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The Ferns of South Africa. 
127. Nothochl^na Rawsoni. Pappe. 
Plate CXXI. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Rhizome running, one line diameter, several inches long, 
woody, and clothed with lanceolate, adpressed, dark scales. Frond 
linear-lanceolate, six to nine inches long, one-half to three-quarter 
inch broad, with a naked or shaggy tomentose wiry stipe three 
inches long, and about twenty pairs of ovate, sub-coriaceous 
pinnae, which are slightly stalked below, sessile above, and divided 
to near the mid-rib into three to four pairs of close rounded 
pinnules. Pinnae alternate, half-inch long, quarter-inch broad, 
glabrous on the upper surface, densely tomentose or shaggy below, 
and when dry all inrolled along the rachis into globules of red 
tomentum ; rachis also red tomentose. Sori in the shag without 
indusium. Lower pinnae rather smaller than those about the 
middle of the frond. 
N. Rawsoni. Pappe ; Pappe and Rawson, 43 ; Hk. Sp. V. no ; Hk. 
Icon. Fil. cent. II. 77 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 370. 
Cheilanthes Rawsoni. Mett. Msc.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 75. 
Endemic. — Between Spectakel and Komaggas. 
Namaqualand. — Rev. Mr. Whitehead. 
Specimens in Herb. Gub. are the original, and Lady Barkly 
says “ not found since.” 
128. Nothochl^na in^equalis. Kze. 
Plate CXXII. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Crown procumbent, or forming a short rhizome, densely 
paleaceous. Frond obiong or oblong-deltoid, sub-coriaceous, four 
to six inches long, one to three inches broad, with a dark stipe 
three to six inches long, which is at first woolly, and afterwards 
naked, but furnished with a tuft of long narrow reddish scales at 
the base. Pinnae opposite, the upper ovate-oblong and sessile, the 
lower shortly stalked, and unequally deltoid ; all cut to the mid-rib 
