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The Ferns of South Africa. 
which with a large barren frond bears two small ones, which are 
fertile at the base and barren and leafy at the apex ; the other one 
is a barren frond with the lowest pinna on each side again twice 
pinnate.” 
Kunze made two varieties of this species, but they are not 
distinct. 
Aneimia Dregeana. Kze. Linnsea, 10.493 J Pappe and Rawson, 46 ; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 1 7 1 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 431. 
Natal and Kaffraria only ; in rather dry bush. 
Kaff. — Outskirts of forest below Evelyn Valley (Leighton), not uncommon 
at Kei mouth (Flanagan), between the Omsamwobo and Omsamcaba 
(Drege). 
Natal. — Banks of Palmiet, and other streams behind the Berea, lnanda, 
Maritzburg, Noodsberg (M‘Ken), Umpumulo (Buchanan), collected 
also by Gueinzius and Krauss (370). 
152. Aneimia tomentosa. Sw. 
Plate CXLIX. Natural size. 
Stipe nine inches long, firm, channelled, and bearing one 
barren and two fertile divisions. Barren frond two-pinnate, nine 
inches long, four inches broad, tapering from the base upward, and 
having about twelve pairs of alternate spreading pinnae, which are 
one to two and a half inches long, three-quarters to one inch 
broad, sessile or almost so, and cut to the mid-rib into about five 
pairs of rather distant, alternate, oblique pinnules, half-inch long, 
and hardly so broad, which are somewhat decurrent on the lower 
side, and mostly have a wide connection with the rachis, and are 
more or less confluent upward. Upper pinnae cut only halfway to 
the rachis. Fertile spikes shortly stalked, narrow, and cut almost 
similarly to the barren frond, but without lamina, and with the 
narrow pinnae ascending. Whole plant set with short reddish 
tomentum. 
A. tomentosa. Sw. ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 434 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 171. 
A. Schimperiana. Presl. 
