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West.— Top of Table Mountain (Thunberg), Kerstenbosch (Bergins), 
Drakenstein (Thbg.), Cango (Mund and Maire), Cape Flats (Rawson), 
Swellendam (Holland), Platteklip (Zeyher). 
East. — Near Grahamstown (Atherstone), Van Staaden’s River, Somerset 
East (MacOwan). 
Natal. — (Gueinzius ^fide Kuhn), Inanda (Wood). 
Genus XXXIV.— An eimia. Sw. 
Fertile part of frond distinct, without lamina, much branched, 
rising from the base of a pinnate, leafy, barren frond. A very 
distinct genus, confined, with the exception of our two species, to 
South America and the West Indies. 
1 5 1. A. Dregeana. Barren frond simply pinnate, villose. 
152. A. tomentosa. Barren frond two-pinnate or tw r o-pinnatifid, densely 
hairy. 
1 5 1. Aneimia Dregeana. Kze. 
Plate CXLII. Fig. r. Natural size. 
Crown erect or sub-erect, the undeveloped fronds clothed in 
lanceolate scales. Stipe four to eight inches long, villose, some- 
what paleaceous below, bearing one barren and two fertile fronds 
or divisions. Barren frond almost sessile, six to twelve inches 
long, one and a half to two inches broad, simply pinnate, broadly 
lanceolate, and bearing six to ten pairs of alternate, ovate, blunt, 
toothed, thinly sub-coriaceous, sessile pinnae, one inch long, one 
and a half inches broad. Lower pinnae somewhat auricled on the 
upper side ; upper pinnae with a shortly cuneate sub-equal base. 
Fertile spike three inches long, half-inch broad, on a three to four 
inch petiole ; its pinnae repeatedly divided into short linear 
segments, covered on the inner surface with capsules. Veins sub- 
flabellate, free. Stipe and rachis villose, under surface and veins 
on upper surface of barren frond slightly villose. The fertile spikes 
may be regarded as two transformed and fertile lower pinnae, and 
Wood remarks that he has two fronds, natural sports, “ one of 
