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Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, September, 1898. 



This plant is a most conspicuous one in the summer months, its large flower 

 heads with white rays and dark purple disk mark it as a plant well worthy of 

 cultivation. 



The genus Callilepis contains 5 species, all of which are South African, the 

 one above described being the only one found in Natal, though C. leptophylla, Harv 

 which is nearly related to it has been found in Transvaal, and probably exists in 

 the upper parts of Natal, the difference between the two species being chiefly in 

 size of flower heads, and size, shape and venation of leaves. The natives know the 

 plant as " im-Pila " and they use the roots ground to a paste for killing maggots 

 in cattle, and the leaves they occasionally mix with other ingredients to form their 

 scent balls. 



Fig. 1, Flowering stems a little reduced ; 2, Ray floret ; 3, style of same ; 4, 

 Disk floret ; 5, Style of same ; 6, Disk floret showing palea ; all enlarged. 



PLATE 63. 



CRASSTJLA NATALENSIS, Schonland. 

 Natural Order, CRASSULACEAE. 



Sub-herbaceous, erect, branched. Stems 18-24 inches in height, terete, branched 

 in upper portion. Leaves opposite, sessile, sub-connate; lower ones ovate; 1^-2 inches 

 long, ^-f inch wide, upper ones ovato-lanceolate, gradually becoming smaller up- 

 wards ; all entire, glabrous, cartilagineo-ciliate. Inflorescence a loosely many 

 flowered corymb, the flowers small, varying in colour from white to pink. Calyx 

 5 parted nearly to base, lobes narrow oblong, acute, half as long as corolla. 

 Corolla gamopetalous, 5 lobed, lobes narrow oblong, or obovate, obtuse, 1^-2 lines 

 long. Stamens 10, a little shorter than corolla lobes ; anthers 2 celled. Carpels 5, 

 lanceolate, many seeded ; styles short, stigmas truncate ; sqamse cuneate, yellow,, 

 minute. 



Habitat : NATAL : Amawaqua Mountain at 6-7,000 feet above sea level Wood 

 4637; April, Flowers pink; Near Greytown, 4-5,000 feet above sea level, flowers 

 white; Near Karkloof, Wood 4484, April; Illovo, Wood 1876, April; Fort Notting- 

 ham, J. Wylie (Wood 6765), March. 



Drawn and described from the specimens gathered near Fort Nottingham by 

 J. Wylie. 



This is a species described by Dr. Schonland, of Grahamstown, in Bulletin de 

 1'Herbier Boissier, Vol. 5, No. 10, 1897, from specimens sent from the Colonial 

 Herbarium. 



It is said by the author of the species to come near to C. vaginata, E. & Z., 

 but in outward appearance it is very different from the common forms of that 

 plant ; the flowers appear to vary in colour from pink to almost white. 



Fig. 1, Flowering stem about natural size ; 2, Flower ; 3, Corolla opened, show- 

 ing stamens ; 4, Stamen ; 5, Carpels, and squamae ; all enlarged. 



PLATE 64. 



OTHONNA NATAT/ENSIS, Sch. Bip. 

 Natural Order, COMPOSITAE. 



Herbaceous, glabrous and glaucous. Root tuberous, prolonged into a half 



