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: Vaiirhynsdorp Div. ; between Heerenlogement and Knagas 

 ft., Dre'je I Clanwilliam Div. ; Zeekoe Vley, Schlechter, 8578 ! 



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Coast Regio^- 



Berg, imder 1000 



mountains near Olifants Hirer, Bolus, 5799 ! !Malmesbury Div. ; Mamre, near 

 Groene Kloof, 300 ft., Bolus, 4322! Tulbagh Div. ; Saron, 700 ft., SchlecMer, 

 7865 ! Winter Hoek, Zcyher ! Worcester Div. ; Hex Eiver Mountains, Axellsfarm, 

 EeJnnann, 2707 ! mountains, Hex Kiver Valley, Tyson, 805 ! Worcester, Zeyherl 

 Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, Zeyher ! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elini, SOO ft., 

 Bolus, 7854 ! Sddeckterj 7705 I Swellendam Div. ; on dry hills near Breede River, 

 BurchcU, 7457 ! Var. ^ ; Clamvilliam Div. ; sand flats near Ezels Bank, Drege^: 

 Maimesbury Div. ; between Groene Kloof and Dassen Berg, Dre<je ! Paarl Div. ; 

 between Paarl and Lady Grey Bridge, Drege \ Cape Div. ; Tyger Berg, Drege ! 

 Swellendam Div. ; Buffeljagts River, G'lU ! ; 



Central Regiox : Ceres Div. ; between Karroo Poort and Zoutpan.sdiiftj ■ 

 2000 ft., Pearson^ 5016 ! 



27. S. confusa (C. H. Wriglit); erect, rauch-branclied from the 

 base; branches at first pilose; leaves linear-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, 

 obtuse, tipped with a bunch of hairs, ciliate, soon glabreacent ; 

 flowers in the axils of the uppermost leaves ; bracteoles 1^ lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse, ciliate ; calyx-tube sparingly pubescent, 6 Tin. long, 

 gradually widened upwards; lobes ovate, obtuse, 1-^ lin. long, f lin. 

 wide ; petals 8, half as long as the calyx-lobes, surrounding hairs- 

 of equal length ; anthers with blunt shortly produced connective ;. 

 ovary oblong, glabrous ; style filiform ; stigma penicillate. 



Coast Region: Tulbagh Div. ; mountains near the waterfall, 1200 ft.> Bolus, 

 5263 ! Papfe ! Witzen Berg, behind Steendahl, 2000 ft., Bolus, 5378 ! Cape Div. ; 

 beyond Raapenberg Vley, Woolley-Dod, 340 \ 



This species resembles S. erecta, Linn., but differs in having a pubescent calyx 

 with obtuse lobes, 



28. S. leiosiphon (Gilg) ; 3 ft. high (i?^aT/a^ZZ), much-branched ; 

 branches at first pilose, finally glabrous and rough with prominent 

 leaf-scars; leaves lanceolate, concave, 6 lin, long, 1| lin. wide, 

 pilose when young, afterwards glabrous and tuberculate on the Ijack ; 

 flowers in the axils of the uppermost leaves ; bracteoles 3 liii. long, 

 ^ lin. wide, densely ciliate ; calyx-tube glabrous, 1 2 lin. long,, 

 cylindrical, ^ lin. in diam. ; lobes ovate, acuminate, 2J lin. long, 

 1-| lin. wide; petals 12, nearly 1 lin, long, oblong, surrounded by 

 hairs nearly as long; ovary 1 II ji. long, oblong, glabrous; style 

 filiform, 9 lin. long ; stigma small. 



p Coast Region ; Caledon Div. ; tops of the mountains of Bavian^? Kloof near 



^ Genadendal, BurchdJ, 7730 ! 



29. S. rigida (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xlv. 570) ; branches slender,. 



densely leafy, terete, puberulous, leaf-scars prominent; leaves 

 opposite, at first imbricate, finally spreading, rigid, lanceolate,, 

 rather acute, convex on the back, 3-5 lin, long, §-1 lin. wide,, 

 contracted at the base, densely ciliate on the involute margins, 

 otherwise glabrons ; flowers glabrous, 8-9 lin. long ; calyx-tube- 

 dilated in the throat; lobes ovate-oblong, 1 lin. long; petals 12, 

 yellow, twice as long as the surrounding hairs. 



Coast Region : Swellendam Div. ; Ereede River, between Sebastians Bay^ 

 Rhinoster Fontein and Port Beaufortj Garnoi, 



