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for the cliffs. In the wet spots, CyperaceEe and otlier 

 marsh plants occur. There is, therefore, considerable varia- 

 tion in the type of vegetation. On the whole it may be 

 described as a mixture of heathers and Composites, with 

 tufted grasses and a variety of other associated plants. The 

 Ericacea? include Erica algida, B. woodii, E. frigida, 

 E. caffrorum, E. oatesii, E. alopecurus, E. thodei. 

 Among the Compositte, the genus Helichrysum is again 

 much in evidence, the following species being recorded : 

 H. trilineatum, H. chionosphasrum, H. elegantissi- 

 mum, H. subglomeratum, H. fulgidum, H. cymosuni, 

 H. album, H. alticolum var. montanum, H. calo- 

 cephalum, H. cooperi, H. flanagani, H. randii, H. 

 setigerum, H. aureo-nitens (in wet places), H. re- 

 tortoides (rocky places). 



Other Compositas: Aster uliginosus, Vernonia 

 natalensis, Felicia drakensbergensis, F. pinua- 

 tifida, A thrixia fontana, Eumorphia sericea, Senecio 

 barbatus, S. gramineus, S. seminivea, S. tugelensis, 

 S. reptans, Euryops montanus, Dimorphotheca cau- 

 lescens, Ursinia montana, Berklieya (Stobam multi- 

 juga), Macowania glandulosa. 



Other orders: Heliophila subulata, Lessertia 

 flanagani, Geum capense, Guthriea capensis, Mes- 

 embryanthemum nubigenum (rock fissures), Crassula 

 rubescens, Alepidea thodei, Psammotropha myrian- 

 thus, Wahlenbergia depressa (wet rocks), Seb;ea 

 marlothii, S. procumbens, S. spathulata, S. thomasii, 

 Sutera crassicaulis var. purpurea, Zaluzianskya 

 montana, Z. flanagani, Ornithogalum flanagani, 

 Androcymbium natalense, Wurmbea kraussii, AV. 

 pusillus, Hypoxis rubella, Syringodea flanagani, 

 Romulea thodei, Commelina africana, and in the 

 marshy spots, Aponogeton spathaceum, Luzula afri- 

 ■cana, Cyperus f lava, Scirpus falsus, Garex drakens- 

 'berffensis. . . , 



