ZasiosipJion.] tiiy.mel.^ace^ (^^"j^'ig^^t)- 77 



cylindrical; lobes oblong, obtuse, 4 lin. long, 1\ lin. wide; petals 

 ^ lin. long, linear ; ovary oblong, compressed, hairy at the top ;. 

 style as long as the calyx-tube ; stigma capitate. Wood in Trans, 



S. Afr, PhlL Sac, xviii, 218. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; near Witzies Iloek, 5400 ft., Bolus, 

 8245 ! Flctiiar/an, 1887 ! Harrismith, Sanket/, 169 ! and without precise locality, 

 Cooper, 831 ! Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Atherstone ! Wilms, 1306 ! near 

 Earberton, Bolus, 9761 ! High Yeldt near Belfast, 6500 ft, Bolus, 12269 t 

 Jenkins ! Waterval Boven, Rogers, 245 ! Magahe.sberg, Zeylicr, 1488 ! Carolina 

 District, 1 mile north of Robinsons, BurU-Dar}j, 2977 1 and without precise 

 locality, Mrs. Stainhanl\ 3641 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Little Tugela District, near Hoffenthal 3Ii.ssion 

 Station, and Tabamhlope, Wood, 3448 ! Van Reenans Pass, 5000-6000 ft., Wood^ 

 4520 ! Vryheid, Sim, 2923 ! and without precise locality, Gcrrard, 1391 ! 



17. L. Kraussii (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 596); a very variable 

 plant ; stems stout, herbaceous from a woody base, glabrous or 

 pubescent; leaves lanceolate to oval, 8-18 lin. long, 1-6 lin. "wide, 

 quite glabrous to densely pilose, acute or obtuse ; flowers in a- 

 terminal peduncled head ; bracts ovate, acute, silky ; calyx-tube 

 7-9 lin. long, cylindrical, silky outside and with long white hairs at 

 the base ; lobes oval, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide ; petals half as. 

 long as the calyx-lobes^ lanceolate^ acute, membranous ; anthers 

 oblong, I lin. long ; ovary ovate, compressed, hairy, especially at the 

 top ; style about as long as the calyx-tube ; stigma capitate. EngL 

 Soclujehirgsfl. Trap. Afr. 310 : Wood it Evans, Natal PL iii. 

 /. 256; Fearson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. L 231 ; Sim, For, FL 



Gape Col 302. X. a fin is. Kotschy dt Peyr, PI. Thin. 39, /. 19 B. 



X, d furicufi^ Gilg in En<jh Jalirh. xix. 269. G n Jdla hra ?/ >?s' // / » r/ ,, 



Meisn, in HooJc. Lond. Jour)). BoL ii. (1843), 552, 553, incL vars^ 



pubescens and glahrata ; Gilg in Engl Pfl. Ost-A/r, C. 283.. 



G. djurica, Gilg in Engl. JaTirh, xix. 268, G. dschifrica. GUg in. 



ngi. it- rrantl, Pflanzcnfani. iii. 6 A, 228. G. iisinfensis, Gilg in 

 Engl Jalirh, xix. 269 ; Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. Ic. 



Kalahari Kkgiox : Orange River Colony ; Bethlehem, Richardson ! Harrismith, 

 Sanhey, 170 ! Besters Ylei, near "Witzies Hoek, 5400 ft., Bolm, 8426! Flanagan, 

 1871! and without precise locality, Cooper, 832! Transvaal; near Pretoria, 

 4500 ft., Miss Leendertz, 280! Rehmann, 4531! McLea in Herb. Bolus, 58091 

 Burtt-Dacy, 786; AVaterval Boven, Rogers \ Magaliesberg, Burke I Piet Relief, 

 Burtt-Bavy, 1914 1 Lydenburg, Wilms, 1301 I near Barbertoa, Bolus, 9758 ! 



Eastern Region: Tenibuland; Mount Bazeia, Baur, 2541 Pondoland ; 

 without precise locality, Baclunami, 897 ! Griqualand East ; Maclear, plains at 

 base of Tent Kop, 5600" ft., Galpin, 6826 ! Kokstadt, 4300 ft., Tyson, 109S ! an* 

 in Bolus & MacOivan, Herb, Norm. Anstr,-Afr., 458! Natal; near Durljan, 

 SiftJurhindl luanda, Wood, 177! 188 I between Pietermaritzberg and Greytowu^ 

 Wilms, 2246 ! Vryheid, Siin, 2920 ! Dumisa, Radatis, 490 ! Table Mountain, 

 Krauss, 455 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 585 ! Mrs. Hutton, 349 ! 

 Cooper, 3090 ! 



Meisner (in DC. Prodr. xiv. 596) has described three varieties, \-iz., pulescens, 

 glahratus and angustifolius. which cannot be maintained owing to the impossibility 

 of defining them by constant characters, as pointed out by Pearson, Lc. Bolus, 

 8246, has densely hairy and quite glabrous leaves in the same gathering. Ths- 

 species is polymorphic to a high degree. 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



