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region. If so, the plant has not yet been found outside the Transvaal. 

 It is omitted in the former edition of this work, not having been 

 previously identified. 



Order AMPELIDE^. 



7. Vitis, sp. 



Matabele Land. 



An inflorescence, belonging to a species of Vitis, or, as Planchon 

 now subdivides the genus, to Cissus, I cannot identify with anything 

 in the Kew Herbarium. The inflorescence is cymose, somewhat 

 pilose, with ferrugineous hairs ; the bracts of the same colour ; flowers 

 J inch in diameter, the four petals free and spreading. It is probably 

 undescribed, the species of this genus generally having a rather 

 limited range. 



Order LEGUMINOS^E. 



8. SUTHERLANDIA FRUTESCENS, R. Br. 



Between Pietermaritzburg and the Crocodile River. 



9. Erythrina, sp. 



Matabele Land. 



A few detached flowers are distinct from those of any other species 

 in the Kew Herbarium. The calyx is spathaceous, an inch long, the 

 upper third being divided into five narrowly subulate, acute lobes, the 

 whole clothed with silky yellow hairs ; the upper petal, or vexillum, 

 crimson, 15-if inch long, 7-10 lines broad; the wing-petals curved, 

 obtuse, and 5 inch long ; the keel-petals still shorter and broader ; the 

 ovary densely clothed with somewhat appressed silky yellow hairs. 

 Although I believe this to be a distinct new species I cannot venture 

 to describe it from such imperfect material. A specimen collected by 

 Baines, on granite hills, in Matabele Land, consisting of four detached 

 leaflets (more or less orbicular in shape, and villose beneath), and a 

 portion of a branch (also villose, with short, stout spines), may or may 

 not belong to the same species. The material is insufficient to decide 

 the point, though it should be noted that the cinereous pubescence of 

 the latter looks somewhat different. 



10. LONCHOCARPUS Capassa, Rolfe. — L. violaceus, Oliv. in Trans. 



Linn. Soc, xxix. p. 63 (not of H. B. K.) — L. laxiflorus, var. seri- 

 ceus, Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. p. 242. — L. Philenoptera, 

 Harv. in Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap., ii. p. 263 ; Thorns, in 

 Speke's Journ., p. 632 (not of Benth.) — Capassa violacea, 

 Klotzsch in Peters's Reise Mossamb., Bot. p. 28, t. 5. 



Matabele Land. 



