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from below the middle into the petiole, i|-4i inches long, f-2 inches 

 broad, thinly coriaceous, dark olive green on the upper surface, the 

 latter with appressed subbristly hairs, or eventually quite glabrous, 

 closely white-felted beneath, the midrib and its five to eight pairs of 

 lateral nerves most conspicuous below; margin entire or subsinuate. 

 Scapes solitary, in pairs or threes, ebracteate, white-felted or eventually 

 glabrescent, 2J-13 inches long. Involucral bracts 2-3-seriate, acutely 

 acuminate, white tomentose or eventually glabrescent towards their 

 tips, J- J inch long. Flower-head |-if inch across, the ray-florets 

 ascending-spreading, narrow, often double the length of the longest 

 involucral bracts, sulphur-yellow, or cinnabar-red ? Achene puberulous. 

 Pappus rufous. 



Hah. Coast Region. Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 1032 ! 

 Ecklon and Zeyher ex Harvey. Albany Div. ; Albany, Zeyher, 849 ! 

 on grassy hills of the mountains at Grahamstown, 2000 feet, Nov., 

 MacOwan, 56 ! Alexandria Div. ; Zuurebergen at Strubels, Dorn Nek 

 and Botjesrivier, 2000-3000 feet, July, Dregel 



G. ambigua has a restricted geographical range, and in this respect, 

 as in its relationship, is nearest to the succeeding species. It was 

 discovered by the traveller Cooper * in i860, and by the Rev. Mr. 

 Baur,t a Moravian Missionary at Bazeia in Tembuland, between 

 elevations of 2000 to 2500 feet above sea level. 



Gerbera discolor, Sonder ex Harvey, I.e. 522. 



Leaves in tufts of three to twelve, laxly spreading or straggling ; 

 petiole |-5 inches long, white or eventually glabrous and brownish, 

 except for the sheathing base which is often invested with long 

 white silky hairs ; leaf-blade oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceo- 

 late, subacute, apiculate or rounded, tapering from about the middle 

 into the slender petiole, i|— 6 inches long, J-iJ inch broad, thin, 

 coriaceous, light dull green and glabrous above at maturity, white- 

 felted below the midrib and its four to eight pairs of lateral nerves most 

 prominent on lower surface ; margin entire or scarcely sinuate, occa- 

 sionally distant and obscurely denticulate. Scape invariably solitary, 

 ebracteate, 4-15 inches long, white-felted in the upper half, less so 

 below, glabrescent towards the base or with a few long straggly whitish 

 hairs. Involucral-bracts usually 2-seriate, white-felted, occasionally 

 glabrescent and purplish at their tips, acuminate, J-^^ inch long. 

 Flower-head f-if inch across, the ray-florets ascending or spreading, 

 narrow, scarcely double the length of the longer involucral bracts, 

 sulphur-yellow on both sides. Pappus reddish. 



Distribution. Kalahari Region. Transvaal. Magahesberg, Nov., 

 Zeyher and Burke, 1033 ! 66 ! Matebe Valley, Sept. 6, 1876, Holuh ! 

 Pretoria, Wonderboompoort, Rehmann, 4460 ! MacLea, 5774 ! 

 Skinner's Court, Pretoria, Aug. 19, 1903, Burtt-Davy, 584 ! 



A species usually growing on wet boggy clay ground, and, like the 



* No. 2551. 



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