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banks of the Tacazze River, Schimper, 700; Gageros, Schimper, 106; Bege- 
meder ; near Gafat, Steudner, 1344! 1345; Sennar, Duke of Wiirtemberg. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bumbo; at the base of the Chella Mountains, 
Welwitsch, 6334! at a stream in Chao da Xella, Welwitsch, 6332b! Loanda ; 
district of Malange, Gossweiler, 1102! Mossamedes; banks of the Kakulovar 
River, near N’jambi, Pearson, 2011! between Matukua and Ediva, at about 
3800 ft., Baum, 969! Huille, Antunes, 99; at the banks of rivers and 
streams about Lopollo, Monino and the Ivantala lake, Welwitsch, 63321! 
6333 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Northern Kinga (Livingstone) 
Mountains ; Ussangu, Goetze, 999! 
Also in Lower Egypt, Syria and Palestine. 
Var. cyathipoda, Anderss, in Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh. vi. (1867) no. 1, 10, 
and in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 196. Capsule usually smaller, ellipsoid or ovoid- 
ellipsoid, narrower or sometimes acute at the base.—Kngl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 189; Seemen in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 375; Pirotta in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, viii. 255. S. blumhardtiana, Schimp. ex Hochst. in Flora, xxiv. 
(1841) i. Intell. 21. 8. cyathipoda, Anderss, in A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 275. 
S. axillaris, Anderss. l.c. S. Safsaf, forma abyssinica, Anderss. in Vet.-Akad. 
Handl. Stockh. vi. (1867) no. 1, 11. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Amasen and Az Taclesan, Terracciano & Pappi, 
433, 2115. Abyssinia: Gondar, Schimper! on rivulets near Assai, Quartin- 
Dillon ; Wojerat, Petit ; Tigre; near Adowa, Schimper, 625; Mount Sholoda ; 
Schimper, 250! Urahut; on Mount Errareta, Schimper, 623; and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 13! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uhehe; Iringa, (Goetze, 648. 
Rhodesia : River Kafulafuta, at 4000 ft., Rogers, 8312! Batoka Highlands, 
at 3000 ft., Kirk! Victoria, Munro, 334! 
S. nigritina, Seemen in Engi. Jahrb. xxiii. Beibl. 57, 46, from Huilla (Newton, 
178), and S. ramiflora, Seemen, l.c. 45, also from Huilla (Antunes, 93), of 
which I have not seen specimens, are probably referable to 8S. Safsaf, Forsk. 
There is nothing in the descriptions by which they may be distinguished from 
that species. 
2. S. capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. i. 139, and ed. Schult. 31. Shrub 
or tree up to 50 ft. high or more, very much branched ; branchlets 
very slender, sometimes more or less pubescent when young, quite 
glabrous often shining and reddish to dark brown when older. Leaves 
narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely broadly lanceolate, acute 
to acuminate at the apex, more or less cuneate at the base, entire 
or closely or remotely serrulate, usually 2-1} in. rarely up to 2 in. 
long, 14-3 lin. rarely up to 6 lin. broad, often thin, becoming more 
or less coriaceous, glabrous or sometimes slightly pubescent when 
young, green on both sides or green above and glaucescent beneath ; 
petiole 4-2 lin. long ; stipules minute or wanting. Catkins appear- 
ing with the leaves, terminating very short peduncles which bear 
1-5 shortly stalked or sessile leaves similar to the others but usually 
smaller. Male catkins narrowly cylindric, 3-14 in. long. Bracts 
ovate to elliptic or suborbicular, 3-1 lin. long, 3} lin. broad, more 
or less villous inside, villous or glabrous except at the base or some- 
times nearly quite glabrous outside. Disc-glands fleshy, scarcely 
t lin. long. Stamens 4-8 (usually 5 or 6) ; filaments villous below the 
middle. Female catkins cylindric or ovoid, $1 in. long; rhachis 
