Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions. 185 



5349. Near to Modderfontein, Oliphant's Eiver Valley ; flowers 

 yellow, 6912, 6913 J , 6916 ? . Eight-hand mountain-side behind 

 Warm Baths ; shrub 2 ft., 6913. Giftberg Eange, 1-2,000 ft. ; 

 bush 4-6 ft., 7419. 



Hitherto only recorded from the Piquetberg and Tulbagh 

 Divisions, and is the first time the female plant has been collected. 

 A full description of the species follows. 



Bush 13-3 - 3 m. high. Branches densely pubescent, almost 

 tomentose. Leaves subequal in the two sexes, 2-1-4 in. long, 

 •35-1 cm. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, glabrous 

 or finely pubescent. Male inflorescence solitary at the end of the 

 branches, 8 mm. long, 9 mm. in diameter, subglobose. Involucral 

 bracts 2-4-seriate, 3 - 5 mm. long, 2-25 mm. broad, ovate, sub- 

 acuminate, obtuse, tomentose, ciliate. Floral-bracts 3 - 5 mm. long, 

 linear, concave, obtuse, villous. Perianth-tube 2*5 mm. long, 

 cylindric, villous ; segments 2 mm. long, linear, pilose ; limb 1 mm. 

 long, linear, obtuse, villous. Anthers -75 mm. long, linear. Style 

 4-5 mm. long, terete, villous ; stigma "75 mm. long, clavate. 

 Fruiting female head 3-3 - 5 cm. long, about 3 cm. in diameter, 

 globose, not hidden by the upper foliage leaves. Involucral bracts 

 3-4-seriate, similar to those of the male. Floral bracts woody, 

 1*5 cm. long, 1*7 cm. broad, ovate, rounded above, strongly concave, 

 tomentose, becoming densely villous on the upper half. Perianth 

 1-2 cm. long, 2'5 mm. broad, oblong, membranous, glabrous ; in the 

 upper half -5 mm. broad, linear, villous. Hypogynous scales 35 mm. 

 long, linear. Ovary 4 mm. long, obovate in outline, strongly keeled 

 on the dorsal face, sparsely pilose ; style 6 mm. long, linear, bulbous 

 and villous at the base ; stigma oblique. Fruit 1-2 cm. long, - 9 cm. 

 broad, biconvex, obovate in outline, glabrous, except for a few hairs 

 at the apex, dark, almost black. 



2. L. adscendens, E. Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc, x., 61. 



Cape Eegion : Top of mountains at Hottentots' Kloof ; bush 2 ft., 

 common, 4922, 5046. Top of Oliphant's Eiver Mts. behind Warm 

 Baths, 6918 $ ; Kloof below Warm Baths, 6942 ; bracts golden, 

 6856 S , 6941, 6939 2 ; Oliphant's Eiver Mts. ; common in patches; 

 bracts yellow with very red heads, 6923 ; Oliphant's Eiver Valley, 

 near Modderfontein; bush 2£ ft., flowers silvery pink, 6915; 

 Oliphant's Eiver Mts. behind Warm Baths; bush 3£ ft., 6903. Gift- 

 berg Eange, 1-2,000 ft. ; bush 2-3 ft., common, 7410, 7412. Without 

 precise locality, 5046. 



This is a very common species widely distributed over the South- 



