298 A-minls of 1lic Sonfh African Museum. 



SESUTO : KJiongoana-tsmgoana. The small cattle of the little fields 

 (an allusion to the size of the plants and to the fact that they grow 

 together as cattle and sheep feed together). The principal use of this 

 plant is to make dolls for barren women. The crushed roots are 

 burnt and m:ide into a paste with which the native doctors fashion a 

 doll (without legs or arms). This doll is clothed and ornamented 

 with beads and carried on the back as native women carry their 

 children. The women must pretend to suckle it as if it were a child. 

 By observing those customs she hopes to become pregnant. The 

 native name for these dolls is " Ngoan'a Ivhongoana tstngoana," 

 meaning the child of " Khongoana-tsTngoana." 



E. natalense, Bkr. 



Natal, in valley near Van Beeuen, 5-GOOO ft., December, flowers 

 purple with white tips, Wood, 5861 ! 



DISTRIBUTION: Komgha. Pondolancl. East Griqualand. Natal. 



E. dissitiflorum, Schltr. (ex descr.). 



Mountain slopes. 20-35 in. high, flowers white and reddish. 

 Spring-Summer. A. Dieterlen, 366 ! ; mountains between Bester's 

 Vlei and Mont-aux- Sources, December, Flanagan, 8263 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Queenstown. 



SESUTO .- Ts<:bc ea Khomo. The ear of an ox. Lelcoto la litsoene. 

 The " Lekoto " of the monkeys. Tscbc ngoe. One ear. 



E. Cooperi, Bkr. 



Basutoland, without precise locality, Cooper, 3307, 3310; Natal, in 

 a valley near Van Eeenen's Pass, 5-6000 ft., Wood, 4519. 

 DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



E. sp. 



Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 5300 ft., December, Bolus ! 

 There are no leaves on the specimen. 



ANTHERICUM, Linn. 

 A. Cooperi, Bkr. 



Basutoland, without precise locality, Cooper, 3302. 

 DISTRIBUTION : Natal (no locality). Probably endemic. 



A. capitatum, Bkr. 



Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 5400 ft., December, Jlolus, 8264! 

 Natal, in swamp at Van Reeneu, 5-6000 ft., December, Wood, 5483 !, 

 4795 ; flowers white, Wood, 9640 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



