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The Ferns of South Africa. 
Kafif. — Chumie, Kat River (Drege), Komgha (Flanagan), Bazija (Baur.), 
Perie, Frankfort, Dohne, Toise River. 
Natal. — Maritzburg to Drakensberg, common (Buchanan), Inanda (Wood). 
Var. sinuatum. Mihi. 
Plate CXVIII. Natural size. 
Frond waved at the margin or irregularly pinnatifid, and in 
strong plants sometimes two or more of the lobes are an inch or 
more long. The sori are sunk into the frond, and show them- 
selves through as raised projections on the upper side ; and there 
are sometimes a few scales on the upper as well as on the under 
surface. Like the type this varies in size in accordance with 
exposure, but it is constant in its sinuate lobed character where it 
occurs, and has seldom an ordinary frond. Sometimes it is not 
unlike P. incanum, Sw., and the peltate scales and the rhizome 
are similar to that species. 
East. — Tzitzikamma (Dr. Atherstone), Fordyce Tree (Holland), Bosch- 
berg (MacOwan). 
Kafif. — Above Perie Mission Station, and above Evelyn Valley. 
Natal. — Seven Mile Bush, Upper Umkomas, and on the heights near 
Yook (Buchanan). 
124. Polypodium lycopodioides. Linn. 
Plate CXIX. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Rhizome epiphytal, widely creeping, rather slender, one to two 
lines diameter, clothed with lanceolate, brown, pointed scales, 
which become afterwards nearly white. Fronds lanceolate, 
glabrous, coriaceous, three to five inches long, one-half to three- 
quarter inch broad, tapering slowly to the base, and slightly 
decurrent on the short petiole. Mid-rib distinct; other veins 
obscure, but forming large medial areolae, containing a free vein, 
which arises from the top of a smaller costal areola, and on which 
the sorus is terminal. One or more small irregular areolae lie 
outside the large ones. Sori in a single row on each side the 
