Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions. 381 



bush 2 ft.. PiUans 5313; plateau to south of Nardouw Mountains. 

 Pearson 5413; Oliphant's River Mountains: road near Baths, shrub 

 2 ft., fis. cochineal pink, Stephens 7009, 7010. [Collected also in 

 Clanwilliam by Mader (No. 44) Herb. Macowan.] 



RELHANIA, Thunb. 



1. R. sqnarrosa, L'Herit. Sert. Angl. 24. 



Cape: Giftberg, 1-2000 ft., bush 1 ft, high, 7431 ; common at low 

 levels, Leeuwfonteiu, 3188. Oliphant's River Mountains: On lower 

 slopes of mountain behind Farmer's Baths, 1-2 ft., Ms. yellow. 6958, 

 G971. 



Distribution. — Calvinia through Worcester to Swellendam and 

 Mossel Bay. 



2. R. affinis, Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 300. 



Cape: Between top of Leeuwfonteiu Pass and Hottentot's Kloof. 

 3203, 3209 ; roadside between Ceres and Leeuwfonteiu, 3249. 

 Distribution. — Piquetberg and Worcester Divisions. 



3. R. sedifolia, Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 301. 



Cape: Giftberg. 1-2000 ft., bush 12 in. high, fls. yellow, 7435. 

 Khamiesberg : Wilgehout Ravine, bush 2 ft., fls. yellow, 6737. 

 Upper Region : 15 miles north of Alewyn's Fontein, on gneiss ridge, 

 round bush 3 ft. high, 2489. 



Distribution. — Vanrhynsdorp and Clanwilliam Divisions. 



4. Relhania coriferta, Hutchinson, sp. nov. (fig. 3) affinis R. sedi- 

 foliae, Harv , sed foliis latioribus spatulato-obovatis, capitulis turbi- 



nato-cylindricis differt. 



Frutex dense ramosus, ramis ascendentibus subscabridis dense 

 foliatis. Folia conferta, plerumque alterna, spatulato-obovata, minute 

 mucronata, ad basin sensim angustata, 4-5 mm. longa, L5-2 - 5 mm. 

 lata, crasse coriacea. rigida, arete punctata, marginibus breviter pubes- 

 centibus. Capitula terminalia, solitaria vel rarius geminata, brevis- 

 sime pedunculata, turbinato-cylindrica, 1 cm. longa, apice 7 mm. 

 expansa. Involucri bracteae circiter 5-seriatae, ab extremo sensim lon- 

 giores, exteriores elliptico-rotundatae, interiores lineari-oblongae, 

 obtusae, usque ad 5 mm. longae, l - 25 mm. latae, nitidae, glabrae- 

 Receptactdum planum, 125 mm. latum. Pdleae lineares, subacutae, 

 hyalinae, 5-6 mm. longae, glabrae. F/<>rcs radii pauci, inconspicui ; 

 corollae tubus cylindricus, glandulosus, 2*5 mm. longus ; limbus 

 oblongo-lanceolatus, 3 mm. longus; achaenia cylindrica, 3 mm. longa, 



