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Plateau of Table Mountain (about 1500 feet). Like G. asplenifolia, it is 

 extremely local, flowering usually in February, its ray-florets being 

 snow-white above, reddish below. 



Gerbera lanata, Dummer (comb. nov.). 



Syn. Gerbera tomentosa var. lanata, Harvey, I.e. 520. 



In many respects similar to G. tomentosa, but differing in the more 

 robust habit, densely white or pale brownish lanate petioles, lower 

 leaf-surfaces, scapes and involucres. Leaves oblong or sub-elHptic- 

 oblong, ij-3f inches long, J-i} inch broad, cordate at the base, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, glossy green and glabrous above at 

 maturity, densely lanate below, with the thickened midrib only 

 visible towards the leaf-base ; margin entire or obsoletely sinuate, 

 thickened and shghtly recurved. Scape sohtary or in threes, stout, 

 thickly lanate, up to 18 inches long, almost scaleless. Involucre 

 densely lanate. Flower-head averaging 2 inches across. Pappus 

 reddish towards the base. 



Hah. Coast Region. Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentot's Holland 

 Mountains, Bowie ! Zeyher, 3077 ! 



I can scarcely agree with Harvey respecting the varietal nature 

 of this plant with G. tomentosa ; it has several characters which render 

 it quite distinct from the latter and warrant it specific rank. The 

 leaves are exceedingly thick in texture, light glossy green, and more- 

 over glabrous at maturity above, densely and thickly white woolly 

 below. 



Gerbera Wrightii, Harvey in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 

 521 (1865) ; Bolus & Dod in Trans. Phil. Soc. South Africa, XIV. 

 iii. 289 (1903). 



Leaves in tufts of three to twelve, slender-petioled, ascending or laxly 

 spreading ; petiole i J-4 inches long, grooved vent rally, sparingly white- 

 felted or eventually glabrous ; blade oblong, oval, or almost quadrate 

 or triangular, rounded at the apex, cordate or rarely truncate at the 

 base, ij-3i inches long, ii-2i inches broad, leathery, dark glossy 

 green, glabrous and prominently veined above, snow-white-felted 

 beneath, with a broadish midrib ; margin repando-denticulate, the 

 teeth distant and obtuse. Scape solitary, or in twos or threes, stout, 

 up to I J foot long, covered sparingly with a deciduous white cobwebby 

 tomentum, eventually glabrescent ; bracts subulate, |— J inch long, 

 disposed at intervals along the scape. Involucral bracts 3-5-seriate, 

 sHghtly tomentose towards their bases, glabrous and ruby-red 

 towards their acuminate extremities. Flower-head large, i|- to over 

 3 inches in diameter, the ray-florets twenty-five to forty, white above, 

 reddish or purphsh below. Pappus rufous. 



Hah. Coast Region. Cape Div. ; Cape Peninsula, Admiral Sir 

 F. Grey ! on stony and grassy slopes of the Muizenberg, 250 feet, 

 Nov. 1886, MacOwan, 540 ! Slangkop, Sept. 26, 1897, Wolley Dod, 



