THREE NOTEWORTHY SPECIES OF PLANTS. 43 1 



ovate, shortly acuminate, acute, glabrous. Iin'olucre peduncled, 

 6-8 mm. in diameter, more or less campanulate, glabrous, with 

 5 glands and 5 more or less quadrate lobes, fimbriated at their 

 truncate apices. Glands 7 mm. long, broadly cuneate, palmatifid, 

 lobes 3-6, which are divided near the apex something like a rein- 

 deer's horn. Oz^ary peduncled, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter, 

 glabrous; style united for 2 mm., and then divided into 3 arcuate 

 lobes about 4 mm. long; stigma terminal, capitate; peduncle 5-7 

 mm. long, glabrous. 



Transvaal : Lydenburg District, Lydenburg. Jeppe in 

 National Herb. 1052. Flowered in garden. Division of Botany, 

 Pretoria, Jan., 1919. Garden No. 6619. 



This species of Euphorbia is a native of Angola and 

 Tropical Bechuanaland, and living plants were first sent to Kew 

 in 1864 bv Mr. Joachim Monteiro. It flowered in the Cactus- 

 house at Kew the following year, and was then described and 

 figured by Hooker in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5534. Our plant 

 was sent in by Judge Carl Jeppe, who has contributed many 

 valuable living specimens to the Division of Botany. It was 

 collected at Lydenburg, in the Transvaal, and flowered at Pretoria 

 in Janliary, 1919. This is the first record we have of this species 

 from South Africa, and it is not mentioned in the recently pub- 

 lished monograph in the " Flora 'Capensis " on the genus 

 Euphorbia. For the identification of the species I am indebted 

 to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



SOME NATIVE EDIBLE FLESHY FRUITS REPRE- 

 SENTED IN THE MUSEUM OF THE NATIONAL 

 HERBARIUM, PRETORIA. 



Miss K. A. Lansdell. 



(Title only.) 



WITCHCRAFT: THE GREAT OPPOSING FACTOR TO 



PROGRESS. 



By Rev. J. R. L. Kingon, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



(Title only.) 



THE PLACE OF CATTLE AS A FACTOR IN NATIVE 

 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 



By Rev. J. R. L. Kingon, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 

 (Title onlv.) 



