brown, and that of A. crinifolia, Baker, to be reddish brown ; 

 both of these plants have flowered in the Botanic Garden at 

 Durban for several years past, and the band in both is certainly 

 green, only becoming brown in the dried state. 



Fadogia humilis, Wood & Evans, n. sp. 



A low undershrub not more than 6 inches high. Stems 

 many from a thick woody root, branching. Leaves crowded in 

 upper portion of stems and branches, elliptic-oblong, oblong, or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute at apex, narrowing to a short 

 petiole, entire, veins conspicuous on both sides, lamina glabrous, 

 with a few distinct hairs on midvein beneath, ciliate, 3 inches 

 long, ^-1 inch wide; stipules cuspidate from a broad amplexi- 

 caul base, including numerous white bristles. Flowers fascicled 

 in axils of the leaves ; peduncles J-f inch long. Calyx tur- 

 binate, 5-lobed, 2 lines long, lobes acuminate, equalling the 

 tube. Corolla 5-lobed, tube cylindrical, shorter than lobes, 

 with white hairs in throat, lobes narrow-oblong, twice longer 

 than tube, with white hairs at base. Anthers oblong, acute, 

 sessile a little below sinuses of corolla, exserted. Stigma 

 capitate, intruse at base, bifid at apex, exserted Ovary 2- 

 celled, cells 1-ovuled, ovules pendulous. Flowers yellow. 

 Drupe globose, crowned with remains of the calyx lobes, fleshy, 

 green, f inch diameter. 



Habitat : Near Van Reenen's Pass, Drakensberg Mountains, 

 5-6,000 feet alt ; J. Medley Wood, Nos. 4528, 6248. 



A low growing plant with thick, spreading woody roots, and 

 numerous short stems and branches which are clothed at nodes 

 with remains of stipules and the bristles with which they are 

 furnished. In appearance the plant is very like Vangueria 

 pygmaea, Schltr, and is about the same in size and habit of 

 growth. Differs from F. Zeyheri in size of leaves, shape of 

 stipules, and mode of inflorescence. Our plant is found amongst 

 grass fully exposed to the sun, while F. Zeyheri is said to be 

 found in stony places in woods. 



Aster uliginosus, Wood & Evans, n. sp. 



Stems often caespitose, herbacaous from a perennial root' 

 ascending, covered in the lower portion with flaccid leaves' 

 terete, with a few pilose hairs, 6-8 inches long, 1-headed. 

 Leaves alternate, crowded at lower part of stem, linear, entire, 

 margins reflexed, midvein prominent beneath, margins ciliate 

 with long white hairs ; ^-1 inch long. Heads radiate, rays 

 purple, disk yellow, f-J inch diameter. Involucral scales in 

 3-4 rows, free to base, lanceolate, the outer ones shorter, with 

 numerous white hairs springing from a swollen brown base, 

 ray florets,, 30-40, pistillate, ligulate ; disk florets numerous, 



