Flora <>f tin- Leribf Plateau anil Em-inn/*. 61 



P. Bowkeri, Harv. 



Mountain and hill slopes. 6-20 in. high, flowers dark crimson. 

 Spring. A. Dieter Jet), 99!; mountains round Bester's Vlei, 6000ft,, 

 December, Bolus ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Komagh. Transkei. Natal. 



SBSUTO : Khvaara. Derived from " leklivaara " -a stony ridge. 

 This plant is usually found growing near stones or rocks. See also 

 P. re ii ifnr me, Sims. The green leaf is eaten by children ; they call it 

 " bulila " -Sorrel. The dried roots are used by the Bushmen for 

 making a kind of pap for their babies. Used medicinally for flushings, 

 colic and diarrhoea. 



P. dispar, N. E. Br. 



Bushy banks of a rivulet, lower slopes of Auqua Mtn., Witzie's 

 Hoek, c. 6000 ft., March, flowers whitish, strongly scented, Thode, 6 ! ; 

 Natal, Tiger Cave Valley, 6-7000 ft., among grass, January, Evans, 

 371. 



DISTRIBUTION : Natal. 



P. Schlechteri, B. Kunth. ? 



Eland's Eiver Valley at the foot of Mont-aux-Sources, 6800 ft,, 

 December, Flanagan \ 



DISTRIBUTION : Tembuland. 



OXALIS, Lwn. 



0. convexula. Jacq. 



Veld and mountain slopes. 3-6 in. high, flowers pink-mauve. 

 Summer- Autumn. A. Dieterlen, 170!; ravine, flowers pink, base of 

 corolla yellow, Phillips, 767, south slopes of Leribe plateau above 

 Khaniane, Phillips, 925 ! ; Bester's Vlei, near Harrismith, 5400 ft., 

 December, Bolus, 8135 ! near Witzie's Hoek, 5500 ft., Flanagan, 1936 ! 

 Caledon Eiver, Burke, 441 ! ; Natal, upper Tugela, 4000 ft., January,, 

 Wood, 3505 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Cape. Komgha. Albany. Port Elizabeth. Ceres. 

 Queenstown. Transkei. Tembulaud. Orange "Free State (Bloem- 

 fouteiii). 



SESUTO : Boli-Ja. Soi-rel or sourness. See 0. Smithii, Sond. 

 Phillips 925 is an exact match with Burke 441 labelled by Harvey in 

 our Herbarium 0. cotivexula, Jacq., but differs from the description in 

 the ' Flora Capeusis ' in the peduncles not being bracteate and the 

 sepals not ciliate. 



Mr. F. Bolus, who is revising the genus Oxalis, reports on the 



