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several plants from the East London grass veldt and sent them to 

 our greenhouse at the University of Chicago, where after three 

 years of the usual unnatural conditions they are producing leaves 

 and cones as large as those of the bush veldt form. 



Near Mtunzini in Zululand the grass veldt stretches for miles, 

 rolling and hilly, broken by huge rocks of granite and gneiss, and 



Fig. i. — Slang 

 Zululand. 



parado 





iMi at Ngoj'e, near Mtunzii 



occasionally with exposed surfaces covered only with Selaginella 

 and lichens. The grass is -;o 40 cm. high, and appearing above it 

 are the leaves of Stangeria (tig. 1 ). The leaves are larger and more 

 numerous than in the East London district, three or four leaves 

 being common, and some stems having fine crowns of five or six 

 leaves. 



The plants are fairly abundant, as many as 20 being in sight 

 at one time; but the specimens are scattered, with no crowded 

 masses like the thickets of Macrozamia spiralis and Bowenia scrru- 

 lata in Australia. Although adult plants are numerous, cones are 



