THE PLANT ECOLOGY OF DBAKENSBl'JKG EANGE. 561 



for the different formations, e.g. Veld, Vlei, Bush, Fynbosch, 

 etc., rather than to introduce terms from other countries, 

 such as Savaniuih, Steppe, etc. 



Scleropliyllous plant formations like Fynbosch are known 

 as Chaparral in California, Espinal in Chile, and different 

 varieties of the Mediteri*anean Maquis are described by 

 Warming'.' In places in the Drakensberg, Fyiibosch appears 

 to be similar to the Mediterranean Garigue. On the exposed 

 slopes, Warming's description of Garigue applies exactly.^ 

 '•' The rocks often lie exposed; but small shrubs (j-lj metres 

 in height), ixndershrubs and herbs seize upon the soil and 

 clefts of the rocks, and despite their seeming scantiness, deck 

 these in motley array." Like the Garique and Maquis, the 

 Fynbosch is transitional between fellfield and woodland. 

 It has many species in common with the mountain-top vege- 

 tation. 



The most characteristic species are: Cliff ortia lineari- 

 folia,C. natalensis, C. serrulata, C. sp. nov., Myr- 

 sine africana, Passerina filiformis, and other species, 

 Phylica jianiculata, Metalasia muricata, with a great 

 variety of others, of which the Compositee and the Eri- 

 caceae are the most prominent. The following list is given 

 partly as the result of the writer's observations and partly 

 taken from other records. 



Composite. — Heliclirysum randii, H. trilineatum, 

 H. adenocarpum, H. fulgidum var. monocephalum, 

 H . h y p o 1 e u c u m , H . r e t o r t o i d e s , H . a p p e n d i c u 1 a t u m , 

 H. lanatum, H. album, H. sutherlandi, H. sessile, 

 H. infaustum, Aster perfoliatus, Felicia drakens- 

 bergensis, F. laevigata, F. amelloides, Osmites sp,, 

 Gymnopentzia pilifera, Pentzia cooperi, Athanasia 

 montana, A. thodei, Eumorphia sericea, Heteromma 

 simplicif olia, Printzia laxa, Euryops evansii, Ath- 

 rixia angustissima, A. gerrardi, A. elata, A. pini- 

 folia, Cenia hispida, Sell istostephium cratiegifo- 



1 Warming, E., ' Plant Ecology,' p. 306. 



2 Ibid., p. 304 



