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childreu. This is one of the first spring plants and grows in quantities 

 in the lands before ploughing has begun. Women and girls are seen 

 every day collecting the plant, which they cook as a spinach, but they 

 soon tire of it. 



W. depressa, Wood & Evans. (PI. Ill, fig. B). 



Under rocks on plateau. 4-12 in. high, flowers light-blue. Summer. 

 A. Dieterlen, 529 ! ; Natal, wet rocks on the summit of the Drakensberg, 

 March, Wood, 5977. 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Bolaoane. The small love-philter. Boea ba 'mutla. The 

 hair of a hare. Young men,, wishing to win the love of girls who 

 refuse to be courted, wash themselves with a decoction prepared from 

 the plant. 



W. depressa, W. & E. forma (PL V, fig. 4). 



Plateau and mountain slopes. 2-5 in. high, flowers white or pale. 

 Summer. A. Dieterlen, 413 ! ; forming mats, flowers pale blue, Phillips , 

 901! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Moriri oa letlapa. 



In habit the above specimens are totally different from the typical 

 form. Numerous compact slender branches arise from the apex of an 

 underground woody stem arranged in such a way as to form cushions. 



W. basutica, Phillips, sp. nov. (PI. V, fig. 3). Planta prostrata. 

 -Ram?' 4-10 cm. longi ; ramuli pilosi. Folia '4-1 cm. longa, T5-5 mm. 

 lata, elliptica, obovata, spathulata vel subrotuuda, apice obtusa, basi 

 attenuata, aliquando pilosa ; margines iutegrae, crassae. Flares 

 terminates, solitarii. PediceJlns ad 3'5 mm. longus, pilosus. Tubus 

 calycis 3 mm. longus, supra 4 mm. latus, pilosus ; lobi 4-5 mm. longi, 

 basi 2 mm. lati, ovati, apice acuti, paullo pilosi ; margines crassae. 

 Corolla paullo pilosa ; tubus 8 mm. longus, supra 5 mm. latus, campanu- 

 latus ; lobi 6 imn. longi, 4 mm. lati, elliptici, apice mucrouati ciliatique. 

 Filamenta 3 mm. louga, lineari-acumiuata ; antherae 2'5 mm. longae 

 lineares. Ovarimn 2 mm. loiigum, circiter 2 mm. latum, subglobosum ; 

 stylus 8 mm. loiigus, teres, infra minute pubescens, apice truncatus, 

 trilobatusque ; lobi '5 mm. longi. 



Mountain slopes and plateau. 2-8 in. long, flowers pale blue. 

 Spring. A. Dieterlen, 622. 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Ma/ole. 



A prostrate plant with creeping branches 4-10 cm. long. Branches 

 compact, forming tufts ; branchlets pilose. Leaves '4-1 cm. long, 



