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ON SOME FLOWEEING PLANTS FEOM THE NEIGHBOUE- 
HOOD OF POET ELIZABETH. 
By S. Schonland, Ph.D., F.E.S.S.Af. 
(With two figures in the text.) 
During the last few years Mr. 1. L. Drege, of Port EHzabeth, and 
Mrs. T. V. Paterson, of Eedhouse, near Port Ehzabeth, have suppHed me 
with a large number of plants from their neighbourhood. Many of these 
were of extreme interest. Amongst them were some previously known 
only from other districts of Cape Colony. Many were only known to me 
from Ecklon and Zeyher's collections, and there were also a fair number 
which seemed to me undescribed. Some of these are still under con- 
sideration. In the meantime I offer herewith the descriptions of a few 
species which I think are undoubtedly new, and I have added a description 
and figure of an extremely variable species of Polyxena (P. cnsifolia) 
which was first described and figured by Thunberg as Mauhlia eiisifolia, 
but placed by many subsequent botanists under P. pygmcea. 
Eriospermum dregei, Schonl., n. sp. 
Pig. 1. 
Tuber subovatum diam. c. 5 cm. x c. 2-5 cm., protuberantiis rotundatis 
munitum. Folium solitarium hysteranthum petiolatum, petiolo lanato 
c. 4 cm. longo, lamina late ovata apice subplicata c. 2 cm. longa c. 1'5 cm. 
lata supra minutissime puberula vel glabra subtus lanata, basi processu 
alcicorni erecto lanato c. 4 cm. longo munita, processus subdichotome 
ramosus ramis primariis 4-6 subverticillatis reliquis furcato-multifidis, 
terminalibus oblanceolatis. Pedunculus erectus simplex filiformis glaber 
e basi vacue bracteatus incl. racemo c. 7*5 cm. altus, racemo denso 
c, 1*5 cm. longo 10-15-floro, bracteis minutis ovato-acutis c. 2 mm. longis 
albidis rubro-carinatis, pedicellis inferioribus c. 4 mm. longis superioribus 
