252 NEW NATAL PLANTS. 
The three outer anthers are very much smaller than the inner ones, 
and sometimes have no pollen, never much. We notice that in the 
Flora Capensis the stripe on the perianth-segments of A. Nelsont 
N. r. is said to be greenish or reddish brown, and that of 
Ao crinifolia Baker to be reddish brown; both of these plants have 
flowered in the Natal Botanic Guntens for several years past, and 
ve oe in both is certainly green, only becoming brown in the 
ried stat 
23. Fado ogia humilis, sp. nov. Suffruticosa, non plus alta 
quam 6 poll.; caules multi, ex radice ligneo, crasso, ramosi; folia 
tantia ad bre petiolum, integ onspicuis utrinque 
lamina glab um paucis crinibus distantibus subt a 
media, ciliata, 1-3 poll. longa, 4- ta; stipule cuspidate eX 
fasciculati in axibus foliorum, poruneuue 4-3? poll. longis ; calyx 
clara aid 5-lobatus, 2 lin. longus, lo bi is eee tubam 
latis, ovula pendula; flores lutei; drupa petra coronata vestigiis 
calycis loborum, carnosa, viridis, 3 poll. dia 
Hab. Natal : near Van Boon nen’s ane a Mts., 
5-6000 ped. alt.; J. Medley Wood, Nos. 4528, 624 
A low-growing plant with thick, spreading, wo mods roots, and 
numerous short stems and branches which are clothed at nodes 
24. Aster se a sp.nov. Caules seepe cespitosi, herbacel, 
x radice perenne, ascendentes, tecti in parte inferiore ; foliis flac- 
cidi is, teretes, cum paucis —_ pilosis | crinibus ; 6-8 poll. longi ; 
monocephali ; folia alte erna, conferta in parte inferiore caulis, 
i mine 
infra, ae ciliato cum longis crinibus albis, 4-1 poll. — 
iam.; squame# involucrales 3-4-seriatee , libre basin, Mt Pe 
exteriores hheeviores; cum numerosis pilosis albis crinibus ex turgido 
fusco basi; flores — feminei, 30-40, ligulati, disci numerosi, 
5-dentati fertiles, omnes cum paucis minutis sparsis crinibus in 
pi 
setis minu 
a atal : n damp places, sources of Tugela river, sum- 
mit of Montane Genie faa, 1898; M. S. Evans, No. 758 
