156 Annuls of tin' Xnutli Afrlnui Museum. 



Tiibuit disci 5 mm. longus, infra cylindratus, supra campanulatus, 

 glaber ; lobi '7. r > mm. !<>ngi, '5 mm. lali, <>\ati, npice obtusi. FUamenfa 

 L'nim. longa ; anthcrac 1*3 mm. longae, lineares. Orurl/ini 4 mm. 

 loiigum, *75 mm. latum, liiieare, circiter 12-costatum, glabrum ; stylus 

 5 mm. longus, basi globosus ; lobi 1'25 mm. longi. Pappus 5*5 mm. 

 longus, deciduus. 



Summit of the Mont-aux- Sources, 9500 ft., December, Flanagan, 

 1948. 



A simple plant, 18-22 cm. high, with 1 or 2 peduncles and radical 

 leaves. Radical leaves 2-2*7 cm. long, '6-1*2 cm. broad, elliptic or 

 lanceolate, obtuse, attenuate at the base, entire, glandular with multi- 

 cellular hairs which disappear with age ; cauline leaves narrowing 

 upwards, -5-2*3 cm. long, 1-4 mm. broad, broadly linear to subulate, 

 obtuse or acute, subamplexicaule, glandular with multicellular hairs. 

 Peduncles 13'5-20 cm. long, one-headed. Capitulum radiate, 1*7 cni. 

 long, 2 cm. broad. Receptacle flat, honeycombed. Involucral bracts 

 1 cm. long, 1-1*5 rnni. broad, linear, obtuse, 1-2-nerved, with mem- 

 branous margins, densely glandular beneath with multicellular hairs. 

 Ray-florets blue r, bilabiate (sometimes the lips adhere together), 

 female. Corolla-tube 4 mm. long, '5 mm. broad, cylindi'ic, glabrous ; 

 lower limb 8 mm. long, 2*6 mm. broad, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, 

 rounded and 3-toothed at the apex, glabrous ; upper lip 8 mm. long, 

 1 mm. broad, obtus*'. Ovary 2 mm. long, '5 mm. broad, linear ; style 

 5 mm. long, filiform, swollen at the base ; lobes 1 mm. long. Disc- 

 florets hermaphrodite. Corolla-tube 5 mm. long, cyliudric in the lower 

 half, campanulate above, glabrous ; lobes '75 mm. long, *5 mm. broad, 

 ovate, obtuse. Stamens inserted at the widened part of the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments 1 mm. long, filiform, slightly swollen above; anthers 

 1*3 mm. long, linear, with an oblong or .elliptic gland at the apex. 

 Ovary 4 mm. long, '75 mm. broad, linear, about 12-ribbed, glabrous; 

 style 5 mm. long, filiform, globose at the base, glabrous ; lobes 1*25 mm. 

 long. Pappus 5*5 mm. long, deciduous. 



Near 8. inacroceplialus, DC., from which it differs in only having 

 one head to each peduncle. 



S. napifolius, MacOw. 



Eland's Eiver Valley at foot of the Mont-aux-Sources, near Witzie's 

 Hoek, 6-7000 ft., December, Bolus, 8198 ! 



DISTRIBUTION: Natal (Weenen County, 4-5000 ft.). 



S. seminivea, Wood & Evans. 



Eiver banks. A bush 3-4^ ft. high, flowers yellow. Autumn, 



