478 POLYGONACES (Wright). | Rumen. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; North Hoek, Jie, 164! Riversdale Div. ; 
between Zoetmelks River and Little Vet River, Burchell, 6817! Riversdale, 
Schlechter, 1997! Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Alexander Prior! Zwartkops River, 
Ecklon! Zeyher, 106! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 
1410! Howisons Poort, Cooper, 3056! and without precise locality, Bowker ! 
Alexander Prior! British Kaftraria, Cooper, 362 ! 
CentTRAL Recion: Gratf Reinet Div. ; Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 431! 
Thornton, 200! Colesberg, Shaw ! 
WESTERN Recion: Little Namaqualand ; mouth of the Orange River, Dreéye ! 
KaaHari Reaion: Griqualand West ; Griquatown, Burchell, 1926! Transvaal ; 
various localities, Wilms, 1278! Burtt-Dary, 903! 1250! 1526! 1618! 2503! 
Miss Leendertz, 1542! 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 282! Griqualand East ; Vaal 
Bank, Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 4191! Natal ; Upper Umlaas River, Wood, 3161 ! 
13. R. dregeanus (Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 496) ; a glabrous erect 
herb ; upper leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes the uppermost 
hastate, 1 in. long, 5—6 lin. wide, subacute ; panicle terminal, leafless, 
about 1 ft. long; branches ascending; whorls 6-—12-flowered ; 
flowers dicwcious ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, slender, arching, jointed. at 
the middle ; inner perianth-segments oval-orbicular, deeply cordate 
at the base, naked, reticulately veined, not warted. Drége, Zwei 
Pfl. Documente, 159, BR. Dregei, Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv, 68. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; near Durban, below 200 ft., Dréye. 
This may be conspecific with R, Woodii, N. E. Br. 
14. R. Woodii (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 187); a herb 
1-2} ft. high ; radical leaves linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic- 
lanceolate, more rarely hastate-lanceolate or ovate, acute or obtuse, 
3-6 in. long (including the petiole), 3-13 in. wide; cauline leaves 
becoming gradually smaller upwards; ochree entire, truncate, 
membranous, 4-7 lin. long; panicle leafless, glabrous, 23-8 in. 
long, with suberect branches; flowers dicecious ; pedicels filiform, 
jointed below the middle; outer perianth-segments in fruit re- 
flexed, linear-lanceolate, acute, concave ; inner elliptic- or orbicular- 
cordate, obtuse, 5-8 lin. long, 4~7 lin. wide, entire, thinly scarious, 
reticulate, not warted ; nutlet lanceolate, subacuminate, triquetrous 
or almost winged. 
Centrat Recion; Somerset Div. ; Boschberg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1857! 
Karanart Reeton: Orange River Colony; low-lying Veld at Bethlehem, 
Richardson! Transvaal; north and south of Carolina in sandy soil, 5800 ft., 
Burtt-Davy, 2714! Ermelo Experimental Farm, 5575 ft., Burtt-Davy, 3919! 
Wemmers Hoek, Lydenburg, 5400 ft., Burtt-Dary, 7625! 
Eastern Region: Natal; Itafamasi, Wood, 644! near Lambonjwa River, 
4000 ft., Wood, 3583! ; 
15. R. crispus (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 335); an erect robust herb 
2-4 ft. high ; radical leaves 5—9 in. long, acute, acute to cordate at 
the base, undulate; cauline leaves lanceolate, the upper almost 
linear, all petioled ; panicles terminal, leafless or with 1—2 leaves in 
the lower part; whorls approximate, many-flowered ; pedicels 
slender, jointed near the base; inner perianth-segments sub- 
