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The whole plant, 8 to 12 feet high, with a diameter of 12 to 

 15 feet. Rosettes of leaves very numerous. Leaves 18 to 30 

 inches long ; l^ to 2^ inches wide ; \ to f inch thick at the 

 base ; prickles 1 line long, J to § inch apart. Pedicels 1 to 1\ 

 inch long. Racemes 5 to 10 inches long, spreading to 3 inches 

 wide, bracts \ inch long and wide. Perianth 1^ to If inch 

 long. 



Habitat: Natal; Midlands from 800 to 3,000 feet altitude, 

 usually, but not always on cliffs or rocky hills. 



Differs from any species of Aloe known to us, or described in 

 the Flora Gapensis, and well distinguished by its copiously 

 branching habit. It forms large clumps, and covers a large 

 extent of ground in comparison with its height. The rosettes 

 of leaves in moderate sized plants number from 200 to 300 

 or more, with a still larger number of small ones. 



Athanasia montana, Wood & Evans. 



Suffruticose, much branched. Stems erect, terete, clothed 

 with scars of fallen leaves, finely arachnoid, pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute, broad based, 

 margins deeply and sharply serrate ; thickly covered with 

 glands ; with axillary tufts of small, entire, linear leaves. In- 

 florescence a compound corymb, many headed, pedicels brac- 

 teate, bracts linear-lanceolate. Involucral scales minutely 

 ciliolate, sub- similar. Pappus of several short papillose scales. 

 Achenes ( unripe) striate, papillose. 



Plant, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves \ to f inch long, 2-4 lines 

 wide ; axillary entire ones, If to 2 lines long ; heads 4 lines 

 diameter. 



Habitat : Natal ; Drakensberg, Source of Bushman's River, 

 6-7000 feet altitude. June, 1896, M. S. Evans, No. 662. 



The nearest species to this known to us is A, leucoclada, Harv, 

 from which it is distinguishable by its more robust and branch- 

 ing habit, and also by its inflorescence being a compound 

 corymb of many heads and not " simple, dense, few headed." 



Geigeria rivularis, Wood & Evans. 



Suffruticose, erect or ascending, glabrous, clothed with leaves 

 from base to apex. Leaves linear, tapering to base and apex, 

 entire, flat, impress-dotted, glabrous, acute, midrib incon- 

 spicuous. Heads lateral and terminal, subsessile or shortly 

 pedunculate, subtended by many leaves. Involucral scales, 

 outer ones linear from a broadened base, with swollen midrib ; 

 inner ones lanceolate, coriaceous, shorter than the outer ones. 

 Pappus, outer of oblong, blunt, and inner of oblong bristle 

 pointed scales. Receptacle covered with stiff bristles. Achenes 

 very villous. 



