260 
The Ferns of South Africa. 
on average plants three-quarter inch long, three-quarter inch 
broad, with a broadly cuneate base, and rounded, crenate, or 
occasionally emarginate, outer edge. Capsules produced mostly 
on shorter branches, often after the leaves are decayed, two to 
three lines long, one to one and a half lines broad, oval oblong, 
shortly pointed at the lower corner, adnate by nearly the whole 
base to the half-inch stipe. 
M. macrocarpa. Presl. ; Baker, Fern Allies, 144 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 199. 
M. Dregeana. A. Br. 
“ Cape — (Drege, E. and Z., Burchell),” Kuhn. 
Kafif. — East London, King William’s Town, Breakfast Vley, Frankfort, 
&c. 
Natal. — (Baker). 
Transvaal. — Pretoria (Dr. Rehmann). 
