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longs to tropical Southwest Africa, where it is found along the lower 

 part of the Niger River. E. septentrionalis , the northernmost species, 

 is in central Africa in the Niam-Niam region. 



Information is rapidly accumulating for a much more thorough 

 and accurate account of the geographical distribution of this genus 

 than has been written. 



Stangeria paradoxa. — ^The final genus of the family, Stangeria, was 

 long classed with the ferns, being so near like Lomaria, a common 

 tropical genus of the Polypodiaceae, that it was not even described 

 as a separate genus (fig. 65). When seeds were discovered, it was 

 named Stangeria and was given the specific name because it looked 

 Uke a fern but was not a member of that assemblage. It is abundant 

 in Zululand, and may occur a little farther north, and extends to the 

 neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. It is probably monotypic, although 

 forms growing in the bush veldt and those in the grass veldt look 

 different. It does not get very far from the coast. In Zululand it is 

 associated with Encephalartos brachyphyllus, and, in the East Lon- 

 don region, with E. villosus and E. altensteinii. 



