i 



Stems 5 to 10 inches high ; mature leaves § to § inch long, 

 lobes 1§ to 2 lines long. Involucral scales 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Ray florets extending to 1J inch diameter, yellow ; disk florets 

 yellow. 



Habitat : Natal ; summit of Drakensberg, near Mont aux 

 Sources, 10 to 11,000 feet altitude, M. S. Evans, No. 752. 



This species is apparently closely allied to S. tanacetoides, 

 Sond, but can at once be distinguished from that species by the 

 peculiarity of the fascicles of young leaves being snowy white 

 with woolly tomentose pubescence, while the adult leaves are dark 

 green and almost glabrous, and this may be as well seen in the 

 dried specimens as in the living ones ; and also by the glan- 

 dular hairs on the upper part of the stem, peduncle, and out- 

 side of involucral scales. We have only observed this species 

 on the summit of the Drakensberg, while 8. tanacetoides is 

 plentiful at the foot of the mountain. 



Athrixia arachnoidea, Wood & Evans. 



Suffruticose, Stems solitary, erect or ascending, occasionally 

 branched, terete, leafy to apex, arachnoid. Leaves alternate, 

 erecto-patent, sessile, linear, acute, margins reflexed, glabrous 

 or thinly arachnoid above, very densely so beneath. Peduncles 

 1 -headed, short, terminal or axillary near apex of stem, swollen 

 towards apex, clothed with scattered subulate, arachnoid scales 

 similar to those on the involucre. Heads turbinate. Involucral 

 scales pluriseriate, arachnoid, subulate, squarrose. Ray florets 

 20 to 30, disk florets about 1 0. Pappus uniseriate, without 

 interposed scales, the bristles persistent, thinly clothed with 

 minute hairs. Ripe achenes not seen. 



An undershrub 6-12 inches high. Leaves in centre of stem 

 f-l inch long, J ~-2 lines wide, gradually shorter to base and 

 apex. Peduncles 3-6 lines long. Heads 9 lines diameter. In- 

 volucral scales 3-4 lines long. Ray florets 6-7 lines long, purple ; 

 disk florets 4 lines long, yellow. 



Habitat : Natal ; amongst grass, Polela, about 6,000 feet 

 altitude. July, 1895. M. S. Evans, No. 513. 



Aloe natalensls, Wood & Evans. 



Shrubby, copiously and repeatedly branching from the very 

 base, each branchlet ending in a dense rosette of leaves, occa- 

 sionally producing adventitious roots from the lower branches. 

 Leaves 30 to 40 in a rosette, linear lanceolate, falcate, acute, 

 sub-glaucous, neither spotted nor lined, margined with deltoid 

 curved pricles. Peduncles usually simple, bracts broadly 

 obovate, veined. Racemes densely many flowered ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent. Perianth bright red, cylindrical. Stamens 

 finally slightly exserted. Stigma exserted. 



