Descriptions of the Species. 
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barren, and much more foliaceous and flabellate than the more 
advanced fertile fronds, which are glabrous, deltoid, two-pinnate or 
three-pinnatifid, three inches long, one and a half inches broad, on 
a naked green stipe one inch or more long. Pinnae cut to the 
mid-rib into distinct, cuneate, flabellate, three-fid or pinnately five 
to seven-fid, narrow lobes, with one vein in each, on which is 
placed the linear sori, mostly in the lobes but sometimes confluent 
below. Frond not powdered. 
Gymnogramme leptophylla. Desv. ; Pappe and Rawson, 42 ; Hk. and 
Bkr. Syn. Fil. 383 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 60. 
Polypodium leptophyllum. Linn. Sp. 7908 ; Schk. Fil. 26, tab. 26. 
Grammitis. Swartz. 
Widely distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ; but 
in South Africa found only in moist vegetable soil at the Ronde- 
bosch waterfall, Devil’s Mountain, where it has been collected by 
Mund, Dr. Alexander (1848), Browning, &c., and where it is still 
found. 
134. Gymnogramme ochracea. Presl. 
Plate CXXVI. Natural size. b. Fertile pinnule, enlarged. 
Crown erect, tufted, paleaceous, the young unrolled fronds 
clothed in yellowish scales. Fronds numerous, firmly herbaceous, 
ovate-deltoid, acuminate, three-pinnatifid below, two-pinnatifid 
above, glabrous on the upper surface, coated with white powder 
on the under surface, one to one and a half feet long, five to seven 
inches broad at the base, with a furrowed brown stipe six to twelve 
inches long, which is dusted with white powder, and more or less 
paleaceous toward the base, with lanceolate spreading scales. On 
old fronds the powder is often awanting from the stipe, and some- 
times also from the under surface, except among the sori. Rachis 
furrowed, slightly green-margined. Pinnae lanceolate, widest at 
the base, distinct, and shortly stalked, except the upper ones 
which are slightly connected at the base. Lower pinnae two to 
three inches long, one inch broad, cut to the mid-rib into separate 
