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Ranunculacee 1; Crucifere 1; Drosera 1; Caryophyllacee 1; 
Oxalis 1; Pelargonuwm 1; Rutacee 4; Phylica 1; Papilionacee 6; 
Cliffortia 4; Crassula 2; Bruniacee 2; Ficoidee 3; Umbellifere 1 ; 
Rubiacee 1; Composite 13; Campanulacee 2; Hrica 9; 
Scrofulariacee 3; Selago 1; Thymeleacee 4; Protea 2; Thesium 1; 
Inliacee 2; Iridacee 4; Restiacee ?; Graminacee ?; Cyperacee ?. 
From this list, although necessarily very incomplete as yet, it is 
evident that the general systematic composition of the flora is prac- 
tically the same as that of the lower slopes and valleys. It includes 
a few species known from the plains below, a number of others 
known from the foot of the mountains, and some, e.g., Hvica Sebana, 
Bryomorphe Zeyheri, and Anemone capensis, which are also met with 
at or below the altitude of Table Mountain, 3,549 feet. 
On the other hand, I must point out that in several cases the 
specimens from the high regions represent a distinct variety, which 
some botanists would probably distinguish as new species. A 
striking example of this kind is Anemone capensis. While in the 
ravines and on the slopes of the eastern side of Table Mountain this 
plant possesses mostly solitary stems one or two feet high, the 
variety on the Matroosberg* produces a large number of stemless 
shoots, growing in such close proximity to each other that the finely 
divided leaves form a flat cushion, a foot or more in diameter. From 
this compact mass of leaves rise the numerous peduncles 6 to 8 
inches high, bearing flowers as large as those of the tall plants of 
Table Mountain, but much more hairy and more intensely coloured 
than those, being bright rose inside as well as outside. This Alpine 
form is a beautiful example of the influence of the intense light, of 
the furious winds, the occasional extreme dryness of the atmosphere, 
and, I think, of the merely mechanical pressure of the snow which 
falls at these altitudes sometimes as late as December. It was a 
most interesting sight to find one day in October hundreds of 
anemones projecting through a firm layer of freshly fallen snow on 
a slope ot the Sneeuwkop, just as one can see the tiny Soldanella 
fringe the snowfields of the Alps. | 
- Other plants of typical cushion-like growth are Psammatropha 
quadrangularis [Plate XXIV., fig. 3], which resembles in its growth 
a fair-sized patch of Polytrichwm commune and Bryomorphe Zeyheri, 
of which the name indicates this habit, but which plant is also found 
at somewhat lower levels. Prismatocarpus subulatus, Crassula papil- 
* This is not merely the form mentioned in the ‘‘ Flora Capensis,” vol. i., p. 3, 
as var. tenwifolia, for it differs from the type not only in its leaves but also in the 
flowers, 
