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proportions. It does not seem to flower until it has reached a 

 considerable age, but afterwards it flowers every year. The type 

 is represented in the Herbarium of the Albany Museum by a 

 specimen from woods near Komgha, collected in Oct., 1892, by 

 Mr. H. G. Flanagan (no. 1329). With us and in Capetown the 

 type and the var. Barherae flower in June and July. To the 

 description in the Flora Capensis I have to add that, though the 

 outer petals form a tube which is about half the length of the 

 perianth, the inner are free. The peduncle is frequently 

 branched. 



*('»1a. a. ScMi'clderi, Schihil. n. sp. Habit of growth not known ; 

 leaf-blade unspotted, falcate, olivaceous (in the dried specimen), 

 fuscous at the base, 20 cm. long, 35 cm. broad at the base, margin 

 with deltoid — cuspidate brown horny prickles about 2 mm. long ; 

 peduncle (as far as known) simple, short, with numerous sterile 

 membranous lanceolate cuspidate bracts, the lowest 2"2 cm. long, 

 getting gradually shorter higher up ; racemes dense, 13-10 cm. 

 long ; pedicels ascending about (i mm. long ; bracts lanceolate- 

 cuspidate about 18 mm. long ; perianth campanulate, contracted 

 near the base, tube c. 2 cm. long, lobes oblong c. 1*3 cm. long, petals 

 very light yellow (?) with 3 longitudinal dark veins in the centre, 

 inner with brown tips ; filaments and style flattened, anthers 

 brown ; stamens and style finally exserted about 1 cm. 



Pella, Great Bushmanland, 16. I. *-M, Max Schlechter no. 133. 

 Described from 1 leaf and 2 inflorescences in' Herb. Albany 

 Museum. 



1 thought at fii St this might be ^./o/m/CT, Bak. which I only 

 know from the description, but the campanulate flowers separate 

 it from this as fi'om all other described species. The long bracts 

 also distinguish it from .-I. falcaia. 



02 (320). A.fcro.r, Mill.— This species is mentioned by Papjje 

 as occurring near Swellendani and grows in millions 

 in the Eastern Province of Cape Colony, going beyond 

 Cookhouse to the North and also as far as Qu^ens- 

 to^ji (see A. Galpini, Bak. oIa). To the East it goes 

 at least as fa;- as Na'.al. It flo^vers in midwinter and beautifies 

 the landscape at a tim ' when other flowers arc scarce. With this 

 wide distribution ii, is natural that wa s'.iould find numerous 

 slight variations from the type which sliow themselves chieliy in 

 the numbers anddistribution of the pri-cklesoii the leaves, and the 



