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Acacia glandulifera, Schinz. — British Central Africa, Kwebe 



Hills, near Lake Ngami, N'Gamiland, 3,000 ft. alt., Mrs. E. J. 



Lugard, 14, 16, who notes that it is a bush 6 ft. high ; the capitate, 



yellow flowers were collected Aug. 16, 1897, the fruit Sept. 27, and 



the leaves Feb. 8, 1898. I have collected it at Potgieter in the 



Waterberg district (about 4,000 ft.), Leydsdorp in the Zoutpansberg 



district (2,000 ft,), and near Bremersdorp in Swaziland (2,700 ft.). 



Though it is thus widely distributed it does not appear to be 



common with us. I have only found it in bush form, from 4 to 

 6 ft. high. 



Acacia hebeclada, DC— Vaal River, May, Burke, 522 ; Aapjies 

 River, Zeyher, 569 ; extending to Lake River, N'Gamiland, 

 Lugard, in horb. Kew ; Griqualand West ; Gross Namaland ; 

 Hereroland and " Kimene-Zambesi Expedition " (herb. Zurich). 



Acacia (heteracantha, Benth ?). — The type specimen of 

 A. heteracantha is barren and very incomplete, but Burchell's 

 label describes it as a "tree of 20 ft., legume like that of 

 A capmsia » (,.,., A Jwrrida, Willd.). I have seen no Transvaal 

 material which can be referred here with certainty. 



Acacia horrida, Willd. "Zoetdoorn ; Sweet thorn."— Of this, 

 tJie most common and widely distributed of our Acacias, the only 

 lransvaal material at Kew is Nekon, 214, from Bloemhof, an 

 incomplete specimen. This and my own specimens from the dry 

 western and south-western districts agree well with those from 

 Uape Colony, being equally glabrous. 



The form met with in moist soils at the foot of kopjies, or near 

 ronteins and streams, around Pretoria and on the high veld, is 

 pubescent or. the younger parts, which character appears to be 

 constant; in no other respect does it seem to differ from the 

 typical iorm As a geographical variety I think it is well to give 



distinctly appellation and therefore propose to call it var. 

 h, r w a \ Dd 7' Var - nov - The young bark is orange-brown, 



nftpr T meS i Hl f ° St black in a ? e > ifc is remarkably tough, and is 

 havp ,t iPP + t d \° Y , Use ? r °P e or ^rdage and in basket work ; T 

 wUh if %l b . r ° ken le ^ of a cow deftly and firmly bandaged 

 mmSJT / T n ? are as variable in size as those of A hetera- 

 Sche? W me 5 I ? te ar - e 8 P 5neless > others bear spines three to four 

 iSwtinSS' / n 1VOry whi teness. The flowers are borne in 



large panicles, are deep \ 

 vernacular name. 



grant 



White 



, no. IIUUC 



pubescenc 



niana SehinV wT / Puoescence it is much like A. B<>hwan- 



KTiSSSlS?^ leg ^ mes are lar ^ e and w °ody, in shape a 

 £^^£1 th ° Se ° f A ' h ^cladl but longer, glabrous and 



be n^ale ^1 W 1S p? Ulte , different *« tha * of A. lirhmanninna, 

 aeing pale yellow, soft and papery, at length flaking off. 



