Flora of f/if Leribe Plateau a ml Kmiirons. 165 



SESUTO: Papt't/nf. Derived from the verb "ho papetla " to 

 flatten. Lengoak<>. An orphan (so called because the stem bears a 

 single flower) . Lisebu. Backbitings. Leshala. An ember. Liteno. 

 An article of a woman's toilet. The crushed leaves are used by raw 

 native women as an article of their toilet. Also used by the witch- 

 doctors when consulting the divining bones. 



ARCTOTIS, Linn. 

 A. stoechadifolia. Berg. 



Veld and sides of dongas. -425 in. high, flowers white and mauve. 

 Spring-Summer. A. Dieterlen, 426 ! 



DISTRIBUTION: Clanwilliam. Cape. Humansdorp. Prince Albert. 

 Murraysburg. Colesberg. Aliwal North. Albert. Bechuanaland. 

 Orange Free State (Bloemfontein, Senekal). 



SESUTO : Putsoa-pulnlu e kholo. The large, grey old man. 



VEN1DIUM, Less. 

 V. arctotoides. Less. 



Veld. 2-13 in. high, flowers yellow. Spring-Summer. A. 

 Dieterlen, 51 ! ; Natal, Van Reenen, 5500 ft., November, Wood, 4688 ! 

 DISTRIBUTION : Transkei. 

 SESUTO : Putsoa-pululu. A grey old man. 



V. microcephalum. DC. 



Natal, Buffalo River, Gerrard & Mr Ken, 1014, March, Evans, 741 .- 

 Ben McDhui, 9200 ft., March, Gal-pin, 6745. 



DISTRIBUTION : Worcester. Queenstown. 



GAZANIA, Gaertn. 

 G. longiscapa, DC. 



Ben McDhui, 9600 ft., March, Galpin, 6746 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Malmesbury. Cape. Queenstown. Cradock. 

 G-raaff Reinet. Aliwal North. 



G. serrulata, DC. 



Veld and mountain slopes. 2-12 in. high, flowers yellow. Spring- 

 Autumn. A. Dieterlen, 160 ! ; west slopes of plateau and Qoqolosi 

 Peak, rays yellow, common, Phillips, 625 ! 985 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Natal. Bechuanaland. Transvaal (Middleburg, 

 Vereeniging. Errnelo). 



SESUTO : Tsikitlane. Derived from the verb " ho tsikitlana " to 

 become stiff from cold. Palesa e bitosa shoeshoe. The flower is called 

 " shoeshoe." 'J'he woolly hairs stripped from under the surface of the 



