ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



THYMELJIACEJ!. 

 4a. Arthrosolen compactus (C. H. Wright) ; a densely branched 



undershrub ; branches short, densely leafy, at first, silky-pilose ; 

 leaves alternate, inibricatOj oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, 

 long pilose on the margins and back, verrucosa on both surfaces ; 

 flowers in terminal chisters ; bracts ovate ; calyx yellow, "vvaxy, 

 hairy outside ; tube 3 lin. long, narrowly funnel-shaped above the 

 basal constriction ; lobes ovate, obtuse, the 2 outer tipped Avith 

 pencils of hairs, I^ lin. long, 1 lin. wide; anthers oblong, obtuse ; 

 ovary ovate, compressed, ^ lin. long; style columnar, | lin. long; 

 stigma subcapitate. 



Eastern Regiox : Xatal ; Xignnva, 6500 ft., Wylie in Ilerh. Wood, 10531 1 



8a. Lachnsea Burchellii (Meisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 420) ; leaves 

 opposite, slightly spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, nearly flat, 

 3-1-nerved; heads terminal or axillary, few-flowered, sessile; bracts 

 ovate, subacute, Ih lin. long, 1 lin. wide ; calyx minutely puberulous 

 outside ; scales glabrous ; flowers of the same shape and colour as 

 in i. diosmoides, ileisn., very short. L. BarcheUii, var. angustlfolia^ 

 Meisn, in DO. Prodr, xiv. 577. L. pliylicoides^ var, opponti foliar 

 Meisn, in Linrnea, xiv, 420. Gnidia teniujlora^ Eckl. d; Zeyh, ex 

 Mt'isn, in DC Prodr, xiv. 577. 



Var, ^ latifolia (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 577); leaves oblong or subovate- 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved on the back, up to 4 lin. long and 1 J lin. wide ; calyx densely 

 fcilky outside. Gonophylla nana, Edd, & Zeyh, in DC. Prodr, xiv. 577. 



Coast Region. George Div. ; on mountains near George, Drerje, 7370, EcJdon 

 dt Zeyher, Var. ^, Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens River, Ecklon, 78, Zeyher, 3757 1 

 and ^Yitllout precise locality, Harvey^ 823 ! 



This species resembles L. striata, Meisn., which can be readily distinguished bv 

 its glabrous calyx-tubo. 



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10a. Lachnaea alpina (Mcisn. ia DG. Prodr. xiv. 57S) ; an 



undershrub, corymbosely branched ; branches glabrous, at length 

 rough with old leaf-scars ; leaves scattered, spathulate-linear, 

 obtuse, flat, 1-nerved, glabrous, 4 lin. long, 1^ lin. ^vide, sessile or 

 subsessile ; head terminal, up to 20-flowered, sessile; calyx white- 

 silky outside, only seen young ; lobes oblong, rather longer than the 

 tube ; scales small, tiliform, slightly exserted. GonophyUa alpina^ 

 Eckl, if: Zeyh, ex Meisn. I.e. 



' Coast Kegiox. Tulbagh Div. ; Winterhock Mountains, EcJdon d: Zeyher, 71 1 

 * Allied to Z. capitata^ Meisn., which differs ia having linear pungent leaves. 



