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Osmunda barbara. Thunb. Prod. 17 1 ; FI. Cap. 732. 
Todea Africana. Willd.; Schl. Adum. 12; Kze. Linnaea, 10.491 ; Pappe 
and Rawson, 47. 
Todea rivularis. Sieber. 
Sub-tropical Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa ; 
growing in wet open places. Pappe and Rawson and Lady 
Barkly say common all over the colony, but it is altogether 
awanting from Kaffraria. 
West. — Table Mountain and district, frequent. 
East. — Tzitzikamma (Dr. Atherstone), near Grahamstown (MacOwan), 
Van Staaden’s River (Browning), Krakakamma (Zeyher). 
Natal. — Common from Palmiet to Inanda, Noodsberg, and Umpumulo, 
2500 feet (Buchanan, Wood, M‘Ken), Drakensberg (Kunze). 
Sub-Order V. — Schiz^eacea:. 
Genus XXXIII. — Schiz^ea. Smith. 
Barren frond grass-like ; fertile frond grass-like, with the small 
pinnate fertile segment at the top, the upper surface of the pinnules 
bearing the sessile capsules. 
A most curious and distinct genus, not at all fernlike, and 
having only a few species ; but they are widely distributed. 
149. S. tenella. Barren fronds shorter than the fertile, which are slender, 
and have fertile segments less than a half-inch long, bearing five to eight 
pairs of short pinnules. 
150. S. pectinata. Barren fronds equal in height to the fertile, which 
have fertile segment more than a half-inch long, and having ten to 
fifteen pairs of pinnules. 
149. Schiza:a tenella. Kaulf. 
Plate CXLI. Fig. 1. Natural size. b. Large fertile segment. 
Rhizome tufted, or shortly running, black, naked, wiry. 
Barren fronds two to three inches long, quarter-line broad, 
flattened, pointed, twisted, coriaceous, narrowed below into a 
short, rigid, black, round stipe. Fertile fronds four to six inches 
