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or 2-3-lobed, acute, margins entire. Heads solitary, radiate, 

 pedunculate, calycled with 2-3 linear glandular bracteoles. Invo- 

 lucral scales 10-15, glaudular hairy, with membranous margins, 

 8-4-nerved in central portion. Disc florets 40-50; ray florets 

 10-12; 4-lii)ed. Achenes glabrous. [P- 8.] 



Stems 5-10 inches high ; mature leaves f — §■ inch long, lobes 

 l|-2 lines long. Involucral scales 3-4 lines long. Ray florets 

 extending to 1^ inch diameter, yellow ; disc florets yellow. 



Hdhitat : Natal ; summit of Drakensberg, near Mont aux 

 Sources, 10-11,000 feet altitude. M. S. Evans, No. 752. 



This species is apparently closely allied to S. tanacetoides Sond., 

 but can at once be distinguished from that species by the peculiarity 

 of the fascicles of young leaves being snowy white with woolly 

 tomentose pubescence, while the adult leaves are dark green and 

 almost glabrous, and this may be as well seen in the dried speci- 

 mens as in the living ones ; and also by the glandular hairs on 

 the upper part of the stem, peduncle, and outside of involucral 

 scales. We have only observed this species on the summit of the 

 Drakensberg, while S. tanacetoides is plentiful at the foot of the 

 mountain. 



Athrixia arachnoidea Wood & Evans. Suffruticose. Stems 

 solitary, erect or ascending, occasionally branched, terete, leafy to 

 apex, arachnoid. Leaves alternate, erecto-patent, sessile, linear, 

 acute, margins reflexed, glabrous or thinly arachnoid above, very 

 densely so beneath. Peduncles 1 -headed, short, terminal or axillary 

 near apex of stem, swollen towards apex, clothed with scattered 

 subulate, arachnoid scales similar to those on the involucre. Heads 

 turbinate. Involucral scales pluriseriate, arachnoid, subulate, 

 squarrose. Ray florets 20-30, disc florets about 100. Pappus 

 uniseriate, without interposed scales, the bristles persistent, thinly 

 clothed with minute hairs. Ripe achenes not seen. 



An undershrub 6-12 inches high. Leaves in centre of stem 

 f-1 inch long, 1^-2 lines wide, gradually shorter to base and apex. 

 Peduncles 3-6 lines long. Heads 9 lines diameter. Involucral 

 scales 3-4 lines long. Ray florets 6-7 lines long, purple ; disc 

 florets 4 lines long, yellow. 



Habitat : Natal ; amongst grass, Polela, about 6000 feet altitude. 

 July, 1895. M. S. Evans, No. 513. 



Aloe natalensis Wood & Evans. Shrubby, copiously and re- 

 peatedly branching from the very base, each branchlet ending in a 

 dense rosette of leaves, occasionally producing adventitious roots 

 from the lower branches. Leaves 30-40 in a rosette, linear-lanceo- 

 late, falcate, acute, subglaucous, neither spotted nor lined, margined 

 with deltoid curved prickles. Peduncles usually simple, bracts 

 broadly obovate, veined. Racemes densely many-flowered; pedi- 

 cels erecto-patent. Perianth bright red, cylindrical. Stamens 

 finally slightly exserted. Stigma exserted. [p. 9.] 



The whole plant 8-12 feet high, with a diameter of 12-15 feet. 

 Rosettes of leaves very numerous. Leaves 18-30 inches long; 

 1^-2^ inches wide ; ^-| inch thick at the base ; prickles 1 line 



