28'2 Annals of the South African Museum. 



A. Dieterlen, 454b ! ; Natal, at foot of Drakensbergen, Cooper, 3593; 

 upper part of Tugela River, Allison. 



DISTRIBUTION : Stutterheim. 



SESUTO : Khahla e Tcholo. The big thing which pleases. One of 

 the plants met with in a native doctor's " Lenaka " (a horn used as 

 a receptacle for carrying various medicines). 



G. psittacinus, Hook. 



Mountain slopes. 3-4 ft. high, flowers bright red with yellow 

 markings. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 454a ! ; Eland's River Valley at 

 the foot of the Mont-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., December, Bolus \ ; 

 Wittebergen. 4500-500 ft., Drege, 3502. 



DISTRIBUTION : Albert. Natal. 



SESUTO : Khahla e khalo. See under G. dracocephalus. 



G. Saundersii, Hook. fil. 



Slopes and plateaux of high mountains at Machache, Thaba Bosui 

 Distr. 26-35 in. high, flowers red with lighter markings. Summer. 

 A. Dieterlen, 774!; Wittebergen summit, Cooper, 605. 



DISTRIBUTION: Somerset East. Albert. Aliwal North. Natal. 



SESUTO : Khahla ea maloti. The "Khahla" of the high mountains. 

 The cooked conns are mixed with the food of a person suffering with 

 diarrhoea. 



G. edulis, Burch. 



Veld and mountain slopes, 22-34 iu high, flowers cream and mauve. 

 Summer. A. Dieterlen, 634!; Botsabelo, Maseru Dist. Flowers 

 whitish with crimson markings. Winter (June). A. Dieterlen, 

 1026!; Bester's Vlei, near Mont-aux-Sources, 5500 ft., January, 

 Flanagan, 2038!; Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 5400 ft., 

 December, Bolus ! ; Nelson's Kop, Cooper, 877 ; Basutoland, Cooper, 

 3317. 



DISTRIBUTION : King William's Town. Alexandria. G-raaff Reinet. 

 Somerset East. Bechuaualand. 



SESUTO : Khahla e nyenyane. The small thing which pleases. 



G. Dieterlenii, Phillips, sp. uov. Cormus 2'5 longus, circiter 

 3 cm. latus. Folia 6-8 : inferiora caulein amplexa, glabra, laminis 

 brevissimis vel 0; superiora 36-43 longa, 2-7 mm. lata, linearia, 

 acuminata, distincte uervigera, glabra ; margines crassae. Pedunculus 

 teres, glaber. Inflorescentia 9-25 cm. louga, 4-25-florifera. Spatha 

 1-5-25 cm. longa, ovata, acuminata, apice acuta. Tubus perianthii 

 1-1 '3 cm. longus, cyliudratus, paullo curvatus, glaber; lobi 1'5 cm. 

 longi, 8-9 mm. lati, elliptici vel ovato-elliptici, apice retusi mucrona- 



