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The Ferns of South Africa. 
pinnules, which are widest at the base, or sometimes cut only into 
rounded lobes along the margin. Sori medial on the veinlets, 
oblong or elongated along the veinlets. This has the general 
habit of Nephrodium Bergianum, Bkr., but is quite a distinct 
plant, and not merely an aberrant form of that fern with the 
fructification of Gymnogramme. 
Gymnogramme totta. Schl. 15, tab. 6; Kunze, Linnsea, 10.495; Hk. 
and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 373. 
Gymnogramme Lowei. Hk. and Gr. Ic. 138. 
Phegopteris totta. Mett. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 123. 
Polypodium tottum. Willd. (not Thunberg). 
Grammitis totta. Presl.; Pappe and Rawson, 41. 
Polypodium Africanum. Desv. 
Asia and Africa ; growing by streams in shade. 
West. — Table Mountain and Devil’s Mountain (Pappe), Koratra (Drege), 
Knysna (Krauss). 
East. — Boschberg (MacOwan), Grahamstown (Guthrie, Bolus, 1729), 
Bedford (Dr. Atherstone). 
Kaff. — Katberg (Holland), Perie, Frankfort, Dohne, &c., frequent. 
Natal. — Upland bush, not reaching the coast (Wood), 3000 to 4000 feet 
alt. (Buchanan), Kranzkop, Fort Buckingham, Maritzburg, and Notting- 
ham (M‘Ken). 
132. Gymnogramme cordata. Schl. 
Plate CXXIV. Natural size. b. Fertile pinna. 
Crown sub-erect, paleaceous. Frond lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, pinnate or two-pinnatifid, herbaceous or sub-coriaceous, 
glabrous on the upper surface, densely clothed with ovate- 
lanceolate reddish scales on the under surface, three to eight 
inches long, one to two inches broad, with a short paleaceous 
stipe. Pinnse ovate or ovate-oblong, the upper confluent ; the 
lower rounded or cordate at the base, cut halfway to the mid-rib or 
more (or less) into rounded, toothed, decurrent lobes. Veins 
flabellate in the lobes, with the oblong sori mostly nearly parallel 
with the mid-rib. 
