in the process of 
drying.” 
Neph. Buchanani. Bkr. leones Plantarum, plate 1662 ; Hk. and Bkr. 
Syn. Fil. Ed. II. 498. 
Neph. eximium. Cord. ined. 
Lastrea crinita. Boivin. ined. (not Desv.), 
(Lastrea oppositum, P. and R. (Appendix No. 2) is doubtfully referred 
here by Lady Barkly, but their description does not answer this. ) 
South Africa, Bourbon, and Madagascar ; growing in shade 
near streams. 
Kaff. — Griqualand East, Handcock’s Drift, Umzimkulu (Buchanan). 
Natal. — Nottingham, 4000 feet ; Zwartkops, Karkloof (Buchanan). 
Transvaal. — Pilgrim’s Rest, Drakensberg (J. H. M‘Lea). 
no. Nephrodium catopteron. Hk. 
Plate CIV. Natural size. 
Crown sub-erect. Fronds scented, herbaceous, villose on 
both surfaces, three-pinnate or three-pinnatifid, deltoid, or ovate- 
deltoid, four to five feet long, three feet broad, with a stipe two to 
four feet long, which like the rachis and frond is finely villose. 
Pinnae widely lanceolate, pointed, the lower ones two feet long, 
unequally deltoid, with longer pinnules on the lower side. 
Pinnules lanceolate, cut to the mid-rib into oblong segments 
half-inch long, and three lines broad, which are obliquely con- 
nected by the whole base, rounded at the apex, and cut along the 
margin into three to five pairs of oblique rounded lobes. Veinlets 
forked or trifid. Sori abundant, medial. Indusium persistent, 
villose. 
Nephrodium catopteron. Hk. Sp. IV. 137 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 284; 
Wood’s Natal Ferns, 28. 
