shorter afterwards, upper leaves quite sessile. Heads in loose 

 axillary and terminal corymbs, f-lj inch diameter. Involucral 

 scales squarrose, lanceolate, exterior ones longest ; spinoso- 

 acuminate, concrete at base, and with a few scattered marginal 

 spines, cobwebby beneath, on both sides densely covered with 

 minute glands, mid-vein conspicuous, lateral ones obscure 

 above. Exterior scales 4-7 lines long, including the 1 line 

 long spine. Receptacle deeply honeycombed, cells fringed with 

 long acuminate bristles. Achenes glabrous striate, minutely 

 pedicellate. Pappus cup shaped, concrete, in one series 

 lacerate at apex. Flowers yellow. 



Habitat. Natal. In a shady valley near De Beer's Pass, 

 Drakensberg Mts., 5-6,000 feet altitude. March. J. Medley 

 Wood, No. 6,978. 



Chaenostoma neglect um, Wood & Evans. 



An erect sparingly branched herb, having may stems from a 

 woody root, stems densely covered with minute yellowish 

 hairs. Leaves opposite, sessile, sub-arnplexicaul, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, distantly and unequally toothed, midvein prominent 

 beneath, lateral ones obscure, coriaceous, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, especially on veins beneath ; J-1J inches long, f--| inch 

 wide. Flower in axillary and terminal, simple or compound 

 racemes. Peduncles J-2J inches long. Bract 1 at base of 

 peduncle, subulate. Calyx gamosepalous, 5 parted, tube sub- 

 globose, limb 5 lobed, lobes linear, erect, slightly hispid, 2-3 

 lines long, 1J iine wide, Corolla salver-shaped, tube short, 

 limb 5 toothed, lobes equal, entire, half or more as long again 

 as calyx, pink, throat yellow, Stamens 4, in throat of corolla, in- 

 cluded, sub-didynamous. Anthers similar, 1-celled, reniform, 

 margin membranaceous. Ovary superior, 2-celled, ovoid, hispid. 

 Styles filiform, hispid. Stigma obtuse. Fruit capsular. Seed 

 numerous. 



Habitat. Natal. Near Charlestown, January, 5-6,000 feet 

 altitude. J. Medley Wood, No. 5,241. De Beer's Pass, 

 5-6,000 feet altitude, March, J. Medley Wood, No. 6,032. Near 

 Harrismith, Orange Free State, 5-6,000 feet altitude, March, 

 J. Medley Wood, No. 4,8 i 7. 



This plant is so very common in the localities above named, 

 that it seems strange that it has been for so long undescribed. 

 It appears to prefer the vicinity of cultivated ground, though 

 often found far from it. 



Moraea glauca, Wood & Evans. 



Corm globose, f-1 inch diameter, with several smallei ones 

 clustered round it. Tunics chartaceous, with prominent longi- 

 tudinal veins, connected by very oblique transverse ones, the 



