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Gerbera Kraussii, C. H. Schultz, I.e. 781 ; Walpers Rep. vi. 316 

 (1846) ; Harvey, I.e. 523 ; Wood Illustr. Natal Plants, i. 46, t. 56 

 (1899). 



Syn. G. Kraussii var. Kraussii, C. H. Schultz, I.e. ; Harvey, I.e. 



Leaves in tufts of two to five, elliptic or narrowly elliptie-oblong, sub- 

 acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, tapering gradually from below 

 the middle into ^-2j inches long hairy petioles, 2-6 inches long, 

 |-2 inches broad, more or less coriaceous, olive green and densely 

 setose velvety, or eventually glabrescent and scabrid above, white- or 

 cream-felted and with the midrib and its six to nine pairs of lateral veins 

 conspicuous below ; margin occasionally wavy, entire, or distantly 

 and obsoletely denticulate, or almost sinuate. Scapes solitary or in 

 pairs, 4-14 inches long, ebracteate, covered with a white deciduous 

 felt, or with spreading hairs towards their bases. Involucral scales 

 2-3-seriate, J-| inch long, white-tomentose. Flower-head 1-2 

 inches across. Ray-florets ascending-spreading or spreading, about 

 double the length of the involucral bracts, white or cream-coloured 

 above, pink or coppery beneath ; disc-florets purplish. Pappus 

 violet-purple, occasionally rufous. 



Distribution. Eastern Region. Kentani ; Columba Mission, 

 1000 feet, Nov. 30, 1906, Miss Alice Pegler, 1400 ! Natal ; Port Natal 

 (1840), Krauss, 402 ! Sanderson, 259! Inanda, Wood ! below the Berg, 

 Umzeila, Mudd ! dry fields, Tolivet, 2500 feet, Oct. 15, 1909, Rudatis, 

 752 ! Kalahari Region. Transvaal ; damp grassy ravine, summit 

 of Saddleback Mountain, Barberton, 4500-5000 feet, Sept. 1889, 

 Galpin, 540 ! 541 ! stony mountain-slopes near Lydenburg, Sept. 1885, 

 Wilms, 770 ! 



Var. GuEiNZii, Harvey, I.e. 



Syn. G. nervosa, Sonder in Linnaea, xxiii. 70 (1850). 



Leaves invariably rounded, or cordate at the base ; white-felted 

 beneath. Pappus violet-purple or dirty white. 



Distribution. Eastern Region. Natal ; Port Natal (1851), Plant, 

 37 ! Sanderson, 53 ! Gerrard, 174 ! Dry meadows, Ifafa, 1900 feet, 

 March 4, 1908, Rudatis, 293 ! at Pietermaritzburg, Oct. 1883, Wilms, 

 2079 ! 



Var. sinuata, DUmmer.'^ 



Leaves large, coarsely dentate-sinuate, obliquely rounded at the 

 base, subacute or rounded at the apices, 4J-6 inches long, 2 J-3i inches 

 broad, velvety setose or eventually scabrid above, white-felted below ; 

 petioles 1J-4 inches long, white felted. Scapes slender, 12-16 inches 

 long, white-felted. Ray-florets yellow. Pappus rufous. 



Distribution. Natal, among grass, Sinkwasi, April 2 (1888), 

 Wood, 4010 ! 



G. Kraussii abounds on grassy land all over the Natal area and 

 extends inland into the Transvaal, where Mr. E. E. Galpin discovered 

 it on the Saddleback Mountain. The plant is known to the natives 



* Gerbera Kraussii var. sinuata Diimmer. Var. nov. A typo foliis sinuatis 

 difiert. 



