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this ; it resembles a specimen from Inanda, Natal. Placed in 

 Wehera at Kew. It should also be compared with T. glabra, 

 Hiern, 



Vangueria edulis, Vahl. — In fructicetis prope Potgieters Rust, 

 alt. ca. 3,600 ft., Feb. 1904, Bolus, 11016. "This is an extra 

 tropical outlier/ 1 



Vangueria euonymoides, Schweinf. Delagoa Bay, closely re- 

 sembles Kraussia lanceolata. 



Vangueria infausta, Burch. — Near Lydenburg, Dr. Atherstone, 

 Dec. 1873. — Jan. 1874 ; Kalahari, Burchell (Klipfontein), frutex 

 5-10 pedalis ; Delagoa Bay, Forbes ; Natal, Bashee River, Fort 

 Bowker, " on the skirtings of forests and kloofs. 1 ' " Fruit ripens in 

 Autumn ; an excellent fruit tree — the fruit of this tree surpasses 

 that of the English medlar, 11 M. E. Bowker ; Macalisberg, Nov., 

 Burke, 250 ; in collibus circa Pretoria, J. H. McLea. 



Vangueria latifolia, Sand. — All Transvaal material at Kew 

 appears to be referred to V. infausta. 



Vangueria longipes, Gonrath MS. (type Gonrath, 343). — Jeppes- 



town Ridge, Johannesburg, about 6,000 ft., Dec. 1898, D. F. Gilfillan, 

 ex herb. Galpin, 6118. 



Vangueria parvifolia, Sand. — Crocodile River, Nov., Burke (lvs. 

 small densely pubescent) type ; Macaliesberg, fls. Nov., Burke ; 

 Johannesburg, ridges above Jeppestown alt. 6,000 ft., Oct. 1898, 

 frts. Dec, D. F. Gilfillan, ex herb. Galpin, 6012 ; Pretoria, Aapies- 

 poort, Rehmann, 4142 ; colles supra Aapies River, Rehmaun, 4246. 



Vangueria venosa, Sond. — Barberton, grassy fields, 2,800-3,000 

 ft., shrublet 12-24 inches high, Oct, 1890, Galpin, 1109. 



SANTALACEAE. 



Colpoon compressum, Berg., Descr. PL Cap. p. 38, 1. 1, p. 1 (1767). 

 {Fusanus compresstis, Murray, Syst. Veg. eel. 13, p. 765 (1774). 

 TJiesium colpoon, Linn. f. SuppL 161 (1781) ; Thunb. Prod 46 

 (1794) ; and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, p. 211. Euonymus colpoon. 

 Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 574 (1786). Osyris compressa, A. DC. in DC. 

 Prod. xiv. p. 634 (1657) ).— I am indebted to a MS. note in the Kew 

 herbarium for these synonyms. The Transvaal material at Kew. 

 at one time assigned here, is now referred to Osyris abyssinka ; 

 the foliage of the one resembles that of the other very closely. 1 

 have not yet collected it in frnit and am therefore unable to say 

 with certainty that we have Colpoon compressum with us. Both 

 are said to be used for tanning ; the leaves of Colpoon compressum 

 are at times exported in considerable quantity from Cape Colony, 

 under the name of " Berg-bast " or " Cape Sumach." There are 

 the following specimens at Kew :— Camps Bay, Burchell, 842, 

 368 ; Simons Bay, Grey, Wright ; Table Mountain, near Cape 

 Town, MacOwan, in Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr. 574, Drege. ; near 

 Grahamstown, MacOwan, 43; Natal, near Miirchisons, Wood, 

 3004 ; Eastern Districts, Cooper, 50 (called " Bark Bosch, used for 



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