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HALLERIA, Linn. 

 H. lucida. Linn. 



Among rocks on mountain slopes. Shrub, 1-4 ft. high, flowers 

 reddish-brown. Spring. A. Dieterlen, 179 !; Basutoland, without 

 precise locality, among rocks, flowers yellow, Cooper, 701 ! 



DISTRIBUTION: Clanwilliam. Worcester. Paarl. Cape. Caledou. 

 Swellendam. Uitenhage. Bathurst. Albany. Somerset East. Wode- 

 house. Port Elizabeth. King William's Town. Stockenstroom. East 

 Grriqualaud. Natal. Transvaal (Pretoria, Lydenburg). 



SESUTO : Lebetsa. He who throws. In spring the plant is burnt 

 and the ashes mixed with fat. The mixture is smeared on pegs which 

 are placed in the ground round the village and cultivated lands as a 

 charm against evil. This custom is renewed every year for each 

 heathen village. In autumn the fruits are buried in the ground to 

 hasten their ripening. Native children suck the juice from the 

 flowers. 



PHYGELIUS, E. Mey. 

 P. capensis, E. Mey. 



Banks of Caledon River, Leribe District. 20-45 in. high, flowers 

 bright red. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 456 ! ; Eland's River Valley, near 

 Mout-aux-Sources, 6000 ft. January, Flanagan, 2018! 2019 !; streamlet, 

 near Buffalo River Waterfall, 7800 ft., March, flowers red, Galpin, 

 6790 ! ; Basutoland, without precise locality, Cooper, 2818 ; by streams 

 on Wittebergen, 5-7000 ft., Dr!>ge, 7875. 



DISTRIBUTION : Albany. Stockenstroom. Bedford. Queeustown. 

 Somerset East. Grraaff Reiuet. Murraysburg. Albert. East Griqualand. 



SESUTO : Mafifi-maiso. Black darkness (so named because the plant 

 turns black when dried). Metsi-matso. Black water. The powder 

 from the burnt roots is placed in incisions made on the body to cure 

 numbness in the limbs. Used by witch-doctors as a charm against 

 hail damaging the crops. 



P. aequalis, Harv. 



Eland's River Mtn., 7600 ft., SchlecUer, 3848; Eland's River, near 

 the Mont-aux- Sources, 6000 ft., January, Flanagan, 2019 ! ; Basutoland 

 at 8000 ft., Sanderson (Hellish), 645. ' 



DISTRIBUTION : Natal. Transvaal (MacMac, Barberton, Lyden- 

 burg). 



BOWKERIA, Harv. 

 B. simplicifolia, MacOw. 



Eland's River, near the Mont-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., Flanagan, 2000 ; 

 Van Reenen, 5-6000 ft., Wood, 5256. 



