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number. The first instance of this occurs in the case of Droge, 
whose “ A. betulina b” from the Bashee River is a mixture of the 
two glabrous varieties. The second instance is hardly less instruct- 
ive; Burke and Zeyher, collecting together at Addo in Uitenhage, 
have. distributed one the typical, the other the broad-leaved variety 
of “ A. glabrata. ut the same experience has been met with by 
collectors so competent as Mr. Galpin and Miss Pegler, whose 
respective field-numbers 3484 and 874 cover the same “ mixture 
of what Sonder and Miiller have supposed to be distinct varieties, 
It is unnecessary to suppose that collectors so careful as those cited 
must be in error; indeed there is nothing to show that the specimens 
which conform with the characters of Miiller’s two varieties have 
not been taken from the same bush. With very little trouble the 
two varieties might even be manufactured because 1 in a considerable 
number of instances—specimens of Drége’s “ A. betulina b,” of 
Wood 430, and of Gerrard 82 may be cited as examples—the leaves 
at the ends of the twigs are those of var. latifolia, those lower down 
on the twig are those of typical A. glabrata. Such specimens bear 
out the statement of Sim (For. Fl. Cap. Col. p. 318) who speaks of 
“growth made during drought having leaves 1 inch long or less, 
that made during rains having leaves 3 inches long.” It is there- 
fore not only possible but probable that Sonder’s variety “latifolia ” 
is merely a condition, not even a form, still less a true variety. 
Rng: ae Paz. Folia persistenter pubescentia, 5-8 cm. longa, 
—A. velutina, i, Mey.in Drige Zwei Pfl. Documente 
161 (1843). oe betulina, BE. Mey. lc, (1843) partim et quoad Drige 
4595 tantum. A. glabrata, var. pilosa, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
vi. 733 (1898), 
bse nent Zoutspansberg ; near Goldgedacht, Schlechter, 4602 
Cape Colony: Bathurst Div.; Fish River, near Trumpeter’s 
t, Drege, a (under A. betulina)! 4595! Komgha Div. ; Kei 
Bridge, 1800 ft. Flanagan, 1214! 
Transkei: Bashee —— Drige (A. velutina)! Kentani, Miss 
Pegler, 606! 
Natal: Inanda, Wood, 1241 (a transition form)! Tugela, Colenso, 
Gerrard & McKen, 1623! Rehmann, 7164! 
The form named —_ Pita sae Dr. Pax bears to the form termed 
var. latifolia by Sond er and Kuntze very much the 
typical A. glabrata. Some of specimens, notably those issued 
by Mr. Medley Wood as 1941, and those distributed by Ir. 
Schle as 4602, are almost exactly intermediate between var. 
Letifotia adil A, velutina, E. Mey (= var. pilosa, Pax). It is 
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