Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Manorial Expeditions. 189 



Cape Kegion : Sandy flats between Driefontein and Heeren Loge- 

 ment. Bush 4-6 ft. high September 22nd, 1911, 679<;. 

 Named in honour of Dr. H. H. W. Pearson. 



3. PEOTEA. 



1. P. marginata, Thunb. in Hoffm. Phytogr. Blaett., i., 15. 



Cape Region : Hilltops at Hottentot's Holland Kloof; tree 15 ft., 

 4915. Mitchell's Pass, near top ; common ; tree 10 ft., 5109. 

 Oliphant's River Mts. near Warm Baths; shrub 5 ft., flowers silvery 

 pink, bracts tipped with magenta hairs, 6909 ; shrub 8-9 ft. high, 

 6908; bracts bluish-pink, tipped with black hairs, 6934. Giftberg 

 Range, 1-2,000 ft., 7629. 



This species has also been recorded from the Tulbagh, Paarl, 

 Swellendam, and Port Elizabeth (?) Divisions. 



2. P. grandiflora, Thunb., Diss. Prot., 56. 



Cape Region : Common on hillsides at Leeuwfontein, 2,500ffc. : tree 

 12-15 ft. high, 3684. Top of Oliphant's River -Mis behind Warm 

 Baths; 6-7 ft. high, beads yellowish-green, young shoots brilliant 

 red, 6944. Giftberg Range, 1-2,000 ft.; tree 12-15 ft. high, 

 common, 7418 bis. 



A fairly widely distributed species, has been collected in the Paarl, 

 Cape, Caledon, Swellendam, Humansdorp, and Ceres Divisions. 

 This tree also grows plentifully on the Zwartbergen in the Laings- 

 burg Division at an altitude of 4-5,000 ft. 



3. P. glabra, Thunb., Diss. Prot., 42. 



Cape Region : On edge of plateau on top of Nardouw Kloof, 5117. 

 Giftberg Range, 1-2,000 ft. ; tall bush, 4-5 ft., common, 7418. 



Specimens of this species were collected by Drege ;im\ Schlechter 

 in the Clanwilliam Division and by Drege in the Calvinia Division. 



4. P. scolymoccphala, Reich., Syst. PL, i., 271. 



Cape Region : Oliphant's River Valley near Modderfontein ; small 

 bush, bracts yellow, 6917. 



Also recorded from the Paarl, Cape, and Stellenbosch Divisions. 



5. P. scabra, R. Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc, x., 91. 



Cape Region: Top of Oliphant's River Mts. behind Warm Baths, 

 6910. 



