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The Ferns of South Africa. 
long, rigid, wiry, black below, green upward, glabrous, and bearing 
at the summit the sub-erect fertile segment, which is a quarter to a 
half-inch long, and has five to eight pinnules on each side, one to 
one and a half lines long, folded together upward, and bearing the 
capsules on their inner surfaces. Sometimes the pinnules are 
forked, and plants found above Evelyn Valley had up to twelve 
points on each side. 
Schizsea tenella. Kaulf.; Schl. Adum. 13 ; Kunze, Linn. 10.439 ; Pappe 
and Rawson, 46; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 428 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 7 1 . 
South Africa only ; growing in water. 
West. — Hottentot’s Holland (Zeyher), Grenadendal (Rev. C. R. Kolbing), 
George (three to twelve inches long). 
East. — Amos Kloof, Grahamstown (Holland), Van Staaden’s River 
(Bolus, 1542). 
Kaff. — Above Perie Mission Station, and at Evelyn Valley, 4000 feet alt. 
Natal. — Inyangwine, Umtwalumi (M‘Ken), near Umbilo Falls (Sander- 
son, Wood). 
150. SchiZjEA pectin ata. Smith. 
Plate CXL. Fig. 1. Natural size. b. Section of stipe. 
Rhizome shortly running or tufted, black, with numerous 
fronds, which are rigid, coriaceous, four to twelve inches high, one- 
half to one line broad, with a distinct mid-rib, and narrow, thick, 
revolute margins, and toward the base narrowed into a wiry round 
black stipe. Fertile segment horizontal, one-half to three-quarter 
inch long, three-eighths to one-half inch deep, with ten to fifteen 
linear or forked pinnae on each side, folded together upwards, on 
the inner surface of which the capsules are placed in two lines. 
The fertile segment is as large on short plants as on long, and the 
fronds on one plant are all of equal height. 
S. pectinata. Smith; Thunb. Prod. 172; Thunb. FI. Cap. 734; Schl. 
Adum. 13 ; Kze. Linnaea, 10.493 > Pappe and Rawson. 45 ; Kuhn, Fil. 
Afr. 1 71 ; Hk. an Bkr. Syn. Fil. 429. 
