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or less isolated and intermingled with the grasses. In general 

 it is evident that direct competition between the grasses and 

 them is avoided by their occupying a different stratum of soil. 

 The bulbous Monocotyledons — a characteristic South African 

 type of growth-form — are usually veld plants of this class, and 

 there are numerous tuberous or deep-rooted Dicotyledons 

 included also, e.g. species of Asclepiadaceae. 



(A) Associated Veld Plants growing intermingled with the 



Grasses. 



Polygala hottentota, Silene burchellii, Cerastium 

 c a p e n s e , Hypericum as t h i o p i c u m , M a h e r n i a m a 1 v as - 

 folium, Monsonia attenuata, Geranium ornitho- 

 podum, Pelargonium aconitif olium, P. pulveru- 

 lentum, P. schlechteri, P. flabellif olium, P. dispar, 

 Oxalis convexula, Rhus discolor, Argyrolobium 

 tuberosum, Indigofera, hilaris, 1. hirsuta, I. spp., 

 B u c h e n I- ce d e r a 1 o t o n o n o i d e s , M e 1 o 1 o b i u m c e r n u u m , 

 M. decumbens, Rhynchosia gibba, R. sp., Crassula 

 vaginata, Alepidea amatjnnbica, A. setifera, A. 

 longifolia var. angusta, A. jacobszias, A. ciliaris, 

 A. natalensis, A. concinna, Anthospernum sp., 

 Pentanisia variabilis, Galium rotundif olium var. 

 hirsutum, Scabiosa columbaria var. dissecta, S. 

 africana, Cephalaria attenuata, Nidorella depau- 

 ]ierata, Helichrysum cir. 12 spp., Berkheya cir. 

 6 spp., Senecio 3 or 4 spp., Haplocarpha scaposa, 

 Dicoma an o mala, Hypoch^ris radicata, Gerbei-a 

 parva, G. piloselloides and other Compositee, Lobelia 

 vanreenensis, Wahlenbergia zeyheri, Erica cerin- 

 thoides, Xysmalobium involucratum, X. parvi- 

 florum, X. stockenstromense, Schizoglossum cir, 

 8 spp., Asclepias humilis, A. cucullata, Pachycarpus 

 8 or 4 spp., Raphionacme divaricata var. j3 and other 

 Asclepiadaceas, Seb^ea cir. 5 spp., Nemesia flori- 

 bunda, N. melissasfolia, Diascia purpurea, D, 



