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The Ferns of South Africa. 
naked stipe three to six inches long. Mid-rib conspicuous, 
furrowed above, other veins rather obscure and irregular, but in 
large specimens having primary veins from the mid-rib to the 
margin at about every half-inch distance, between which numerous 
areolae are formed, mostly including single or dichotomous free 
veinlets. In smaller fronds there are no primary veins, but 
numerous irregular areolae. The sori are superficial, and in the 
typical P. normale are in a row near the mid-rib, but the Natal 
specimens mostly have them scattered irregularly near the 
mid-rib, and not having any regular position on the veins. This 
in Hk. and Bkr. “ Syn. Fil.” is named var. /?. P. longifrons, Wall. 
South-east Asia and Africa. 
Natal. — Maritzburg, Richmond, and York (M‘Ken), Seven mile bush, 
Upper Umkomas (Buchanan), Upper districts (Wood). 
Kuhn omits P. normale, but includes P. Pappei, Mett. MS. 
which may be synonymous. Lady Barkly and Buchanan give it as a 
synonym, and I cannot distinguish a Natal specimen in Herb. 
Gub. named “ Phymatodes concinna, No. 6, N. sp.” (Pappe) ; but 
as Kuhn’s description hardly agrees with P. normale, the following 
is translated from “Filices Africanae,” page 150. 
“ Polypodium Pappei, Mett. Msc. Rhizome creeping, as thick 
as a goose quill, clothed with ovate-acuminate, membranaceous, 
dark brown scales, two lines long, afterwards naked, green. Frond 
herbaceous, firm, glabrous, petiole one to three inches long ; frond 
one foot long, two and a quarter inches broad, lanceolate, entire, 
often falcate-acuminate. Veins easily seen. Costal areolae large, 
with a dichotomous free vein ; outer areolae two to four-seriate, 
Sori superficial, often in the outer angle of the costal areolae, 
rarely a second in the next areola. Paraphyses none. (Mett. 
Msc.) 
Pleopeltis concinna. Pappe, MS. 
Polypodium loriforme. Hk. Sp. V. 57, in part. 
Caffraria (Rawson), Natal (Saunderson).” 
