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Eastern Region, between 3000 and 6000 ft.: Natal; hill at Izingolweni. 

 Wood, 3038 ! between the Biggarsberg and Bufi-ilo River, Gerrard, 2074:1 near 

 ^Ibert, Wood, 3*90! aud without precise locality, Cooper, 2846! Griqiialand 

 East; on Mountains, Tyson, 1271! Eastern districts, MacOwan, 2oiil Huitonl 

 Var. S : Natal ; near the Tugela River, Wood, 3488 I and without precise 

 locality, Gerrard, 1990! 



4. Z. longiflora (Walp. Eeperfc. iii. 307) ; an erect annual lierb, 

 branched from tlie base or simple ; stem dusky strigose-liirsute or 

 pubescent with pallid hairs, a little shrubby at the base, 6-30 in. 

 high ; branches erect or ascending, terete, rather slender, wiry, leafy ; 

 leaves mostly opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, somewhat 

 narrowed towards the base, pinnatifid-dentate, sessile or subsessilo, 

 somewhat viscid-pubescent, \~lir in. long ; floral leaves lanceolate, 

 subentire or fevv-toothed, pubescent, ciliate, -}-} in. long; spikes 

 short, dense; flowers 1-lf in. long, alternate, crowded, yellowish, 

 closed during the day, open at night and then sweetly fragrant ; 

 calyx J-J- in. long; teeth narrow, pubescent; corolla-tube slender, 

 glandular-puberulous outside ; limb spreading, |-J in. in diam. ; 

 lobes bifid ; throat shortly pubescent ; capsule glabrous, J in. long. 

 Nycterinia longiflora, Benth. in Hook. Gomp. Bat. Mag. i. 370, and 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 349. 



Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; ou the great mountain near Genadendal, 

 Burchell, 8631! Zwart Berg, Zeyher, 3509! Uitenhage Div. ; at Van Stadens 

 River, Burchell, 4653 ! 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; near Ezelsfoutein and on Boode 

 Berg-, Kamiesberg Range, 3503-4000 ft., Brege, 3120 ! 



5. Z. dentata (Walp. Repert. iii. 307); an annual or perennial 

 herb, ^-Ix ft. high ; stems erect, ascending or decumbent, more or 

 less branched, terete, softly and adpressedly pubescent above, rather 

 slender, sometimes shrubby near 'the base; branches pubescent, 

 leafy; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sublinear or narrowly elliptical, 

 obtuse, rounded at the subpetiolate base, strongly dentate or sub- 

 pinnatifid, more or less pubescent, J-2 in. long, y^ in. broad ; 

 floral leaves about -J—^ in. long, oval-oblong or -lanceolate ; petioles 

 broad, the lower evident, the upper obsolete ; spikes short or elonga- 

 ting, dense, several- or many-flowered, terminal ; flowers IJ-l;' m. 

 long, very sweet-scented by night ; calyx H i". long; corolla-tube 

 slender, glandular-pubescent outside, glabrous within ; limb about 

 -^ in. in diam., milk-white within, dark brown-purple or blackish- 

 violet outside, expanding at evening twilight and closing at morning 

 twilight; lobes bifid; throat shortly hairy; staniens 4 ; capsule 

 t in. long. Nycterinia dentata, Benth. in Hook. Comp. hot. Mag. 

 1- 370, and in 1)0. Prodr. x. 349. 

 Var. 0, humilis (Hiern) ; an annual herb, 4-8 in. high. Kyderinia dentata, 



^ Coast Rkgion, a-s.^nding from 400 to 3000 ft; : Tulbagh D v. . M t, MK 

 P'«ss,Sc/, /,./,/,,, 8933! Parvl D.v. ; I'aarl Mountain, />r.:K, 33 H^^ C.,n^^ 

 'noiuitains nnnuul Cam> Town, Drege, 331a! Harrey f tcUou, 499, L,„r,,.u. 



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