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R. sp. (probably R. plebeius, B. Br.). 

 Leribe, A. Dieterlen, 899 ! 



SESUTO : Hlapi ea loti. The fish of the high mountain. 

 This is a very fragmentary specimen. 



B. sp. 



Swampy ground near Buffalo River Waterfall, 8150 ft., March, 

 Galpin, 6565 ! 



A slender creeping plant, rooting at the nodes. Leaves about 2 mm. 

 long and 4 mm. broad, cordate and faintly 5-lobed. 



MENISPERMACEAE. 

 STEPHANIA, Lour. 



S. hermadiaefolia, Walp. 



Mountain slopes. A climber, flowers cream. Spring-Summer. A. 

 Dieterlen, 506 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Pondoland. East G-riqualand. Natal. Swaziland. 



SESUTO : Lesibo. Derived from the verb " ho siba " to discover. 



This plant is much used by the witch-doctors in working the divining 

 bones when wishing to discover anything lost, or some secret matter. 



PAPAVERACEAE. 



PAPAVER, Linn. 



P. aculeatum, Thunb. 



Veld, and as a weed in cultivated ground. Herb, 6-35 in. high, 

 flowers reddish-yellow. Spring-Summer. A.Dieterlen,34t7l; mountain 

 slopes above the Mission Station, flowers brick-red, Phillips, 511!; 

 Mont-aux-Sources, 8000 ft., April, Dyke in Herb. Marloth, 5407! in 

 Herb. Musei Austro-Afric. 5521 ! 



DISTRIBUTION: Uitenhage. Somerset East. Murraysburg. Komgha. 

 Natal. Orange Free State (Sand Drift). 



SESUTO : Sehlohlo. He who causes auger. Name given on account 

 of the thorny nature of the plant. 



AEGEMONE, Linn. 



A. mexicana, Linn. 



Mountain slopes, road-sides, and near villages. Herbaceous plant 

 10-35 in. high, flowers pale yellow. Spring-Summer. A. Dieterlen, 

 350! 



