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Schlechter, 5325 !. Tulbagh Division : Cores Road, Tyson in Herb. 

 MacOwan Austro-Afric, 6048!. Cape Division: Tal>le Mountain, c. 

 500 ft., July, Rogers, 2435 ! September, MacOwan, 2340 ! and in Herb. 

 Norm. Austro-Afric, 93 !, 1000 ft., August, Tyson, 2434 ! ; Platteklip, 

 August, Wolley- Bod, 195 ! ; Green Point, October, Pappe ! ; Lion's 

 Head, 400 ft., November, Bolus I; near Wynberg, September, Bolus, 

 3398 ! ; Red Hill, August, Rogers, 11,246 ! ; Simonstown, July, 800 ft., 

 Scldechter, 1086!; Smithwinkel Bay, October, Bolusl Caledon 

 Division: Babyloon Toorn, August, Zeyherl. Swellendam Division: 

 River Zonder Einde, October, Pappel. 



*var. orientalis, Phillips, var. nov. 



Differs from the type in the leaves being usually bluntly serrated, 

 the bracts 2-toothed at the base, and the calyx-lobes 2 mm. long and 

 ovate. 



South-western Region. — Albany Division : Near Coif Links, 

 Grahamstown, May, Gane, 7 !. 



4. C. elata (Harv., Thes. Cap., ii, 39, t, 160). 



An erect plant 10-84 cm. high. Stems terete, furrowed, pubescent, 

 leafy. Leaves sessjle, sometimes becoming smaller at the top of the 

 stem, 1-10 cm. long, -3-4-3 cm. broad, oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, ovate or linear, acute or obtuse, rounded or narrowed 

 at the base, glabrous or pubescent, with toothed or serrated margins, 

 and with distinct veining beneath. Inflorescence usually compact, 

 sometimes lax, P2-30 cm. long, cylindric, oblong, sometimes almost 

 globose. Flowers solitary or 2-3-nate. Bract 1*1-3*5 cm. long, 

 linear or lanceolate-linear, acute or obtuse, pectinate or toothed ; 

 bracteoles 1-75-4 mm. long, linear, acute. Calyx-tube 1-1*5 mm. long, 

 campanulate or turbinate, ribbed, slightly jmbescent ; lobes 2*5-5 mm. 

 long, linear, acute, toothed, pubescent. Corolla-segments 4'5-8*5 mm. 

 long, linear or oblong-linear, sometimes subacuminate, acute or obtuse, 

 glabrous or pubescent. Filaments 2-3 mm. long, linear, broadened 

 below, pilose ; anthers l'5-2'5 mm. long, oblong, pilose on the back. 

 Style 2-2*5 mm. long, linear, glabrous ; stigma clavate or oblique. 



Sond., in Hare, and Sond., Fl. Cap., Hi, 601 ; C. Gerrardi, Harv., in 

 Harv. and Sond., I. c. ; C. Wilmsiana, Diets , in Engl. Jahrb., xxvi, 

 112 ; Cyphopsis elata, O. K., in Rev. Urn.. Hi, 186. 



Kalahari Region. — Transvaal : Stony Mountains at Houtbosch, 

 c. 4900 ft., February, Bolus, 10990!; mountain tops among rocks, 



* The species and varieties marked with an asterisk are not represented in 

 the South African Museum Herbarium. 



