THE PLANT EOOLOfiY OF DIJAKKNSBERG RANGE. 549 



Vangueria lasiantlia, with dwai'feJ Yellow-woods and 

 occasional othet* trees of bush and scrub, form a distinct 



type- 

 In places, the interesting Widdringtonia cnpressoide* 

 (the Berg cypress) occurs in similar situations. The stream 

 bank type also includes the following associated plants : 

 Argyrolobiuni marginatum, Psoralea pinnata, Bow- 

 keria gerrardiana, Athanasia punctata, Schizostylis 

 coccinea, Artemisia afra, Melianthus sp., Phygelius 

 jequalis, Indigofera hedyantha, Geranium ornitho- 

 podum, Gomphostigma scoparioides. 



In the stream-bed itself, growing among the boulders, we 

 have such species as the following: Indigofera schlech- 

 teri. Hibiscus sp., Aster filifolius, Stcsbe cinerea, 

 Senecio tanasetoides, Osniites sp., Helichrysum 

 splendidum, H. tenuifolium, H. reflexuni, Gerbera 

 sp., Valeriana capensis, Sutera sp., Zalusianskya 

 goseloides, Ajuga ophrydis, Lessertia perennansj 

 Selago flanagani, Scilla concinna, Ornithogalum 

 sp., Juncus dregeanus, Carex petitiana, and other 

 Cyperacea3, with grasses such as Aristida species, 

 Koeleria cristata, Agrostis lachnantha, Elionurus 

 argenteus, Tricholtena setifolia, Andropogon nardus 

 var. prolixus and other species, Imperata arundinacea, 

 Pennisetum thunbergii, Arundinella ecklonii, Era- 

 grostis nebulosa, Stiburus alopecuroides, and th6 

 ferns Elaphoglossum spathulatum, Dryopteris ber- 

 giana, Blechnum attenuatum, B. punctulatnm, 

 Cyclophorus africanus. 



The Leucosidea scrub and the veld occupy the habitat 

 in many places in the manner described above. 



7. VLEIS. 



Seeing that drainage is so good, vleis are nowhere of great 

 extent, and where they do occur the water is rarely stagnant 

 Marshy spots along the stream-banks have the same types of 



