serrate, cilliate, stellato-liispid on both sides, the mature ones 

 almost glabrous, 5-9 veined at base, 1-3 inches long, 1J-2J inch 

 wide. Peduncles axillary and terminal, longer than petioles. 

 Involucral bracts 8-10, oblong-ovate, ciliate, veiny; f-1 inch 

 long, 2-3 lines wide, Corolla twice as long as the involucel. 

 Ovary densely hirsute. Seeds silky. Flowers white, with dark 

 centre. 



Habitat, Natal. On a rocky hill, summit of Van Reenen's 

 Pass, Drakensberg Mountains. Alt. 5-6,000 feet. December, 

 J. Medley Wood, No. 5,961. 



Rhus rupicola, Wood & Evans. 



An erect much branched shrub. Branches and twigs hirsuto- 

 pilose. Leaves trifoliolate, pitiolate, common petiole 2-5 lines 

 long, leaflets obovate, sessile, narrowed to base, mucronate, sub- 

 coriaceous, veiny, entire, margin revolute, lighter coloured and 

 shining beneath, finely pubescent on the veins; terminal 3-6 

 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, lateral similar, but much smaller. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal, much longer than the leaves, 

 1-2 inches long, rachis and peduncles minutely pubescent. 

 Pedicels a little longer than the flowers. Flowers small, yellow. 

 Drupe globose, 1-2 lines in diameter, glabrous. 



Habitat. Natal. Amongst rocks below waterfall, Liddesdale, 

 near Howick. J. Medley Wood. No. 3,932. 



Amongst South African species this comes nearest to R. 

 mucronata, but differs from it by indument of branches, shape 

 and size of leaves, and petioles, length of panicles, colour of 

 flower, and apparently also in size of drupe ; we have no speci- 

 mens of R. mucronata with which to compare it. 



Rhy?ichosia ovata, Wood & Evans. 



A sub-erect undershrub with densely rufo-pilose branches, 

 Leaves long petioled, trifoliolate, leaflets, ovate, mucronulate, 

 entire rounded at base, 3- veined, finely hispid and ciliate with 

 long pilose white hahs, lateral ones very shortly petiolulate, ter- 

 minal longer, mature ones 1^ inches long, 1 in<m wide. Stipules 

 subulate, striate, 3 lines long. Racemes axillary and terminal, 

 longer than the leaves, flowers few, distant. Bracts not seen. 

 Legume oblong, acute, narrowed to base, 9 lines long, 3-4 lines 

 wide. 



Habitat. Zululand. Near Eutumeni ; J. Medley Wood, No. 

 3,987. April 1888. 



Amongst South African species this falls in the Section 

 Copisma, and comes near to R. adenodes, from which plant it 

 differs in size and shape of leaves (which are not resinous 

 dotted), size of flowers, cutting of calyx, and indument, 



