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TIIYMEL.EACE.^ ("Wright). 



\ LasiosiiJlion 





1 



lin. wide, acute, subcoriaceous, bispidulous ; involucral leaves 



5-7, terminal ; calyx densely silky 



6 lin. 



rather wider, velvety ; flowers 

 outside, basal part furnished 

 subcylindrical ; lobes oblong, 



1 lin. wide, yellow ; petals 



1 



with long hairs 



tube 



long 



rounded at the apex, U lin. long, 



very small, meml>ranous, hyaline ; 



anthers oblong, obtuse, | lin. long, larger than the petals ; ovary 



arlabrous ; 



small, oblong, 



stigma 



rigid ; stigma capitate. 

 DC. Prodr. xiv, 595. 



style much shorter than the calyx-tube, 



" " ■" MeUu. in 



^le'wi. in 



Gnidla piilchella^ f'aT,_diisyi)lu 



Linneea, xiv. 425; Drrge, Zwei I'jL Documente, 61, 63. G. des ert^ 

 cola^ GiJy in Evgl. Jalirh. xix, 263. 



Coast Region: Clamvilliam Div. ; near Wuppenthal, 1000 ft., Bdas, 0084! 

 ■BidouNv Berg, 2000 ft., Schkchtcr, 86951 Ladi.smitli Div. ; Groot lliver, Caroo, 

 Maud J; Mairel Oudtshoorn Div.; OuJtshoorn, Tyson I Miss Briitoiiy 19! "K^^t 

 London Div. ; Cambridge, Miu Wormoldj 81 1 



Central Region' : Calvinia Div. ; Nieuwoudtville, Lelpoldt in Herb, Bolas^ 

 9386 I Ceres Div. ; between Little Doom Paver and Great Duuru Paver, BinrhrU, 

 1208! Prince Albert Div. ; Gamka River, Bvvkr, 241! Znjhrr, 1491! Zwart- 

 buUetje, on stony places and by the Gaiuka River, 2500 ft., Dreje ! Jansenville 



Div.; near the Sundays River, 1500-2000 ft., Bre'je^ 

 Reinetj 2600 ft., Bolus, 2188 ! 



Graaf Keiuet Div. ; Graaf 





7. L. macropetalus (INIeisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv, 594); a small 

 ditfusely branched slirub ; branches at first pubescent, rather 

 slender, leaf scars small but prominent ; leaves alternate, more or 

 less spathulate, adpressed-silky when young, less densely so when 

 old, acute, 4-8 lin. long, 2-2^ lin. wide ; involucral leaves similar 

 to the cauline ; flowers in terminal heads ; calyx silky outside ; 

 tuVje 6 lin. long, subcylindrical; lobes oblong, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, 

 I lin. wide ; petals 5, membranous, 1 lin. long, | lin. wide ; anthers 

 linear, 1 lin. long; ovary oblong, glabrous; style filiform; stigma 

 capitate. Sim, For. FL Cape Col 302; Wood, Natal FL t 262. 

 Gn idia maeropela lit , Meim, in HooJc. Lond. Joxirn. ii. 553 ; Kraim, 

 Beiti. TT. Cajh un^ Natal, 142. 



Eastern Rkgio' : Natal; near Durban, Kraaas, 237! Peddle i IVood in 

 MacOwan d Bolus, Uerb. Norm, 1028 ! Umlazi, Mudd 1 Inanda, Wood, ^^ ' 

 Intrichanga, llehmann, 7887! Viyheid, Sim, 2947! Dumiaa Station, Alexandra 

 District, RurlatU, 651 ! and without preclae locality, Mrs, Saunders I NtUov, 11 ■ 

 Gerrard, 27 ! 



^ 8. L. dregeanus (Endl. Gen. Huppl. iv. ii. 67) ; branches adpressed- 



Tillous at the apex; leaves alternate, spreading, spathulate-oblong, 

 obtuse, mucronulate, 5-8 lin. long, 3-4 lin, wide, adpressed-pilose 

 on both sTirfaces ; involucral leavos not \vv\vv than the cauliue, 

 rather silky, ciliate; calyx silky-villous ; tube 6-8 lin. long; lobes 

 obtuse; petals minute, ovate. Milan, in DC, Frodr, xiv. 594. 

 gnidia dre fieanrt^ Meisn. in IJnnsea, xiv. 426; Dri-rjey Zwei Pfi* 



J- 

 I 



^ocutuente, IGO. 



Eastek>' Region : Natal ; Durban, Bref/e. 



Habit and leaves as in Z. metmerianus, Eudl., but pubescence leeift thick and 

 <mlvs much shorter. 



