402 APPENDIX. 



27. Artemisia Afra, Jacq. 

 Crocodile River. 



28. Gerbera Natalensis, Schultz Bip. 

 Crocodile River. 



This considerably extends the known range of the species. The 

 specimens at Kew, collected by Krauss, Sutherland, and Wood, are all 

 from Natal, while the above-named locality is much farther north, 

 in the Transvaal. 



Order CAMPANULACE.E. 



29. Lobelia decipiens, Sond. 

 Matabele Land. 



This plant does not appear to have been previously collected 

 north of the Tropic of Capricorn, though it has since been obtained 

 in Matabele Land by the Rev. W. Elliott. The known range of the 

 species is thus materially extended. 



30. Wahlenbergia Oatesii, n. sp. 



Perennial, glabrous throughout. Stem erect, branched ; leaves 

 sessile, somewhat amplexicaul, alternate, linear, sub -acute, margin 

 thickened, undulate below and sometimes obscurely toothed, 5-8 

 lines long. Peduncles somewhat branched, few -flowered. Calyx 

 hemispherical -obconical, nearly equalling the subulate lobes, which 

 are 1 line long, and ciliolate below. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-fid, 

 twice as long as calyx. Stigmas 3, oblong, pilose-pubescent outside. 

 Capsule 3-celled, ellipsoidal, 2 lines long. 



Matabele Land. 



Closely allied to the South African W. Caledonica, Sond., but 

 differing in its glabrous stems and smaller flowers. It would also 

 appear to be generally a somewhat dwarfer plant. In the former 

 edition of this work it is called " W. Banksiana, A. de Cand.," which, 

 however, is a much more slender plant, and an annual. 



Order ERICACEAE. 



31. Erica Oatesii, n. sp. (Plate XI.) 



A densely branched perennial, with glandulose-hispid or hispidu- 

 lous branches. Leaves in verticels of three or four each, spreading 

 and somewhat reflexed, narrowly linear, subacute, glandulose-hispidu- 

 lous, 3-4 lines long, margins revolute. Flowers in small, few-flowered 

 umbels. Bracts linear, £ inch long, glandulose-hispidulous, situated 

 about the middle of the pedicel, which is \ inch long. Sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent and glandulose-ciliate, 2-2j lines long. 

 Corolla ellipsoid -urceolate, puberulous, 5 lines long, with minute, 

 broadly-rounded lobes. Anthers included, lateral, biaristate at base. 

 Ovary villose, with almost white hairs. 



