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(including the petiole), J-J inch broad, quite entire, or toothed as in 

 the species. 



Distribution. Coast Region : Swellendam, Voorman's Bosch, 

 Zeyher, 3078, partly ! Riversdale Div. : among bushes, mountain- 

 slopes near Garcia's Pass, Sept. 1908, Phillips, 406 ! (the latter 

 specimen is immature and hence its identification is subject to 

 criticism). Knysna Div. : Knysna, Tyson, 2988, e% Phillips. 



The scaly scapes of G. jerruginea proclaim the affinity of this 

 species to the preceding, but their broader dentate leaves, and one, 

 seriate involucral bracts, render the plant easy of identification. Its 

 flower-heads are also smaller and generally average 2 inches across, 

 their ray-florets being pure white above and purple without. The 

 species has a more eastern distribution than G. asplenijolia, and ex- 

 tends from the Riversdale District along the coast eastwards as far 

 as Uniondale, where at the latter place it was detected near the Keur- 

 booms River by the traveller Burchell. The variety differs in the 

 narrower less-toothed leaves, and has a more circumscribed area of 

 distribution. 



Gerbera tomentosa, De Candolle Prod. vii. 16 (1838) ; E. 

 Meyer, I.e. 187 ; Harvey, I.e. 520. 



Syn. Gerbera microcephala, Lessing in Linnaea, v. 293 (1830). 

 G. macrocephala, Lessing ex De Candolle, I.e. 

 G. tomentosa var. elliptica, De Candolle, I.e. 

 G. hirsuta, Sprengel ex De Candolle, I.e., non Lessing. 



Leaves in tufts of three to seven, erect, ascending or arched-spread- 

 ing, borne on stoutish flattened or almost terete thickly white-tomentose 

 petioles, 1-3 inches long, leaf-blade elHptic, rounded or obtuse at apex, 

 cordate or obliquely cordate at the base, ii-2j inches long, f-ij inch 

 broad, thickly coriaceous, eventually glossy green and glabrous 

 above, closely and densely yellowish-felted and with the midrib 

 raised below ; margin recurved, wavy, entire or obsoletely toothed 

 and sinuate, the teeth obtuse and often pointing downwards. Scapes 

 solitary, or two to three to a plant, slender, terete, thinly white-felted, 

 nude, or with a few minute bracts. Involucral bracts 2-3-seriate, 

 acuminate, brownish or blackish tipped, velvety dorsaUy. Flower- 

 heads ii-2|- inches across, the ray-florets ten to thirty-five, white 

 above, reddish-purple below, toothed as in the preceding species. 

 Pappus whitish or pale reddish. 



Distribution. Coast Region. Stellenbosch Div. : Hottentot's 

 Holland Mountains, Ecklon and Zeyher ex Sonder, I.e. Caledon Div. : 

 Caledon, Ecklon and Zeyher ex Sonder, I.e. Tops of the mountains of 

 Baviaan's Kloof, near Genadendal, Feb. 16, 1815, Burchell, 7687 ! 

 Uniondale Div. : Langekloof, Drege. Uitenhage Div. : Vanstadensberg, 

 1000 feet, Jan. MacOwan, 1061 ! 

 Var. USTULATA, De Candolle, I.e. 



Leaves oblong, cordate at the base, obtuse at the apex, 1-3J inches 



