Descriptions of the Species. 
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Var. y. Schraderi. (Mett.) 
Plate CXV. Natural size. 
Rhizome slender, short, and tufted, with black linear scales. 
Frond thick and leathery in texture, three to five inches long, 
half-inch broad, with the margin refiexed, and narrowed gradually 
to the base, but almost without stipe. Veins not distinctly visible 
without looking through, but the upper surface dotted all over 
with small holes like pin punctures. Sori more numerous than in 
the type. This form grows on rocks in sunshine, and in their 
extremes this and the type look very distinct, but gradually 
approach, evidently in accordance with the conditions of growth. 
P. Schraderi. Mett. Polyp, No. 179, t, II., f. II.; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. 
Fil. 354 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 152 ; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 32. 
Polypodium elongatum. Schrad.; Schl. Adum. 16, tab. 7 ; Kze. Linnoea, 
10.499. 
Phymatodes elongata. Presl. ; Pappe and Rawson, 41. 
Cape and Natal only. (Natal localities and some of the others 
include P. lineare, Thbg., as well as var. Schraderi.) 
West. — Knysna (Lady Barkly), George (Mund and Maire), Olifant’s 
River (Rev. Hesse). 
East. — Blockhouse Kloof, Grahamstown (Atherstone), Bontjes River 
(Drege), Graaffreinet (Bolus, 819). 
Kaff. — Shiloh (Rev. R. Baur), Perie, Toise River. 
Natal. — All over the colony (M‘Ken, Buchanan, Wood). 
122. Polypodium normale. Don. 
Plate CXVI. Natural size. 
Rhizome slender, woody, running, branching, and rooting 
freely, clothed with lanceolate, pointed, deciduous, dark scales. 
Frond entire, thin, sub-coriaceous, glabrous, naked, lanceolate, 
one to two and a half feet long, one to three inches broad, 
tapering to a point, and tapering very slowly to a slightly margined 
