LasiosipJion.'l tiiymelj^ace^ (Wright). 73 



Wr 



from a woody rootstock, pubescent ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, 

 acute, 6 lin. long, 1^ lin. wide, hairy on butli surfaces, midril) 



conspicuous, lateral nerves about 2 on each side ; involucral leaves 



ovate, acute, 2^ lin. wide ; flowers in terminal heads ; calyx ad- 

 pressed-silky outside; tube 6 lin. long, sliglitJy intlatcd below; 

 lobes shortly elliptic, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 

 minute, tooth-like ; anthers oblong, obtuse, § lin. long ; ovary 

 oblong, glabrous ; style filiform, shorter than the calyx-tube ; 

 stigma capitate. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal; Warmbaths, M'm Leendertz^ 13141 



Resembling Z. Krausiij Meisn., but differing in having sessile flower-iieads and 

 much smaller petals, 



10. L. linifolius (Decne in Jacquem. Toy. Bot. 148); a shrub; 

 branches diffuse, rigid, glabrous, leaf-scars prominent ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, subpungent, 7-11 lin. long, 2 lin. wide; flowers 

 about 10 in terminal clusters; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, pungent, G lin. long, 2^ lin. wide ; calyx densely tomentose 

 outside ; tube about 4 lin. long, slender, inflated below, subcylindrical 

 above ; lobes patent, ovate, obovate or rotundate, about I^ lin. long 

 and 1 lin. wide ; petals 1 lin. long, oblong, obtusCj entire, glabrous ; 

 a-nthers oblong, the upper exserted and larger than the lower; 

 ovary oblong ; style excentric, slightly shorter than the calyx- 

 tube ; stigma small. Walp. Ann, i. 587 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 

 595, inch vars, piibescens and glahrata ; Sim, For, FL Cape CoL 302. 

 •Qnidia capitata^ Linn, f, Suppl, 224; Thunh. Prodr. 76, and FL 



Cap. 



Acad, Ilandl. Stochh 



Wil 



PJf 



^hisn, in Linnsea, xiv. 424. (t._ frgyisvaaUensis^ Gi^ «'w De Wild. 

 Nov. Herh. Hart, Then. I 206, t iQ,Jigs. 10-16. DaiiJinifoHa, 



Lam, EncycL ii. 255, and III ii. 492, t, 368, fg. 3 ; Pers. SynA. 471. 

 Pr.o^^^;^.. ' nvajjicxatoj Spreng. ex Meisn. in BC. Prodr. xiv. 595. 



Coast Region : Uitenliage Div. ; on plains near Uitenhage, Boii'ie ! Addo, 

 Zeyher^ 210 ! Zuurberg Eange, Cooper^ 3089! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstovvn, 

 jBurchellj 3607! MacOwcm] 3Iisses Daly & Sole, 355! Atherstone I between 

 Zwartewater Poort and the east end of Zwartewater Berg, BurchcU, Z-kiS I Eock- 

 •cliffe near Sidbury, Miss Daly, 761 ! Brak Kloof, Mrs. White, lOGi ! and without 

 precise locality, Cooper^ 1525! King Williamstown Div. ; King AVilliamstown, 

 1500 ft., Sim, 294S ! Queenatown Div. ; plains, Queenstown, Galpin^ 1560 1 

 Cooper, 30S.t ! Imvane, Baur, 80! Zwartkei Kiver, Baur, 100 ! 



Central Region; Somerset Div.; Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, Dregel Bosch 

 Berg, Bolus, 1749 ! 



around Earberton, 2000-4000 ft., Galpin, 495 1 Maquasi Hills, Nelson, 235 ! 

 Skinners Court Experiment Station, 4500 ft., Burtt-Davy, 5044! Lydenberg, 

 Wilms, 1S05! Crocodile River, Quintas, 229, King's Farm, between Venters 

 Poort and Middelburg, Bolus, 9759 ! 



Ea^sTerx EEGio>f: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 5371 Umtata, Baur, 

 o3S ! Griqualand East; Kokstad, 4300 ft., Tyson, 1112! 1531 ! and in MacOwan 



