160 Annul* of flu- Mouth African 



campanulatus, glaber ; lobi 1 unn. longi, - 5 nun. lati, ovati, obtusi. 

 Fil-aiiiettfa '75 mm. longa, filiformis ; untherae 1 nun. longae, lineares. 

 Ovarlinii '75 nun. longum, "3 mm. latnin, oblongum, glabrum ; stylus 

 2'5 nun. longus, teres, apice bifid ns, basi subglobosus. Pappus 

 1'75 mm. lougus, bai'bellatus, dcciduus. 



Tsitsa Footpath on the Drakensbergen, District Maclear, c. 

 8200 ft.. Galpin, 6739. 



Branches and branch lets glabrous. Leaves ericoid, horizontal, 

 3-4 mm. long, '5-1 mm. broad at the base, flat above, keeled beneath, 

 acute, mucronate, expanded and flattened at the base, glabrous, 

 usually with a few stalked glands on the margins. Capitula solitary, 

 axillary, 4-5 mm. long, about 1 cm. wide when measured across the 

 rays. Peduncle l - 3 2'5 cm. long, terete, glabrous. Involucre of 

 8 connate 3-nerved glabrous scales ; tube 2'5 mm. lung, 3 mm. wide, 

 campanulate ; lobes 1 '5- "2 mm. long, ovate, acute or subacute, with a 

 few glandular hairs at the apex. Ray-florets female; tube '75 mm. 

 long, cylindric, glabrous; limb 5'5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, elliptic, 

 obtuse, bluntly 3-toothed at the apex. Ovary 1 mm. long, '5 mm. 

 broad, obovate in outline, glabrous; style l - 5 2 mm. long, terete; 

 lobes '5 mm. long. Pappus 1'75 mm. long, barbellate, deciduous. 

 Disc-florets hermaphrodite; tube 2 - 5 mm. long, narrow-cylindric in 

 the lower half, broadly campanulate above; lobes 1 mm. long, - 5 mm. 

 broad, ovate, obtuse. Stamens inserted at the junction of the two 

 portions of the corolla-tube; filaments - 75 mm. long, filiform ; anthers 

 1 mm. long, linear. Ovary - 75 mm. long, '3 mm. broad, oblong in 

 outline, glabrous ; style 2'5 mm. long, terete, bifid at the apex, sub- 

 globose at the base. Pappus T75 mm. long, bai-bellate, deciduous. 



Allied to E. oligoglossus, DC., from which it differs in the 

 peduncles being much longer than the leaves and by having glabrous 

 ovaries. 



E. montanus, Scliltr. 



Tsitsa Footpath, Drakensberg, 9200 ft,. March, Galpin, 6738 ! ; stony 

 places on the summit of the Mont-aux-Sources, c. 9000ft., Jauuaiy, an 

 erect or prostrate shrub, Thode, 30 !, 9800-10,000 ft., January, Bolus, 

 6393 ! Flanagan, 1949 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



E. multinervis, N. E. Br. 



Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 6500 ft., January, Flanagan, 

 1994! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



