300 Annals of the 8out.li African Museum. 



Summer. A. Dieterlen, 385!; ravines, flowers blue, Phillips, 639!; 

 Mont-aux-Sources, 8000 ft., April, E. Dyke in. Herb. Mrltk\, in 

 Herb. Mnwi A ustro-Afric. 5518 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Komgha. East Grriqualand. 



SESUTO : Lef la i>lwfu. The thick shiny saliva of the Eland. A 

 lotion made from the crushed roots is used to wash a newly-born 

 child to make it strong. 



TULBAGHIA, Linn. 

 T. acutiloba, Harv. 



Damp spots on veld. 10-22 in. high, flowers greenish-brown. 

 Spring. A. Dieterlen, 376!; Mont-aux-Sources, 8000 ft., January, 

 Flanagan, 2048 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Cape. Stockenstroom. Queenstown. Somerset 

 East. Tembuland. East G-riqualand. Natal. Transvaal (Pre- 

 toria). 



SESUTO : Motsuntsnnyane. Meaning unknown. The plant in the 

 young state is eaten as a vegetable. A lotion is prepared from the 

 cooked plant with which to wash incisions made on a child and on 

 the bi'easts of the mother in cases of depressed fontanel in infancy. 

 Madame Dieterlen notes that this plant is devoid, or almost so, of scent. 



T. alliacea, Linn. f. 



Mountain slopes. 10-25 in. high, flowers dark yellow. Summer. 

 A. Dieterlen, 702 f 



DISTRIBUTION : Malmesbury. Cape. Albany. Uitenhage. 

 Humansdorp. Stockeustroom . King William's Town. Komgha. 

 Natal. Transvaal (Pretoria). 



SESUTO : Moelela. Meaning unknown. 



T. Dieterlenii, Phillips, sp. nov. Folia circiter 7, 10-18 cm. longa, 

 1-1'5 mm. lata, linearia, apice acuta, basi plana, membranacea, 8 mm. 

 lata, glalira. Pedunculus 20-34 cm. longus, 2-3 mm. latus, teres, 

 supra angustatus. Bracteae 1'5 cm. lougae, 4-4'5 mm. latae, ovatae, 

 acuminatae, apice acutae, membrauaceae, glabrae. Inflorescentia 

 4-6-florifera. Pedicellus - 6-2'5 cm. longus, terea, glaber. Tubus 

 perianthii 5 mm. longus, campauulatus, glaber; lobi 5 mm. longi, 

 3 mm. lati, oblougi, apice acuti, glabri. Corona integra, 3 mm. longa ; 

 margo undulata. Stamina sessilia ; superiora coronae aequalia ; 

 antherae 2 mm. lougae, 1'5 mm. latae, oblongae. Ovarium l - 5 mm. 

 longum, 2 mm. latum, suborbiculatum ; stylus '5 mm. longus, 1 mm. 

 latus ; stigma 1'75 mm. latum, capitatum. 



