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5-toothed, fertile, all with a few minute hairs in tube. Pappus 

 bristles many, serrate, 1-seriate. Achenes clothed with a few 

 minute bristles. 



Habitat : In damp places, sources of Tugela River, summit 

 of Mont-aux-sources, March, 1898 ; M. S. Evans, No. 758. 



We have no Natal species of Aster at all like this plant, nor 

 does the Colonial Herbarium contain any species with which it 

 might be confused. 



Felicia pinnatifida, Wood c% Evans, n. sp. 



Plant usually 2-3 inches high, sometimes reaching to 5-6 

 inches, hirsute. Stem very short, branching from base, 

 branches ascending, terete, purple. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 petiolate, exstipulate, 3-4 pinnatifid, lobes linear, oblong, vary- 

 ing from \ to 1 inch long, petiole dilated at base, semiamplexi- 

 caul, 2-12 lines long. Heads solitary, many flowered, radiate, 

 rays purple, disk yellow ; |-| inch diameter. Involucral 

 scales in 2—4 rows, linear-lanceolate, with membranous margins, 

 outer very short and narrow, subspinous on the back, dark 

 purple. Ray florets ligulate, obtuse, disk tubular, 5-toothed. 

 Pappus bristles many, serrate, uniseriate. Achenes compressed, 

 pubescent. 



Habitat : Sources of Tugela River, summit of Mount-aux- 

 Sources, 11,000 feet alt ; M. S. Evans, No. 739. 



Differs from all the South African species of Felicia known 

 to us by its deeply pinnatifid leaves. Always found in wet 

 gravelly places at or near heads of streamlets. 



Berkheya maritima, Wood & Evans, n. sp. 



Herbaceous, erect, branching in upper portion, 3-4 feet 

 high. Stem and branches striate, sparsely arachnoid, green. 

 Leaves alternate, sessile, decurrent in a short stem 

 wing, which is spinoso-ciliate, lamina oblong, irregularly 

 sinuate-lobed, the lobes tipped with a 1-2 lines 

 long spine, the rounded interspaces ciliate with smaller 

 spines which vary in length from J to 1 line long ; finely 

 arachnoid, and with jointed glandular hairs above, densely 

 albo-tomentose beneath, veins and veinlets conspicuous beneath, 

 less so above, 4-8 inches long, 1J— 3 inches wide, smaller up- 

 wards. Inflorescence corymbose, heads few, radiate, on long 

 pedicels, having depauperated leaves at the nodes, the upper- 

 most of which is less than 1 inch long, and lanceolate. Invo- 

 lucral scales squarrose, in 4 rows, concrete at base, armed with 

 a terminal spine, 1^ lines long, and 1-4 large, and many 

 smaller marginal ones on each side ; lanceolate, 4-6 lines long 

 including the spine ; densely albo-tomentose beneath, arachnoid 

 above. Ray florets 30 to 40, strap shaped, elongate, 3- veined, 



