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it is as common in this neighbourhood as it is southwards, in many 
districts of the Cape, and, northwards, in Rhodesia. In the opened 
flower the lower lip of the sm is alway s found to be ice see 
so that it can never function as an shatuee platform, Exam 
in the bud, this lip is found to be whitish and delicate and folded 
this may not be the result of compression of the style from close 
packing in the , 
Othonna scapigera Harv. (751) is restricted to the outcrops of 
rock (quartz, etc., in this district). O. nat —— Sch. Bip. (750), 
with broader leaves and larger flowers, occurs upon the open veld, 
never among rocks. In both species there are eghs ray-florets and 
eight involucral leaves. The ine fruit is interesting; the involueral 
leaves, which, as noted in my last paper (see p. 54), partially invest 
the ripening nie Seni an ca eas and leave the mature 
achenes free for dispersal by the ‘ 
Gerbera piloselloides Cass. (394) is remarkably woolly in all its 
parts. The flowers close early in the afternoon, as do other species 
of this genus. The bilabiate ae florets have three little tufts of 
glandular papille upon the one lip, and one each upon the two 
segments of the other lip ; these tufts in the unopened floret inter- 
lock. The anthers are firmly coherent ; the pollen mt 
ooth 
oe 
or 
scanty. The \-grains, ee lenticular, an 
surface ; a lighter line, median and lo al, separates the two 
lateral . _ of the se ai of the fruit 
destined to 
furnished with hae: cies lower, seed- bearing portion of the achene 
has it in plenty. 
In Dinkonpanthion Barberia Harv. (749) the bape is a 
pepricky manent — After fertilization and during the maturati 
greatly diminished, ge i also to the sh serbcors 
of the upper portion of the peduncle, é 
fistulous for a short distance below the head. Upon seeing the 
heavily-drooping unripe head it is _— to believe it can again 
assume the upright —— Hae it 
ilepis leptophylia Hs (761) was scarce in September, 
but came out in ee dann: in 1 Oeiaiiee. It shows very clearly the 
Eac. in dise-Rloret 
proceeding outwards one finds that the correspondi “ 
