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Erecto-patent, nearly horizontal both from and across the rachis. 
Exserted, extending outside. 
Falcate, sickle shaped. 
Fee, Genera Filicum. 
Ferns of African Islands ... ••• • •• 34 
Fertilisation ... ... ... ... • ••• ••• 7 
Feruginous, rusty brown. 
Fibrillose, having long narrow fibre-like scales. 
Filament ... ... ... ... • • • ■ ■ • • • ■ • 2 39 
Filiform, long and narrow, like a hair. 
Flabellate, fan shaped. 
Flaccid, limp. 
Foliaceous, leafy. 
Forsk, FI. /Eq. Arab. 1775. 
Free veins, veins not anastomosing. 
Frond ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 5 
Gerrard, W. T., formerly resident in Natal. 
Glabrous, without hairs. 
Glands, enlarged cells, often on the top of jointed hairs. 
Glandular hairs, hairs bearing glands. 
Glaucous, sea-green colour. 
Harvey’s Genera of Cape Plants ... ... ... ... ... ... 19 
,, ,, ,, 2nd edition ... .. ... 20 
Hastate, halbert shaped with two tails. 
Herbaceous, with soft green lamina, i.e. not leathery. 
Herbarium ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 
Herb. Gub., Government Herbarium, Cape Town ... ... 23 
Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanum ... ... ... ... ... 24 
Hooker, Filices Exoticse ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 
Hooker, Genera Filicum ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 19 
,, leones Plantarum ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 
,, Species Filicum -- Hk. Sp. ... ... ... ... 19 
Hk. and Arn., Hooker and Arnott. 
Hk. and Bkr. , Hooker and Baker Synopsis Filicum ... ... ... 20 
,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 2nd edition ... 21 
Hk. and Gr., Hooker and Greville leones Filicum. 
Icon. Plant., Hooker’s leones Plantarum ... ... ... ... ... 21 
Identification... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 15 
Imbricated, closely overlapping. 
Immersed, sunk in the substance of the frond. 
Indusium ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 5 
Inflexed, turned inward. 
Intra-marginal, a short distance within the margin. 
