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9 ann . / >aa * a ■ Barberton, grassy plains and hillsides, 



4, 800- 4, 000 ft., fls. creamy white, Oct -Nov. 1880, Galpin, 603 

 (type in herb. Kew). Leaves densely rusty-tomentose beneath 

 in aspect somewhat resembling Vangueria infausta except for 

 the difference in colouring of the pubescence. 



Royena hirsuta, L.— Watervall Riviere, near Lydenburg, Sept 

 1885. Wilms, 919 ; Rehmann, 4334, in herb. Kew ; Pretoria,* 

 colles supra Aapies River, is so labelled by Hiern, but appears to 

 be i?. villosa, which see. 



Royena lucida, L.— No Transvaal material at Kew. 



Royena nitens, Hiern.— Barberton, grassy plains, 2,800 ft., ''ripe 

 fruit, oblong, plum colour," shrub lf-2 ft., fls. Sept.-Oct., 1889, 

 Galpin, 568 ; in monte Sheba, prope Barberton, ca. 3,900 ft., 

 Sept. 1886, Bolus, 7812 (fls. " white "). 



Royena pallens, Thunb.— Pretoria, Aapjiespoort, Rehmann, 



4000, 1091; "Transvaal," Dr. Emit Holub, in herb. Kew 

 (received May, 1883) ; Crocodile River, Nov., Burke ; Johannes- 

 burg, ridges above Jeppe's Town, alt. about 6,000 ft,, Sept. 1808, 

 D. F. Gdfillan, ex herb. Galpin, 6042 ; near large waterfall,, 

 near Lydenburg, Oct. 1802, Wilms, 021 ; near Barberton, banks 

 of Crocodile River, alt. 1,500 ft,, shrub 2$ ft,, Sept. 1800, Galpin, 

 1004 (labelled u R. sericea, Burch."); Shilouvane, plains, shrub 



1-2 m., Sept. 1800, Junod, <*>22 ; Vaal River at Bloemhof, Davy 



Royena (sp. nov. ?).— My 5204 (immature) from Warmbaths, 

 Jan. 1906, appears to be nearer to R. usambarensis, Gurke, than to 

 anything else at Kew, but the leaves of the Kew specimen 

 (Gurke, 2162a) are shorter and more abruptly acute, with longer 

 petioles and distinctly hirsute shoots. 



Royena villosa, L.— No Transvaal material at Kew (unless 

 Rehmann, 4334 is this, " Pretoria colles supra Aapies River ") ; 

 the leaves are more obtuse and broader than in R. hirsuta, but 

 smaller than in typical R. villosa. 



Royena Wilmsii, Gurke.— 'Sear Pretoria, Dec. 1883, Wilms, 923; 

 " In collibus prope Pretoria," alt. 4,100 ft., Sept., J. H. McLea, ex 

 herb. Bolus, 3103, in herb. Kew. In Flora Capensis Hiern has 

 called this specimen R. cordata, and has so marked the Kew 

 sheet, but it is totally different from that species as recognised by 

 him in other cases. This is the species of the Houtboschberg 

 forests known to us as R. lucida, the " Zwaart-bast " of the Cape. 



EUPHORBIACEAE. 



Antidesma venosum, B. Mey. — Avoca near Barberton, Galpin, 

 124'), "shrub 10-15 ft." ; this is a form with very obtuse leaves, 

 and the Kew sheet is marked as " = Monteiro, Angola speci- 

 mens"; Lydenburg District, between Spitzkop ani Komatie 

 River, Wilms, 206. 



Bridelia micrantha, BailL — Uehbokdraai, between Neifipruit and 

 Spitzkop, 3,300 ft. alt, Davy y 3205 ; Zoutpansberg, streamlet 



