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inches across, the ray-florets concolorous, saffron-red on both sides. 

 Pappus snowy-white. 



Hah. Coast Region. Paarl Div. ; Paarl Berg, 1000-2000 feet, 

 Nov. -Dec, Drege ! Cape Div. ; Cape Peninsula, Cape Flats between 

 Cape Town and Simon's Bay, July 25, 18 15, Burchell, 8569 ! Caledon 

 Div. ; Nieuwe Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, March 10, 1815, 

 Burchell, 8034 ! Zwartberg, Pappe ! 



Var. siNUATA, Harvey, I.e. 521. 



Syn. Arnica sinuata, Thunberg Prod. 154 (1800) ; Fl. Cap. 669 



(1823). 



Gerbera sinuata, Sprengel Syst. iii. 576 (1826). 



Leaves thinly white-canescent below ; margin usually more 

 irregularly toothed and occasionally almost runcinate. Scape and 

 involucral scales usually thinly canescent, at times glabrous. 



Hab. Coast Region. Cape Div. ; Cape Peninsula, Forster ! Sieber ! 

 Harvey \ On mountains near Cape Town, Sept., Oct., Mund, 67! 

 Table Mountain, 500-600 feet, Dec, Pappe ! Ecklon ! 600 feet, Nov. 1907, 

 Diimmer, 896 ! Simon's Bay, and Table Mountain, Milne, 77 1 Dec. 1852, 

 MacGillivray, 538 ! Vlaggeberg, Sept. 21, 1896, Wolley Dod, 1644 ! 

 on grassy and stony slopes of the Muizenberg above False Bay, 

 800 feet, Nov. 1885, MacOwan, 524 ! Caledon Div. ; in a valley of 

 the Palmiet Rivier, 700 feet, Dec. 1879, Bolus, 2988 ! 



G. Burmanni was figured by the pre-Linnean botanist Burmann 

 in his work on Rare African Plants as early as 1738, but it is highly 

 doubtful whether the figure was based upon a living specimen. It 

 seemingly has never been introduced to horticulture despite its claim, 

 a claim which would be the more appreciated on seeing the plant in 

 its native habitat on the slopes of Table Mountain, where its saffron- 

 red flower-heads add colour to the mountain-sides towards Christmas- 

 time, the height of summer. The species is less common than its 

 variety, from which it is distinguished by the wholly glabrous leaves 

 and their less toothed and lacerated margins. 



Gerbera cordata, Lessing in Linnaea, v. 297 (1830) ; De Candolle 

 Prod. vii. 16 (1838) ; E. Meyer in Drege Zwei Pfl. Doc. 187 (1843) ; 

 Harvey, I.e. 521. 



Syn. Arnica cordata, Thunb. Prod. 154 (1800), non Walpers ; 

 Fl. Cap. 628 {1823) » Persoon Syn. 453, No. 7 non No. 18 

 (1807). 



A. piloselloides, Sprengel Syst. Veg. iii. 568 (1826), non 

 Cassini. 



Leaves in tufts of three to seven, ascending or stragghng ; petioles 

 very short and stout, or long and slender, densely white-tomentose, J-io 

 inches long, broadening and sheathing at the thickly tomentose and 

 cobwebby base ; blade oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, obtuse, rounded 

 and occasionally obsoletely apiculate, regularly or obhquely cordate 

 at the base, 2-6 inches long, ij-3i inches broad, thin in texture, dull 

 dark green above, with scattered appressed rufous hairs or eventually 



