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Natal, at elevations of about 4000 feet, in April 1891, and according 

 to him the ray-florets are white above and coppery beneath. 



G. Px^RVA, A^. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin (1895), 27 ; Oliver in 

 Hooker's Icones Plantarum, t. 2376 (1895). 



Leaves small, in tufts of five to twelve, borne on very slender 

 yellowish or brownish sparingly white-tomentellous or glabrous petioles 

 |-if inch long ; leaf-blade broadly ovate, obtusely or acutely apiculate, 

 subcordate at the base, J-f inch long, J-i inch broad, thinly leathery, 

 pale green, glabrous and apparently nerveless above, thinly white- 

 felted and one-nerved beneath ; margin coarsely dentate, the 

 teeth triangular, subacute or obtuse. Scape sohtary, in pairs or 

 threes, small and slender, ebracteate, except towards the apex, 2-4 

 inches long, white-tomentose towards the apex, glabrescent or glabrous 

 towards the base. Involucral bracts 2-4-seriate, acutely acuminate, 

 J-J inch long, glabrous, greenish or purpHsh. Flower-head J-f inch 

 across. Ray-florets eighteen to twenty-two, about double the length of 

 the bracts, white above, rosy below. Pappus white. 



The smallest of the group, but withal a charming httle plant, 

 with flower-heads not unhke a Daisy. It was collected by Mr. Maurice 

 Evans (No. 57) in Natal, on the Drakensberg Range, in damp places 

 at elevations of 6000-7000 feet, not far from the Bushmans River, 

 but is evidently a rare plant, as it has not been rediscovered since 

 July 1894. 



Gerbera aurantiaca, C. H. SchuUz in Flora, xxvii. (1844), 7^1; 

 Walpers Rep. vi. 317 (1846) ; Harvey, I.e. 523 ; Wood Illustr. Natal 

 Plants, iv. t. 371 (1905) ; N. E. Brown in Bot. Mag. t. 8079 (1906) ; 

 Hariot in Le Jar din (1907), 250. 



Syn. Gerbera Elsae, W. H. in Gardeners' Chronicle, xxxviii. 5 

 (1905). 



Crown of root-stock densely white sericeous- villous. Leaves in tufts 

 of two to six, erect or ascending, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at the apex, tapering from about the middle into 

 the short broad sheathing base, 4-1 1 inches long (inclitsive of the 

 petiole), |-2 inches broad, leathery, hght green on both surfaces, 

 more or less minutely pubescent above, white-cobwebby beneath, 

 especially in the region of the midrib, but eventually almost glabrous ; 

 lateral nerves twelve to fifteen- pairs, and with their reticulations most 

 conspicuous on the lower surface ; margin entire, or obscurely denti- 

 culate, obsoletely wavy and subsinuate, cobwebby or glabrous. Scape 

 invariably sohtary, 4-16 inches long, ebracteate, white-felted, gla- 

 brescent or glabrous towards the base. Involucral scales 2-4-seriate, 

 acutely acuminate, J-f inch long, white-felted. Flower-head i|-3 

 inches across, the ray-florets often more than twice as long as the 

 involucral bracts, dark blood-red above, yellowish or brownish under- 

 neath ; disc-florets yellowish or brownish. Pappus violet-purple 

 above. 



