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sunk into its substance without any raised edges. Veins obscure, 
nearly parallel, free, or united to the soriferous marginal vein, or 
in the rather wider and more herbaceous barren fronds of young 
plants forming several areolae. Possibly young plants of this gave 
rise to the Cape locality for Monogramme graminea, Schk. 
Vittaria lineata. Sw.; Schl. Adum. 33; Kze. Linnsea, 10.572; Pappe 
and Rawson, 38 ; Hk. Sp. V. 180 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 396. 
Vittaria tenera. Fee ; Hk. .Sp. V. 179. 
Vittaria sarmentosa. Fee ; Hk. Sp. V. 180. 
Vittaria issetifolia. Bory ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 55 ; Burchell, No. 5838- 
Pteropsis angustifolia. Pappe and Rawson, 43. 
Pteropsis Kuhnii. Pappe MS. in Herb. Gub. 
Tsenopsis. J. Smith. 
Tropical Asia, America, Africa, and Islands ; growing on 
trees and rocks in damp places, mostly near the mountain tops in 
South Africa ; rare. 
West. — Swellendam (Mund), George (Drege, Burchell, 5838)* Grenaden- 
dal (Rev. Kolbing), Table Mountain, above Klaasenbosch, 2300 feet 
(Bolus, 4907). 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Holland), formerly in Fern Kloof, 
still in Grobbellar’s Kloof (Dr. Atherstone). 
Kafr. — Perie, Mount Kemp, Stutterheim, &c. 
Natal. — Most parts of the colony, not common (Wood), sparsely from 
coast to Drakensberg (Buchanan), Noodsberg, Fort Buckingham, 
Inanda, Kranzkloof, Maritzburg, and Coast Bush Bluff (M‘Ken). 
Genus XXIX. Monogramme. Schk. 
“ Sori linear, close to the mid-rib on one or both sides. Small 
grass-like or rush-like plants, the simplest in structure of all ferns.” 
138. Monogramme graminea. Schk. 
Plate CXL. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Rhizome several inches long, half-line broad, creeping, branch- 
ing occasionally, and densely set with short brown hair-like scales. 
