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more complete material is required in order to assign the specimens 
from these localities to their right place. 
As is often the case with common plants, there is a scarcity 
in herbaria of material of the common “ Doorn-boom”’ of the 
coastal region of the Cape, and this is required to delimit the 
range, and more clearly define the differences between the two 
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ia permixta, Burtt Davy sp. nov.; affinis A. 
Ni edionte Burtt Davy, sed ramulis hirsutis, pinnis foliolisque 
multioribus, foliolis angustioribus, pedunculis longioribus et 
involucello sub _ medio posito, leguminibus distincte venosis 
differt. 
South AFRICA. “Transvaal : Waterberg District; Potgie- 
tersrust, April 12, 1906, a common shrub on low kopjes, Burtt 
Davy 5230 ! (type). 
Shrub branchlets stoutish, chestnut-brown, hispid with 
short spreading white hairs. Spines 0-5-2 cm. long, straight, 
slender, white with brownish tips, pubescent. when young with 
seattered hairs. Leaves 2-5-3-5 cm. long, arising from abortive 
branchlets forming axillary Seca: cushions clothed with 
light-brown persistent spinulose stipules about 1 mm. long; 
petiole 0-5 cm. long, rhachis and rhachillae pilose, and with 
scattered blackish glands; pinnae 2-4 pairs; leaflets 5-8 pairs, 
about 2 mm. apart on the rhachilla, 4-5 mm. long, 1-5-2 mm. 
broad, with a distinct mucro, sparsely ciliate, thick, glabrescent, 
the veins not prominent. Flowers capitate. Peduncle (of mature 
fruit) 3-3-5 cm. long, pilose with white, spreading hairs, glan- 
dular; involucel 14-2 cm. from the base, about 2 mm. long, 
cupular, lobed, sparsely pa bean, about 2 mm. long. Legume 
3°5-4 cm. long, 1-2-1-4 em. broad, slightly . falcate, obuse ; 
valves subcoriaceous, alae prominently nerved towards the 
margins, epersehy, glandular with dark, raised glands. Seeds 
ibd margin 1 mm. broad. —Confused with A. glandulifera, 
inz 
var. glabra, Burtt Davy, var. nov.; a forma typica ramulis, 
petiolis, pedunculisque, glanduliferis: nec hirsutis, leguminibus 
me (3 cm. longis) engasonbus . mm. latis), differt. 
ijn-doo 
SoutH avait Transvaal : Waterberg District ; Hoogbult 
elie Naboomspruit, forming low thickets 3 ft. high, Galpin 
475 M! (type). This may prove to be a distinct species when 
more complete material is available. 
Acacia Nebrownii, Burtt Davy, is based on A. bea ie 
Schinz, 1900, (not of ‘SS. Watson, 1890), the types of which a 
Fleck 484a from Great Namaqualand, and Fleck 480a 6 
Tsoaxaub, Hereroland. In the Kew Bulletin for 1921, p. 59, 
writing in the absence of Transvaal and Swaziland material, 
I referred the plants there named A. permixta and A. swazica, 
to A. Nebrownti ; specimens courteously lent by the gio 
of the Union Botanical Survey, show that’ three species 
