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Gasteria Pillansii, Kensit, n. sp. (Liliaceae-Asphodeloidege-Aloinese), 
§ vi., Grandiflorge. 
G. candicanti, Haiv., ajjinis sed foliis exacte distichis tttrinque convexi- 
usculis ecarinatis ohtusissimis distinguitur. 
Acaulis ; folia exacte disticha patenti-incurva lingugeformia obtusissima 
mucronata, marginibus tuberculatis, utrinque convexiuscula et copiose 
albido-punctata, punctis immersis, sordide viridia, 10-17 cm. longa, 
4-4*5 cm. lata, medio 1 cm. crassa ; pedunculus terminalis simplex ad 
50 cm. longus, racemo- ad 40 cm. longo ; bractese hyalinse lanceolatse 
acuminates 0-7-l'3 cm. longae ; pedicelli rubri, 0-7-l*3 cm. longse ; 
perianthium basi minime inflatum subcurvulum miniatum 8-4'5 cm. 
longum, 0-4-0-8 cm. diam., segmentis apice rotundatis 0-5-0"6 cm. longis ; 
stamina subaequalia vel insequalia inclusa ; ovarium cylindraceum 0*8 cm. 
longum, stylo stamina paullo excedente. 
Hab. : Cape Colony, Clanwilliam, fl. Nov., N. S. Pillans, 838 ! (in 
herb. Bolus). 
This has almost exactly the habit and leaves of G. ohtusifolia, Haw., 
but v^ith quite different flowers. The latter are like those of G. candicans. 
Haw., except that the perianth is more suddenly constricted below the 
ovary, not gradually attenuated, and it usually has no trace of green 
markings on it. 
Described from living specimens which flowered in Mr. N. S. Pillans' 
garden, Eosebank, near Cape Town. 
Peotea cryophila, Bolus. P. chionantha, Bolus, in Trans. S. Afr. 
Philos. Sac, v. 16 (1906), p. 399, 7iot of Engler and Gilg. m Warb. Kunene- 
Sambesi-Exped. (1903), j^- 225. 
Senecio transvaalensis. Bolus. S. thermarum, Bolus, in Trans. S. 
Afr. Philos. Soc, v. 16 (1906), p. 389, not of Philippi i7i Linncea, v. 33 
(1864-5), p. 153. 
Helichrysum lamprocephalum, Bolus. H. calocephalum, Schlechter, 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., v. 40 (1905), p. 95, not of Klattin Bull. Herb., Boiss., 
V. 4 (1896), p. 834. 
