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ATHRIXIA, Ker. 

 A. elata, Soud. 



Mountain slopes and plateau. Flowers yellow and mauve. November. 

 A. Dieterlen, 236 ! 926 ! ; Basutolaml, without precise locality, Cooper, 

 735 ! ; Natal, Giant's Castle, 5000 ft., Sim. 



DISTRIBUTION: Transvaal (Magaliesberg). 



SESUTO : Phefshoana, ea Basiea. The small wind of the " Basiea." 

 As a cure for sore feet the Basutos use the plant in the following 

 manner : The patient places his feet, in which incisions have been made, 

 over a hole made in the ground ; they are then washed with a decoction 

 pi-epared from the leaves and roots. The blood from the incisions 

 must fall into the hole, which is afterwards filled witli earth. Also 

 used to brew a kind of tea. 



A. angustissima, DC. 



Slopes of high mountains at Potsaue, Leribe District. 6-15 in. 

 high, rays white. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 676 ! ; " Cave," Eland's 

 River Valley, at the foot of Mont-aux-Sources, 6800 ft., January, 

 tlunagan, 1943 ! ; Albertina, south of Harrismith, 5-6000 ft,, February, 

 Wood, 9726 ! ; Natal, Drakensberg, 5-6000 ft., February, Wood, 9726 ; 

 Doodmau's Krans Mtn. and Ben McDhui, 8800-9500 ft., March, 

 Galpin, 6696 ! ; Wittebergen, 6-7000 ft., Drege ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Tembulaud. 



SESUTO : Phefshoana e nyenyane. The small wind. See note under 

 A. elata. 



A. arachnoidea, Wood & Evans. 

 Natal, Polela, 6000 ft., Evans, 613. 

 DISTRIBUTION : Endemic, 



A. fontana, Macow. (PI. I. fig. B). 



Doodmau's Krans Mtn. and Tsitsa Footpath, 8000-8800 ft,, March, 

 Galpin, 6695 ! 6701 ; Summit, Mont-aux-Sources, 9500 ft., January, 

 Flanagan, 1952 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Somerset East. Tembuland. East Griqualaud. 

 Natal. 



A. pinifolia, N. E. Br. 



Natal, Bushman's Caves, Drabensberg, 6000 ft., July, Evans, 59 ; 

 Bed of stream, Polela, 6-7000 ft., July, rays white or pink, disc yellow, 

 Evans, 581 ! ; Mont-aux-Sources, c. 6000 ft., October, A. Bolus in Herb. 

 Bolus, 6880 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



