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locality, J. Medley Wood, No. 385 ; without locality W. T. 

 Gerrard, No. 172 ? 



Amongst South African species this appears to be the nearest 

 to C. globifera, but it differs from it in indument, shape and 

 size of leaves, number of flowers, shape, texture and indument 

 of legume, which is more oblique than that of C. globifera, and 

 very much harder. 



Printzia densifolia, Wood & Evans. 



Stem ?. Branches terete, scurfy. Leaves alternate, very 

 numerous in upper part of stem, ovate, acuminate at apex, 

 rounded at base, sharply, deeply and distantly serrate, shortly 

 petiolate, auricled at base, minutely pubescent on veins beneath 

 1-3 inches long, f-2 inches wide, auricles leafy, sub-rotund 

 from a broad base, serrate like the leaves, 4-5 lines in diameter. 

 Inflorence axillary and terminal, in short, few flowered racemes. 

 Heads 6 lines long. Involucral scales imbricate in 4-5 rows, 

 the exterior shorter ; all lanceolate, fimbriate with long woolly 

 hairs especially at apex. Rays 4-5 lines^long. Pappus white. 

 Flowers white. 



Habitat. Natal. Blinkwater, near York, 3-4,000 feet altitude. 

 April, 1890. J. Medley Wood, No. 4,331. 



This is a species quite distinct in general appearance from 

 any other known to us. Like P. auriculata the leaves are 

 amply auricled, but in shape and indument are quite different. 

 From P. p3 T rifolia it differs in shape and size of leaves, con- 

 spicuous auricles, and total absence of tomentum on the under 

 side of the leaves. 



Heteromma simplicifolia. Wood & Evans. 



Stem herbaceous, striate, pilose, 2-2| feet high, 1-2 lines in 

 diameter, branches diffuse, Leaves few, alternate, lower ones 

 decurrent, narrow-oblong, mucronate, gradually narrowing to a 

 winged petiole, margin sharply toothed, teeth few, distant ; 

 2-4 inches long including the petiole, ^-f inch wide, upper ones 

 linear -oblong, sessile and sub-amplexicaul ; all pilose, sub- 

 scabrous, finely ciliate, and becoming smaller towards the apex 

 of the stem and branches. Corymbs laxly paniculate, Heads 

 20-30 flowered. Involucral scales pilose. Achenes (immature) 

 minutely pubescent. Flowers yellow. 



Habitat. Natal. Drakensberg Mountains, near Polela river, 

 6-7,000 feet altitude. February, 1896. M. S. Evans, No. 648. 



This genus, as far as known to us, consists of two species only, 

 viz., H. decurrens which inhabits the mountainous parts of the 



