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It may be noted that localities at about 3000 ft. in the vicinity of 

 the Khamiesberg Range-e.gf., Bitterfontein, Stinkfontein, Garies- 

 show a typically Namaqualand vegetation on the plains, while higher 

 slopes bear forms of Khamiesberg affinity. The same locality, there- 

 fore, may be within two regions. In some cases two or more localities, 

 sometimes widely separated, bear the same name. Examples occurring 

 in the following list are : — 



Stinkfontein.- (1) South of Garies and the Khamiesberg; (2) m 

 the Richtersveld, 13 miles from the Orange Kiver. 



Modderfontem.-(l) ^ the Oliphant's Kiver Mountains (Cape 

 Region) ; (2) in the Kichtersveld, 13 miles from the Orange River ; 

 (3) in the Khamiesberg, near Sneeuwkop Mountain (see Othonna 

 euphorbioides) . 



Bitterfontein.— (I) In the south-western corner of Little Bushman- 

 land • (2) in Little Namaqualand, between Nieuwerust and Garies. 



It 'should also be noted that the Windhoek referred to below lies 

 beneath the western edge of the Giftberg, some 600 miles South of 

 the capital of the South-West African Protectorate which bears the 

 same name ; and that the Hex River, along which plants were collected 

 in November, 1911, is a small tributary of the Oliphant's River, not 

 the better known stream of that name which enters the Breede River 

 at Worcester. The latter is the locality for Tyson's numbers 772, 759, 

 on which Mr. Hutchinson founds his new species, Berleya Tysoni (q.v.). 



Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Memorial 

 Expeditions, 1908-1911. 



COMPOSITAE* 



By J. Hutchinson (Kew). 

 HOPLOPHYLLUM, DC. 



1. H. spinomm, DC. Prodr. v. 73. 



Little Namaqualand: Shrub 1-3 ft., fls. yellow, plentiful in dry 

 sand between Klipplaat and Bitterfontein, 3290, 3875 ; sandy karroid 

 plain south of Bakhuis, 5444. Bushmanland : Base of gneissic kopje 

 a few miles east of Nieuwefontein, 3493. 



Distribution.— Vanrhynsdorp and Clanwilliam. 



This is evidently an extremely local species and probably peculiar 

 to the sandy coast region between the mouths of the Oliphant and 



* Report of the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions in South- West Africa, 

 No. 77. 



