Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions. 395 



minima, late depresso-campanulata, circiter 3 mm. diametro et 2 mm. 

 alta. Involucri bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, aeutae, circiter 1'25 mm. 

 longae, parce puberulae. Finns ? 1-seriati; corolla brevissima, 

 glabra; achaenia fertilia, leviter compressa, obovoidea 1'5 mm. longa, 

 dense papilloso-pilosa. Flores $ pauci ; corollae tubus apicem versus 

 valde expansus, 2 mm. longus, lobis subacutis. Achaenia minuta. 



Gape : Ceres Division ; damp places at the head of Mitchell's Pass, 

 Ceres, 1080 ft., rls. white, Pearson, 3534. 



[Also collected by Bolus in October, 1873, in the same locality at 

 about 1800 ft. (Bolus, No. 2616) ; Rehmann, No. 2602, from the 

 mountains above Woi'cester, may also belong here ; the leaf-lohcs are 

 a little naiTow and not so abruptly mucronate as in the other 

 specimens.] 



This is a most charming and neat little plant which has been passing 

 in herbaria under the name of Hippia gracilis, Less., var. repens, 

 Harv. I consider it to be distinct from the type of this variety, which 

 is at Kew, and it may readily be separated by its petiolate palmately 

 3-5-partite leaves with much broader conspicuously mucronate lobes. 

 I have much pleasure in associating with it the name of Mrs. F. Bolus, 

 who is sufficiently well known in connection with South African 

 Botany to need further mention. 



CINERARIA, Linn. 



1. G. aspera, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 672. 



Khamiesberg : Under rocks on kopje south-west of Belief ontein 

 Mission Station, 6303. 



Distribution. — South Upper Region and Karoo eastward to 

 Stockenstrom. 



2. G. erosa, Harv. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 309. 

 Cape: Among rocks on hill- tops at Hottentot's Kloof, 4900. 

 Karoo: Between Gansfontcin and Pappekuil, 5035. 

 Distribution.- — South-western disi ricts. 



3. G. canescens, Wendl. Obs. ex Link. Eniim. Hort. Berol. ii. 

 332. 



Little Namaqualand : Lithophyte on granite rocks in crevices, 

 Nieuwerust, 5512. 



Little Bushmanland : In dry ravine 15 miles north of Alewyn's 

 Fontein, 3000 ft., hush 12 fl., 3932. 



Distribution. — Previously collected by Drege and Whitehead in 

 Little Namaqualand, 



