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Abstract: Abrus kaokoensis Swanepoel & H.Kolberg, a woody subshrub, is described as a new species. It is only known from the vicinity of the Kunene River and the Baynes Mountains in the Kaokoveld Centre of Endemism, Namibia. Its range is likely to extend into the botanically poorly explored adjacent mountainous parts of southwestern Angola. Illustrations of the species and a distribution map are provided. Probably most closely related to A. schimperi Baker, diagnostic characters of the new species include a suffrutescent habit and terminal elongated racemes with flowers clustered on appressed cushion-like reduced branchlets. A comparative table with diagnostic morphological characters to distinguish between the new species and A. schimperi is provided. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Euphorbia ohiva Swanepoel, a new species of woody Euphorbia, restricted to the Kaokoveld Centre of Endemism in northwestern Namibia and southwestern Angola, is described. Illustrations and a distribution map of the new species, as well as a table of comparative morphological features to distinguish it from E. matabelensis Pax, its putative closest relative, are supplied. Diagnostic characters for E. ohiva include a peeling bark with a coppery sheen, spineless branchlets, slender, linear or linear-oblanceolate leaves and cyathia that are bisexual or male with 3–7, widely spaced (non-contiguous) and unevenly sized involucre glands. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]