. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa. ?H *. Photo by I. B. Pole Evans/l Plate HI.—Hlbucuti camiabinun growing in old mealie lands on the farmWaterval, Duivels Kloof, Transvaal. Plate III illustrates a typical invasion of mealie lands by thisplant in the Zoutpansberg District. At the time when the photo-graph was taken (10th September, 1917) practically all the seedcapsules were ripe and had shed their seed. Plate y depicts some plants taken from this heavily-infected tractof land and tied into bundles ready for fibre extraction. Theseplants were gathered, bundled,
. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa. ?H *. Photo by I. B. Pole Evans/l Plate HI.—Hlbucuti camiabinun growing in old mealie lands on the farmWaterval, Duivels Kloof, Transvaal. Plate III illustrates a typical invasion of mealie lands by thisplant in the Zoutpansberg District. At the time when the photo-graph was taken (10th September, 1917) practically all the seedcapsules were ripe and had shed their seed. Plate y depicts some plants taken from this heavily-infected tractof land and tied into bundles ready for fibre extraction. Theseplants were gathered, bundled, and forwarded to the BotanicalLaboratories, Pretoria, by Mr. Closterschulte, of the Westfalia Estates,Duivels Kloof. In spite of tlieir age an excellent sample of fibre hasbeen obtained from them. In some of the areas mentioned above the plant thrives to suchan extraordinary extent that the writer has seen large patches, bothof virgin veld and lands so completely covered that it was almost 20 574 Journal of the Department of Agriculture. impossible to walk through i
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