250 Annals of the South African Museum. 



DISTRIBUTION: Cape. Beaufort West. Murraysburg. Richmond. 

 Graaff Reiuet. Komglia. Transvaal (Standerton, Warm Bath). 



SESUTO : Serue. Pagekoane. Meanings unknown. The young 

 plant is used as a vegetable. Madame Dieterlen states that the dis- 

 agreeable smell of the fresh plant disappears on cooking, and that it 

 makes a very pleasant dish. 



C. foetidum, Schrad. 



Veld and cultivated lauds. 5-35 in. high, flowers green. Summer- 

 Autumn. A. Dieterlen, 22 ! ; Qoqolosi Peak, flowers greenish, Phillips,. 

 936! 



DISTRIBUTION : An introduced weed. 



SESUTO : Mokhankla. He who smells. Use unknown. 



ROUBIEVA, Moq. 

 R. multifida, Moq. 



Veld and mountain slopes. 5-20 in. high, flowers whitish. Summer. 

 A. Dieterlen, 664 ! 



DISTRIBUTION: Cape. Albany. Transvaal (Standerton). 



SESUTO : Setla boeha. The new-comer. Mokhankla. He who 

 smells. Use unknown. 



PHYTOLACCACEAE. 



PHYTOLACCA, Linn. 

 P. heptandra, Retz. 



Dongas and mountain slopes. 6-25 in. high, flowers reddish-yellow. 

 Spring-Summer. A. Dieterlen, 48a ! 48b ! ; south slopes of Leribe 

 plateau above Khaniane near rocks, fruits red and fleshy, Phillips, 

 904!; Harrismith, Sankey, 239; Aliwal North, bank of Orange River, 

 Burke. 



DISTRIBUTION : Fort Beaufort. Queenstown. Graaff Reinet. 

 Albert. Transkei. East Griqualaud. Natal. Transvaal (Aapie's 

 River, near Lydenburg). 



SESUTO : Monatja and Monatsoana. Both words mean " a small 

 pleasant taste (of food)." Some natives say that the fruits may be 

 eaten and have rather a pleasant taste, but that the root is poisonous ; 

 Madame Dieterlen remarks on the fact that everything in the plant 

 " line " which is edible is eagerly sought for by the natives, so much 

 so that some species, e.g. Schizoglossum spp., have become very rare 

 even within her own recollection, yet the above plant, which is plentiful 

 round some parts of Leribe slopes, may always be found in fruit, 

 showing that the natives do not eat them. 



