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Large widely branching tree with yellowish, flaking bark. 
Branchlets densely pubescent with yellowish spreading hairs, 
the young parts somewhat golden-tomentose. Spines short 
(4 mm. long) ascending, straight, subulate with a thickened 
base, pubescent. Leaf-rhachis 3-5-6-5 cm. long, pubescent; 
petiole4mm. long. Pinnae 8-25 (rarely up to 35) pairs, 2 cm. ee 
leaflets 25-40 pairs, silky ciliate, 3-5 mm. long, 1-1-5 mm. 
broad. Peduncles 2° 5-3 cm. long, pubescent, axillary and Hi st 
or in pairs, often collected in terminal racemes on short lateral 
branchlets; involucel usually rather above (rarely below) the 
middle, prominent, persistent. Receptacles without golden-yellow 
hairs; bracteoles of receptacle 2 mm. long, cucullate, pale 
coloured, glabrous within, hairy with a tuft of usually golden- 
yellow hairs; claw linear, ciliate. Calyx-lobes whitish-tomentose. 
Pod 14-15 em. long, 1-7-2-5 em. thick, with rounded margins, 
woody, dehiscent, grey-green when young, yellowish-brown when 
mature, glabrous, 
87. Kissenia spathulata, R. Br. ex Harv. et sent Fl, Cap. 
ii. 503. Fissenia capensis, R. Br., Harv. Thes. i. 
Harvey, l.c., cites the Aapjes River, oui veck as one of the 
localities for this species, on the strength of a specimen collected 
by Dr. Atherstone. The plant is a native of Bushmanland, 
Namaqualand and Arabia (if the reference of the South African 
plant to the Arabian species is correct), a distribution which 
renders it unlikely that such a very distinct desert type should 
occur in the vicinity of the Aapjes River, in the relatively well- 
watered Pretoria District. Atherstone is known to have collected 
along the Aapjes River, near Pretoria, which fact probably 
misled Harvey, but the label on Atherstone’s Kew specimen of 
Kissenia reads :—‘‘ From sandy flats near the An Aap River 
which runs into the Orange R., Namaqualand”; the Aapjes 
River does not flow into the Orange, and it is not in, nor near 
Namaqualand. We may therefore eliminate Kissenia spathulata, 
R.Br., and with it the Family Loasaceae, from the list of Transvaal 
plant g. 
88. Flaveria contrayerba, Pers., Syn. ii, 489 (1807). 
Oo Arrica, Griqualand West: Barkly Div.; Fourteen 
Streams Railway Station, a few plants by the railway track near 
the goods shed, April 1, 1920, Burtt Davy 18966! 
Native of South America (Peru and Chile). An interesting 
addition to the South African flora, and one which may possibly 
become a troublesome weed if allowed. to spread. 
89. Gomphrena decumbens, Jacg., Hort. Schoenbr. t. 482. 
Sourn Arrica. Transvaal: Heidelberg Distr., Vereeniging, 
a@ common weed of roadsides, railway tracks, and ‘waste places, 
1908, Burtt Davy! Burttholm, a garden weed, 1914, but 
not common Burtt Davy! Pretoria Distr.; Haaman’s Kraal, 
1903, Burtt Davy 1099! Waterberg Distr. : Potgietersrust, 
Leendertz 1888 ! Rustenburg Distr. ; Rustenburg, Nation 180! 
Barberton Distr.; Barberton, in 1903, Burtt Davy 274! 
