Flora of the Leribe Plateau and E.nvirons. 109 



acuminate acute glabrous bracts, connate at the base to form a 

 shallow saucer-si i aped structure. Umbel up to about 15-flowered. 

 Pedicels 2 mm. long, elongating in the fruit up to 1 cm. long, glabrous. 

 Calyx obsolete. Petals 1'75 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, ovate, acuminate, 

 acute, incurved, one-nerved, glabrous. Stamens incurved ; filaments 

 1-1 '5 mm. long, terete, glabrous ; anthers '75 mm. long, globose. 

 Ovary 1 mm. long, 1'25 mm. broad, ovate in outline, glabrous; styles 

 obsolete in the flowering stage. Fruit 1*4 cm. long, 6'5 mm. broad, 

 elliptic, crowned with the persistent styles, 5-ribbed (3 dorsal and 

 2 lateral), winged, glabrous: vittae in the furrows. Seed flat, '5 mm. 

 thick. Sesi'/i cuffrum, Meism. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, 533 ; 

 ' Flora Capensis,' ii, 549 ; Anesorhiza caff rum, Bth. & Hook. Gen. 

 Plant, i, 913. 



East Gnqualand, stony places round Kokstad, 4300 ft., December, 

 Tyson, 1672 ; Tyson in Herb. Norm. Austro-Afric., 1279 ; Natal, 

 Inaucla, November, Wood, 1120 ; Amauzinitote, 10-50 ft. alt., August, 

 Wood, 11654 ; Komgha, grassy hills near Konigha, 2000 ft., November, 

 Flanagan, 1090; Leribe, A. Dieterlen, 875. 



MacOwan recognised that this plant had been placed in the wrong 

 genus, and he distributed specimens as Pencedanuni Meisnerianum 

 (Herb. Norm. Avstro-Afric., 1279). Wood (List of Flora of Natal 

 p. 162) quotes this plant under Anesorhiza ca.ffra, Bth. & Hook. 



P. reenensis, Eechiug. 



Natal, Van Reenen, 5-6000 ft,, Penther, 2776. 

 DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



ARALIACEAE. 



CUSSONIA, Thunb. 

 . paniculata, E. & Z. 



Ravines and mountain slopes. A tree, flowers yellowish. Summer. 

 A. Dieterlen, 122 ! ; a large tree growing under the cliffs on the mountain 

 slopes between the Mission Station and Jonathan's Village, Phillips, 

 623! 



DISTRIBUTION : Somerset East. Beaufort West. 



SESUTO : Mot set se. The bony core of a horn. The natives have a 

 strong belief that some of their complaints are due to the presence of 

 beetles and other " insects " in their internal organs, which have been 

 introduced by witchcraft. A preparation is made from the plant and 

 taken as an enema to get rid of such "beetles" from the intestines. 

 Mixed with Rhus Zeyheri, R. divaricata, and Scabiosa columbaria, Linn., 

 it is used in cases of colic. 



