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Sovrm Arrica.—Eastern Region: Pondoland; Faku’s Terri- 
tory, Sutherland. Hast Griqualand; top of Mt. Currie, 2400 m., 
May, Tyson 1254. Natal; stony hill near Murchison, May, 
Wood 3110; near Curry’s Post, Apr., Wood 1007 (Herb. Mus. 
rit.). 
Both the species and variety show .a very decided affinity . 
and close generic connection with Athanasia, especially with 
Athanasia acerosa, Harv., but the receptacular paleae charac- 
teristic of that genus are lacking. The variety is very similar 
to certain species of the genus Chenolea (Chenopodiaceae). 
: Species non visa. 
Matricaria Schlechteri, Bolus ex Schlechter in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xxvii. 208 (1899). 
Sour Arrica.—South-Westera Region: Clanwilliam; Lam- 
bert’s Bay, near the sea-shore, Aug., Schlechter 8540. 
IT have not seen an example of this species, which is described 
as having discoid capitula, and must therefore be included in 
Pentzia according to the definition of the genus in the present 
paper. From the description 1t appears to belong to the group 
Flabellifoliae. 
Explanation of the Plate —The numbers of the figures cor- 
respond to the number preceding the species in the text, where 
‘the enlargement is given. 
XLVI.—CONIFEROUS TIMBERS: _III. 
Tse Asiatic Pines, 
W. Daiimore, 
The genus Pinus is well represented in Central and Northern 
Asia, although several of the species are less well known than 
the European and N. American members of the same family; in 
fact some of them have but recently been introduced to the 
British Isles, and little is known of their economic importance 
found in Asia Minor, are common in Europe, and as they were 
dealt with in an article in K.B. No. 6, 1915, they are omitted 
from the present notes. 
The best-known Asiatic species are :-— 
P. Armandi, Franchet; P. Bungeana, Zuccarini; P. densi- 
flora, Sieb. & Zuce.; P. excelsa, Wallich; P. Gerardiana, 
P. Merkusii, Jungh & de Vriese: P viflora, Lambert; 
fF. Thunber gii, Pa. bk ei 
They differ a good deal in size and habit, as well as in com- 
mercial importance, though inaccessibility and difficulty of 
extraction in several cases has doubtless more to do with the 
