114 Annals of the Smith African Museum. 



var. hirsutum, Sond. 



Natal. Oliver's Hoek, 5000 ft,, Wood, 3558. 

 DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



VALERIANEAE. 



VALERIAN A, Linn. 

 V. capensis, Thunb. 



Mountain slopes on tbe banks of streams. 10-30 in. high, flowers 

 white. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 278 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Natal. 



SESUTO : Motetele. Meaning unknown. The leaves are burnt in the 

 hut of a sick person to drive away the illness. 



DIPSACEAE. 



CEPHALARIA, ScJirad. 



C. ustulata, R. & Sch., var. pilosa. 



Veld, mountain slopes, and river banks. 15-35 in. high, flowers 

 white. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 161!; Caledon River, Zeyher, 307! 

 789 ! ; Harrismith, 5000 ft,, February, Wood, 4839 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Tsoene. A monkey. The crushed roots are placed on 

 embers and used to fumigate a hut visited by a " thokolose " (a 

 fabulous being believed in by the natives) to drive it away. It is 

 also used to rid the body of " insects " which have entered through 

 the witchcraft of an enemy. 



SCABIOSA, Linn. 

 S. columbaria, Linn. 



Veld and mountain slopes. 9-32 in. high, flowers white. Spring- 

 Summer. A. Dieterlen, 12 ! ; common round the Leribe plateau, flowers 

 white, Phillips, 583 ! 763 ! 769 ! 946 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Natal. Cape. Tulbagh. Albany. Pondoland.. 

 East Griqualand. 



SESUTO : Selomi. Colic pains. Tlhaku ea pitsi. The leg of the 

 horse. Mixed with Bhus divaricata and Cussonia panicalata it is 

 employed for colic pains and painful menstruation. Also used in\ 

 cases of difficult confinement. 



var. dissecta, Sond. 



Wolve Kop. Caledon River, Zeyher ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Cape. Uitenhage. Albany. Komgha. 



