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A small shrub 15-20 cm. high. Branches and branchlets glabrous. 

 Leaves 1"3-17 cm. loug, 1 mm. broad, linear, acute, glabrous. Capitula 

 axillary, massed at the end of the branchlets. Peduncles 1-5-2-5 cm. 

 long, terete, glabrous. Involucre of 5 bracts united at the base ; bracts 

 4-4-5 mm. long, 1'5 mm. broad, ovate, acuminate, obtuse, glabrous, 

 with narrow membranous margins. Receptacle honeycombed. L'ui/- 

 florets female. Corolla-tube '75 mm. long, terete, glabrous, limb 3'5 mm. 

 long, 1'5 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse, minutely 3-toothed at the apex, 

 4-nerved. Ovary 1 mm. long, 4-angled, glabrous. Disc florets herma- 

 phrodite. Corolla-tube 3 mm. long, cylindric in the lower half, cam- 

 pauulate above, glabrous; lobes '75 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Stamens 

 inserted in the widened portion of the corolla-tube ; filaments 1 mm. 

 long ; anthers 1*5 mm. long, linear, with an ovate appendage at the 

 apex. Ovary 75 mm. long, terete, glabrous. Pappus 1 mm. long, 

 barbate, caducous. 



In appearance this species is very similar to E. linifolius, DC., but 

 can readily be distinguished from it by the fact that the involucre is 

 only made up of 5 bracts, which are not strongly 3-ribbed. The shape 

 of the disc-floret is also very different. 



E. Evansii, Schltr. 



Slopes of high mountains, Pitseng, Leribe District. 4-8 ft. high, 

 flowers yellow. Spring-Summer. A. Dieterlen, 465 ! ; summit of 

 Drakensberg, March, Evans, 752. 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Sehlakoana. Meaning unknown. The stem is burnt and 

 smoked as a cure for headache. 



The species described by the late Dr. M. Wood (Kew Bull., 1914, 

 335) as E. Dieterlenii is this species. 



E. Galpinii, Phillips, sp. nov. Rami et rarnuli glabri. Folia 

 ericaea, patentia, 3-4 mm. longa, basi '5-1 mm. lata et saepe margiui- 

 bus glaudulosis, super plana, subtus convexa, apice acuta mucronata- 

 que. Capitula solitaria, axillaria, 4-5 mm. longa, circiter 1 cm. lata. 

 Pedunculus 1-3-2-5 cm. longus, teres, glaber. Bract eae involucrae 8, 

 conuatae, trinervigerae, glabrae ; tubus 2 - o mm. longus, 3 mm. latus, 

 campauulatus ; lobi l'5-2 mm. lougi, ovati, apice acuti vel subaeuti 

 glandulosique. Flores radii 6'25 mm. longi; tubus '75 mm. longus, 

 cylindratus, glaber ; limbus 5'5 mm. longus, 3 mm. latus, ellipticus, 

 apice obtusus et tridentatus. Ovarium 1 mm. longum, '5 mm. latum, 

 obovatum, glabrum ; stylus 1*5-2 mm. lougus, teres ; lobi -5 mm. 

 longi. Pappus 175 mm. longus, barbellatus, deciduus. Flores disci 

 2'6 mm. longi; tubus 2'5 mm. lougus, infra cylindratus, supra 



