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S. pristisepala, Hieru. 



Mountain slopes. 8-25 in. high, flowers cream or yellow. Summer. 

 A. Dieterlen, 424 ! ; Tsitsa footpath, c. 7250 ft., March, Galpin, 6803 ! ; 

 Eland's River Valley, near the Mout-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., January, 

 Flanaijait, 2085 ! ; Qoqolosi Peak, flowers dark-coloured, leaves glis- 

 tening when fresh, scented, Phillips, 951 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Phiri ea hlaha. The wolf of the grass. Use unknown 



S. crassicaulis, Hiern. 



Wittebergeu, Dri-ge, 7925, Cooper, 597. 



DISTRIBUTION : Queenstown. Tarkastad. Graaff Eeiuet. Aber- 

 deen. Murraysburg. Albert. Colesberg. Natal (near Charlestown, 

 5000 ft.). Orange Free State (Sand River). Transvaal (near Stan- 

 derton). 



var. purpurea, Hiern. 



Grassy and stony places near Matehi, Basutolaud, c. 6450 ft., 

 January, flowers dark purple or lilac, the whole plant strongly scented, 

 Thode, 42 ! ; top of Mont-aux-Sources, 11,000 ft,, Evan*, 760. 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



S. mollis, Hieru. 



Near the Caledon River, Burke, 441, 368. 



DISTRIBUTION : Alexandria. Albany. Bedford. Colesberg. Gri- 

 qualaud West. 



S. filicaulis, Hieru. 



Near rocks on mountain slopes. 4-15 in. high, flowers white. 

 Spring-Summer-Autunin. A. Dieterlen, 260 ! ; in rocky places on the 

 Wittebergen, 5-6000 ft., Drt-ge, 7924; mountain slopes behind the 

 Mission Station and N.E. slopes of Leribe plateau, 9-12 in. high, 

 flowers white, growing under rocks, common, Phillips, 544!, 814! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Mopota-mafika. He who surrounds the rocks. Used as 

 a medicine for chest coinplaints. 



S. Henrici, Hiern. 



In open places at Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 5400 ft., 

 January. Bolus, 8228 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Tembuland. 



S. atropurpurea, Hiern. 



Slopes of Qoqolosi Peak. Flowers brown. January. A. Dieterlen f 

 938! ; a small woody bush, Qoqolosi Peak, Phillips, 939 !, 950 ! 



