17(i An naif i >f the South African Museum. 



A sina.ll marsh herb with creeping stems rooting at the nodes 

 Lea rex - 5-2'2 cm. long, 3-b' mm. broad above, obovate or obovate- 

 elliptic, obtuse, narrowed at the base into a fiattish petiole 3-8 mm. 

 long, glabrous. Flowers solitary in tho axils of the leaves, pedicelled. 

 Pi- died 3 mm. long, terete, gl.ibrous. Calijj- 2'75 mm. long, cut 

 almost to the base; lobes 1'25 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, subacute, 

 glabrous. Corolla-tube 4 mm. long, 4'5 mm. broad when flattened out, 

 glabrous ; larger lobes 3'5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, acute, glabrous ; smaller lobes 4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, 

 oblong or oblong-linear, acute, glabrous. Stamens monadelphous ; 

 filaments 4 mm. long, flat, glabrous ; anthers T75 mm. long, the 

 lower two with a few setose hairs. Ovary T5 mm. long, ovate in 

 outline, glabrous; style 3'5 mm. long, terete; stigma minute, conical, 

 with a ring of fine hairs. 



In habit this plant resembles L. mascoides, Cham., to which it is 

 allied, but differs in having entire leaves. 



L. Tysonii, Phillips, sp. uov. (PL I, tig. A). Herba acaulesceus. 

 F<>H it radicalia, '8-9'5 cm. longa, '2-2 - 6 cm. lata, obovata, lanceolata 

 vel elliptica, apice obtusa. basi angustata, glabra. Pedunculus 

 7-46'5 cm. longus, glaber. Bracteae T5-3 mm. lougae, liueares. 

 Pedicellus -6-1-2 cm. lougus. Tubus calycis 3'7 mm. longus, glaber; 

 lobi 2-4 mm. longi, lineares, apice subacuti. Tubus corollae 5 mm. 

 longus, 4 mm. latus ; lobi 3-(r5 mm. longi, obovati, glabri. Filamenta 

 6 mm. longa, glabra ; antherae 2 mm. longae. Ovarium 1-3 mm. 

 longum, glabrum ; stylus 4 mm. longus, teres, glaber ; lobi - 5 mm. 

 longi, oblongi. Frxctus 8 mm. lougus, 3'5 mm. latus, 5-costatus, 

 glaber. 



Banks of the Hlotse iiiver, 3-12 in. high, flowers mauve. Spring 

 (October). Makokoane, Leribe District, A. Dieterlen, 811 ; East 

 Griqualand, grassy places near Kokstad, 5000 ft., November, Tyson, 

 1889, Tyson in Herb. Norm. Austro-Afric., 571. 



SESUTO : Poli ea nuka. 



A herbaceous plant with radical leaves and long subnude peduncles 

 arising from the rootstock. Peduncles glabrous, naked except for 

 1 or 2 pairs of leaves near the base. Radical leaves '8-9'5 cm. long, 

 "2-2'6 cm. broad, obovate, lanceolate or elliptic, obtuse, narrowed at 

 the base into a flattened petiole, entire or remotely serrulate, glabrous. 

 Injlnrescence racemose. Bracts 1-5-3 mm. long, linear. Pedicels 

 6-l'2 cm. long, elongating in the fruit up to 3'5 cm. Calyx-tube 

 o'7 mm. long, turbinate, sometimes obovate in outline, glabrous ; lobes 

 2-4 mm. long, linear, subacute. Corolla-tube 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad 



