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The Ferns of South Africa. 
130. Nothochl^ena Eckloniana. Kze. 
Plate CXXI. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Rhizome short, procumbent, hard, with lanceolate, chaffy, 
white or rufous scales. Frond sub-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 
three-pinnatifid, two to eight inches long, one to two inches broad, 
with a stout, woolly, or paleaceous stipe, three to six inches long. 
Pinnae eight to fifteen opposite pairs, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
pinnatifid, the lower ones unequally deltoid, with several large 
oblong pinnatifid pinnules on the lower side. Upper surface 
glabrous, or at first slightly woolly ; lower surface covered with 
short tomentum, at first white, afterwards rufous brown. Some 
specimens have scales on the lower surface and on the stipe 
instead of tomentum, in which cases the scales are like those of 
Gymnogramme cordata, or sometimes more pointed. Sporeling 
plants under stones have often fronds deltoid and hairy with white 
scales, as in N. Buchanani, Bkr., but afterwards change. 
Nothochlsena Eckloniana. Kze. Linnsea, 10.501 ; Pappe and Rawson, 42 ; 
Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 371 ; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 33. 
Cheilanthes Eckloniana. Mett. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 71. 
Nothochloena Krebsiana. Presl. 
South Africa only ; growing on or under dry stones, in 
sunshine. 
West. — Clan William (E. and Z.), Griqualand West (Moffat), Kimberley 
(Dr. Marloth), Namaqualand (Drege). 
East. — Krakakamma (MacOwan), Cradock (Holland), near Middleburg 
Road, Uitenhage, Fish River Bush, &c. 
Kaff. — Beaufort, Katberg, Bolassi, Perie, Izeli, Peddie, Dohne Hill, also 
Komgha (Flanagan). 
Natal. — Noodsberg and Richmond to Cathkin, 3000 to 5000 feet 
(Buchanan), The Dargle, Bishopstowe (M‘Ken). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Burke), Trigardsfontein (Dr. Rehmann). 
Genus XXVII. Gymnogramme. Desv. 
Sori oval, oblong, or linear; simple or forked; following the 
