DaU^ THY^AIEL-EACE^E (A\^right). 3 



Coast Region : Komgha Div. ; near Keimouth, Flanar/aa, 422 ! BritL-h 

 Kaffraria; Fort Murray, 1200 ft, Sim, 1480! Var. $: King WilHam^ito^vll 

 Div. ; Buaklo River, under 1000 ft., Drer/e, 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 849 \ 3091 ! 

 Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Atlurstonel \Vlhaii, 1292 ! 



Eastern Region : Trauskei ; Kentani, Misi^ Peyler, 316! Tembuland ; bank of 

 the Umtata River, under 1000 ft., Drejcl Bazeia, 2000-3000 ft., Baur, 22! 

 Griquaknd East ; by banks of rivers near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson in MacOwan 

 & Bolus, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1226 ! banks of the Umzimkuln River, Tijson^ 1429 ! 

 Natal; Nottingham, Buchanan, 152! Friedenau Farm, Dumisa, Rtnlatis, 5801 

 and without precise locality, Sutherlandl Gerrwrd, 1388 I Wood, 3155! 



Kaffir name ^^ Intozane/' "The bark of this yields the strongest fibre known 

 to the natives of the colony of Natal." (Suthcyland.) " The natives [of Kentani] 



nse the bark a.s a thread." {Miss Pcglcr.') The variety laurifolia is known only 

 in cultivation. 



Im].)erfedly hnown species. 



2. D, canescens (Bartl, ex Meisn. in Linnnea, xiv. 388) ; branches 

 stout ; branchlets flexuouSj canescent and leafy at the apex, leafless 

 and scarred below ; leaves alternate, erect, subimbricate, oblong, 

 attenuate at the base, rather obtuse, 2-+ lin. long, flat, 1 -nerved on 

 the back, canescent on both surfaces ; involucral leaves 6-8, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, 6 lin. long, scarious at the margin, brownish inside, 

 soIne^vhat silky-canescent ; heads 3-6-flu\vered ; calyx silky-pilose ; 

 tube filiform, 1 in. long, persistently long-hairy at the base; 

 lobes equal, a quarter the length of the tube, linear-oblong, very 

 obtuse, glabrous inside, slightly revolute at the margin ; anthers 

 linear, 5 inserted in the calyx-throat, 5 slightly lower. Meisn, in 

 DC. Prodn xiv. 529, 



South Africa : without locality or collector's name. 



3. D. eriocephala (Lichtenst. ex Bartl. in Linmea, xiv. 389) ; 

 branches short, densely leafy ; leaves alternate, scarcely imbricate, 

 linear, mucronate, 3-6 lin. long, slightly concave, as well as the 

 branchlets glaucescent and quite glabrous, with a slightly pro- 

 minent keel ; involucral leaves 6-8, oblong-lanceolate, acute, villous 

 outside, fuscous, paler at the margin, the inner larger than the 

 outer; heads many-flowered ; calyx unknown. 



Central Regiox: Albert Div. ; Leeuwefontein, Lichtenstein. 

 Meisner suggests that this may be an Arthrosolen. 



II. ARTHROSOLEN, C. A. Meyer. 



Floicers hermaphrodite. Cahjx-tube cylindric, slender, circum- 

 scissile above the ovary, naked at the throat ; lobes 4, rarely 5, patent. 

 Stamens 8, rarely 10, 2-seriate, included; filaments short; anthers 

 oblono- or linear ; connective inconspicuous. Disc none. Ovary 

 subsessile, 1 -celled ; style filiform, usually long; stigma small, 

 capitate. Fruit drv, enclosed in the persistent calyx-base; 



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