76 THYMEL.EACE.-E (AYriglit). [.Lasiosij)hon. 



and the Busliman River, Burchell, 4198! Fisli Eiver, 400-500 ft., I]aur, 10S4! 

 Var. )3: Uitenhage Div. ; witliout precise locality, Zeyher, 732 [ 37661 Peddie 

 Div. ; Fisli River, hills near Trumpeters Drift, Dreje I 



Central Region : Somerset Div, ; at Blyde River, Burchcll, 2965 ! west side 

 of Bruintjes Hoogte. 3800 ft., Bolus, 17791 Var. 7: Somerset Div. ; near Little 

 Fish River and Great Fish River, 2000-3000 ft., Drefje ! . 



Eastern Region: Katal ; Yryheid, Sim, 2932! Krantz Kloof, KuntzeX Clair- 



niont, Kuntze ! 



Meiouer in BG, Prod)\ siv. 594 has transposed the references to the two 

 varieties in Drege's Documented and also the localities connected with them, 



14. L, pulchellus (Decne in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 149) ; branches 

 virgate, slender, glabrous ; leaves alternate, linear-hanceolate or 

 ■subspathulate, mucronate or obtuse, G-12 lin. long, lv;-2|- lin. Avide, 

 glabrous; involucral leaves 8-12, spathulate, scarcely wider than 

 the cauline; beads sessile or shortly stalked, many-flowered; calyx 

 densely adpressed-silky, 1 in. long ; lobes narrowly oblong, 2 lin. 

 long. Walp, Ann, i. 587 ; ^letsn. in DC, Proclr. xiv. dOiyincL var. 

 gla bratuSj^ hut excLvar.dasyphyllus, GnJdia pidclNlJ cL and var. glabrata, 

 Meisn, in Linnsea, xiv. 425; Drege, Zivei PJl. JJucmnente, 44, 149. 

 J)ai8 arqentea , var. depressa^ EcJ:h & ZcyTi, ex Meisn, in DC, Prodr. 

 xiv. 595. 



Coast Region: Stockenstrom Div. ; in grassy places, Kat Berg, 3000-4000 ft., 

 Drege. 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, 

 Drege, 



15. L. triplinervis (Decne in Jacquem. Yoy. Bot. 149); a much- 

 branched shrub; branches glabrous, slender, leaf-scars small but 

 prominent ; leaves alternate, oblanceolate, very shortly cuspidate, 

 up to 12 lin. long and 2^ lin. wide, quite glabrous, midrib prominent 

 beneath; involucral leaves ovate, 4 lin. long, 2^ lin. wide, acute, 

 ciliate; flowers numerous in terminal clusters" calyx-tube silky 

 •outside, hairs longer below, cylindrical, 10-15 lin. long; lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, 2 J lin. long, H lin. wide; petals 5, membranous, 

 'obovate, 1 lin. long, | lin. wide; anthers linear, nearly 1 lin. long ; 

 ovary ovate, compressed ; style longer than the calyx-tube ; stigma 

 small. JMeisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 595. Gnidia triplinervis . Mrlsn, 



in Linnxa, xiv. 429. Da!s_Owrnli , EcU, d' Zcyk ex Mcisn. in DC. 

 Prodr, xiv. 595. ~"~ " 



Coast Region: King Williamstown Div.; Perie Mountains, 2000 ft., Tyson, 

 1041 ! Sim, 2951 I sides of BuUalo Mountain, Tyson, C04 ! 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; banks of the Umkwani River, near the sea, 

 Tyson, 2643! near the mouth of the Umtentu River, Prege\ and without 

 precise locality, Bachmann, 901 \ Griqualand East; bv streams near Clydesdale, 

 2500 ft, Tyson, 1159 ! 2015 ! and in MacOivan & Bolus, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1227 ! 

 Natal; Umgenij Rehmann, 7464! 



16. L. caffer (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 593) ; a small under- 

 shrub; branches slender, erect, glabrous, terete; leaves alternate, 

 erect, linear, acute, 6-9 Hn. long, 11 lin. wide, glabrous; heads 

 sessile, terminal, few-flowered ; involucral leaves ovate, acuminate, 

 2 lin. wide; calyx densely silky outside; tube 10 lin. long, slender, 



