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allied to certain West African types, does not occur in South 
Africa. The true N. capmm is represented in the Kew 
Herbarium by the following examples :— 
457 Zeyher, in the Zwartkop River, District of Uitenhage ; 
4202 Burchell, collected in Irishman's River, near Rauten- 
bach's Dntt. A!l»;inv Div., Nov 2 IS!;', ihi. i. the m K M)f 
N.scHtifnliu,\).V.-]\ P.. Ecklon and Z-vli-r. 1 8r,, " in rivulo 
prope'Zeekoe-valkn ' (Cap, et in fiuvio -Zwartknp's Rivier' 
(Uitenhage) Jan-Mart " ; 
[In the river at Enon, Uitenhage Division] South Africa, 
r 3 ^,^ 10 ^?? 1 - ' M *">wan, in llnvio Zwank.p,, Fit. 
[c.l8b7];/01Macowanainlliolus ; inr,hv. Hum >Z .rtkop's 
Riyier pr...... T i-. i.1.m_t... I).,- ]SV, : Toll |{. Ba-.r. Knon. b. 
Uitenhage ; 2261 Wolley-Dod, Retreat Vley [leaf doubtful]. 
Other specimens from South Africa referred to X. caprmis, 
, ' ; v ;'y""'"' an.l A. >■//•//„/„. :1)V more or less unsatisfaetorv or 
dMul.ttul. and. hose from .he Transvaal and Za,nb,,si region rather 
approach \:^ /? /A ^Z,^/., ra.pary, a r„ rm „„■„,- I nith 
b .tea H °° k ' fiL and ° ther8 ' but P robab1 ^ a g° od 
X c^wm*. Thunb., seems to be endemic in South Africa 
from Gape Town to the Natal border, in rivers and pools, ehiohv 
near the coast; the forms from Madagascar and the Comoro 
V ; '" v ;i ulv ' '",'' *" f^«.l to the same species appear to be 
; ; fll :;;;V' - species of the gennS evidently 
are, verj local m their distribution. 
„ I!; ]i, ; , •.•: :-'; L' lil .' ™ s doubtless that given by Breyn (Prodr. IT., 
" ^ '" V' V, L ; ;'- ' V '"I'l". a ll.n. ,.,„ ruh-o odoratissimo Capitis 
Bonae Spei" ; Do Candolle quotes the "■- 
•f ' 7 e / , qUOtCS tlie Barae description from the 
edition (!i,v.e. whieh is th(; |h . st „,,,„ |l;i| ' 
this species. It was afterwards oonfonnde,! with ,]„. .ren.less 
and Wolley-Dod (Trans. S. A: .., ' loc ^w 
m type appears from Schnltes' 
to have been collected in the 
frorthrVnT*^ 111 ^ m ° nth ° f December! 0l A «-« 
•■ Wood and rAans in W„/ 
! V'-;'":'-'-- ;i \ A ' .apparently 
fomZed wit v " n °; r A ' ™ther to be 
«*, D( , and ■ immedia* 
and he doe. " h <' ^;-nnens alto,,th,r, 
Saussurea hieracioides, Hook, f.— Mr. J R DrnmmnnH w k„ h« 
ha < 1 <" ^i".i to examin , ,„ - '. ' ' "'"^d, *ho has 
■ v. ., Ileri 
- - -V. hip,., 
die some specii 
. made the following not. 
oides by Sir J. D, Hooker 
