Flora of the Lerlbe Plateau and Environ*. *> 



AMPELIDEAE. 

 RHOICISSUS, Planch, 



R. (Cissus) cuneifolia. Planch. 



Mountain slopes, trailing on rocks or shrubs, flowers yellowish- 

 green. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 83!; growing under cliffs on west 

 slopes of Leribe plateau, Phillips, 620 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Uitenhage. Albany. Somerset East. King- 

 William's Town. Komgha. East Griqualand. Natal. Orange 

 Free State (nr. Parys). Transvaal (Crocodile and Magalies Rivers). 

 Bechuaualand. Rhodesia (Grwelo). 



SESTJTO : Morara. The creeper. The fruits are eaten by children in 

 late autumn. The plant is cooked and drunk by sterile women in 

 order to become pregnant. Also used as a charm by a chief when he 

 establishes a new village. 



SAPIXDACEAE. 



MELIANTHUS, Linn. 



M. villosus, Bolus. 



Eland's River Valley, near Mont-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., January, 

 Flanagan, 2004 ! ; on a rocky hill, Weeneu County, 4-5000 ft., December, 

 Wood, 4376 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



GREYIA, Hook & Harv. 



G. Sutherland], Hook. & Harv. 



Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 5700 ft., December, Bolus, 

 8137! 



DISTRIBUTION : Stutterheim. Tenibuland. Natal. Orange Free 

 State. Transvaal (Slaiigapie Mtns., Macamac). 



ANACARDIACEAE. 



RHUS, Linn. 



R. discolor, E. Mey. 



Mountain slopes. 1-3 ft. high, flowers yellowish. Summer. A. 

 Dieterlen, 29 ! 29b ! ; slopes of ravine between the Mission Station and 

 Jonathan's village, common, Phillips, 551 ! ; low bush, 9-12 in. high, 

 common, PhUU})*, 614 ! 844 ! ; Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 

 5500 ft., Flanagan, 1864! December, Bolus, 8138! 



