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Wahlenbergia depressa, Wood & Evans. 



A small plant, growing in dense tufts on moist rocks. Stems 

 very slender, branching, sub-rigid, glabrous, 2-8 inches long. 

 Leaves alternate, extipulate, sessile, linear, ciliate, glabrous, 

 2-4 lines long, § line wide. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 

 solitary, peduncles ^-1 inch long. Calyx 5 lobed, tube 

 obconical, 1 line long, lobes subulate, ciliate, twice or thrice longer 

 than the the tube, Corolla 5 lobed, lobes ovate, acute, spreading 

 from throat, equalling or a Jittle longer than the calyx lobes. 

 Stamens 5, filaments subulate, anthers oblong, Styles 3-lobed, 

 minutely pubescent in upper portion, Ovary half inferior, 

 3-celled, many ovuled. Capsule 3 valved, Seeds many, longitudi- 

 nally ribbed, brown. 



Habitat. Natal. Near Van Beenen's Pass, Drakensberg 

 Mts , 5-6,000 feet alt. March J. Medley Wood, No. 5,977. 



A small plant growing in dense tufts, quite unlike any other 

 species of the genus known to us. The small flowers are pale 

 blue. 



Stachys rivularis, Wood & Evans. 



Stem erect, branching from base, piloso-hispid, 1 foot or more 

 high. Leaves oblong-deltoid, cordate at base, obtuse at apex, 

 lower shortly petiolate, upper sessile and smaller, margin 

 crenate, finely ciliate, piloseon veins beneath, scabrous above, 

 5-10 lines long, 2-4 lines wide. Yerticillasters i.'-6 flowered. 

 Calyx 5 toothed, teeth acuminate, with a few pilose hairs on 

 the veins. Corolla twice as long as calyx. Flowers white, 

 with pink spot on lower segment. 



Habitat. Natal. Sandy soil on bank of Mooi River, 4,550 

 feet alt. December. J. Medley Wood, No. 6,252. 



This species seems to be near to S. nigricans, Bth , but 

 differs in size and shape of leaves, cutting and indument of 

 calyx, and relative size of corolla. It also, Mr. Schlechter 

 informs us, approaches near to S. simplex Schlechter, a species 

 we have not seen. 



Omithogalurn capillaris, Wood & Evans. 



Bulb ovoid, 3-5 lines in diameter, bearing two or more 

 scapes ; tunics papery, outer ones produced f-lf inches beyond 

 apex of bulb. Leaves 3-6, lower portion clasping the stem, 

 erect, capillary, glabrous, reaching to 3 inches in length, 

 Peduncles slender, 2-2 J inches long to base of lowest pedicel. 

 Baceme 2-3 inches long, laxly 8- 12 flowered, pedicels ascending, 

 lowest J-l inch long. Bracts lanceolate, or subulate from a 



