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inches long, sparingly white pilose, and stipitately glandular; leaf- 

 blade elliptic oblong, or oblong, rounded at the apex, rounded or 

 slightly narrowing at the base, 2-4 inches long, half as broad, mem- 

 branous, light green and slightly scabrid to the touch at maturity, 

 sparingly pilose below ; nerves five to seven pairs ; margin subentire or 

 boldly sinuate, ciliolate. Scapes solitary or in pairs, 3^-9 inches long, 

 ebracteate, pilose, stipitately glandular, especially towards the densely 

 pubescent summit. Involucral bracts 2-seriate, acuminate, J-J inch 

 long, externally sparingly pubescent. Flower-head if inch across, 

 its ray-florets whitish according to Junod, and about twice as long as 

 the involucre-bracts. Achenes sparingly puberulous ; pappus dark 

 violet-purple. 



Despite the superficial resemblance of this novelty to forms of 

 G. viridifolia, the gland-tipped hairs which invest its petioles and 

 scapes distinguish it from any of its allies. M. Junod is respon- 

 sible for its discovery on the hills near Shilouvane in the Northern 

 Transvaal, in August 1899. 



Gerbera viridifolia, C. H. Schultz in Flora, xxvii. (1844), 

 780 ; Harvey, I.e. 523, in part ; Lynch in The Garden, xlix. (1896), 

 i. 162 ; Nicholson Gard. Diet. v. 389. 



Syn. Gerbera viridiflora, Walpers Rep. vi. 315 (1846). 



G. nivea, Grignan in Rev. Hort. (1908), 560, not of other 

 authors. 



Lasiopus viridifolius, and vars. hirsutus and medius, De 

 Candolle, I.e. 19. 



L, coriaceus, De Candolle, I.e. 19. 



Lasiopus viridiflora, De Candolle ex Walpers, I.e. 

 Root-crown copiously white-silky. Leaves in tufts of two to 

 six, laxly spreading, petioles ^2| inches long, thinly white-pilose ; 

 leaf -blade elliptic or elliptic-oblong, subacute or obtuse (rarely rounded), 

 tapering abruptly into the petiole, 1-3I inches long, J-iJ inch broad, 

 thinly coriaceous, equally light green and thinly canescent and pilose 

 on both sides, eventually thinly pilose or entirely glabrous above, 

 the midrib (occasionally glabrescent also below), its four to six pairs of 

 lateral veins most obvious on the lower leaf-surface ; margin shortly 

 ciliate or glabrous, entire or subsinuate. Scape solitary or in pairs, 

 3-12 inches long, ebracteate, thinly white-felted and straggly haired, 

 or eventually glabrescent or glabrous towards the base. Involucral 

 bracts 2-3-seriate, J- J inch long, hairy or glabrescent. Flower- 

 heads inch across, the ray-florets narrow, usually about twice 

 as long as the involucral bracts, either yellow on both sides or white 

 above, pale flesh, red or purple beneath. Pappus dirty white or 

 reddish. 



Distribution. Coast Region. Albany Div, ; in grassy and stony 

 places near Grahamstown, MacOwan ! Queenstown Div., Bramneck, 

 3500 feet, Jan., Baur ! British Kaffraria (i860). Cooper, 173 ! Mac- 

 Owan, 56 ! Tembuland ; Mount Bazeia, Baur, 741 ! 2500 feet, Oct., 



