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arrived. At any rate, trees grow rapidly on the velts, especially on the 

 mountain sides, and if the forestation continues, within a short time 

 there will not only be an abundance of lumber, but the climate of the 

 country will be vastly improved. 



Stangeria and two species of Encephalartos grow in the neighbor- 

 hood, but are not abundant. There are gorgeous flowers on the 

 grass velts, and in the ravines, or kloofs, there are many ferns and 

 lycopodiums. 



The next point on my schedule was Queenstown, not very far from 

 Cedara, as the crow flies, but quite remote as South African railways 

 go, through Ladysmith, Bethlehem, Bloomfontein and Springfontein, 

 names made familiar by the Boer war, a country dotted with monu- 

 ments and cemeteries. 



At Queenstown, the president of the bank, Mr. E. E. Galpin, is a 

 fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He kindly arranged for a 

 day's absence from the bank and not only showed me a great display 

 of Enceplialartos Frederici Guiliehni, a species I had never seen, but 

 gave me valuable information which only a competent observer could 

 give after many years' acquaintance with the locality. Mr. Galpin 

 also facilitated my work at Cathcart and gave me directions for finding 

 Enceplialartos Lehmannii, which, as yet, I had seen only in gardens. 

 Near the Kei Biver, where I found this species, Euphorbia tetragona 

 is a prominent feature of the landscape, a big tree, reaching a height 



Fig. 9. View in Botanical Garden at Port Elizabeth. 



