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antheris 0-8 cm. longis; styli rami 0-3 cm. longi, ramulis vix 0-3 cm. 
longis; capsula non visa. 
Transvaal: Lydenburg Div., Paarde-Platz, near Lydenburg, fl. March 
1886, F. Wilms, 1440. 
Nearest W. densiflora, Baker, but differs: 1, spike much less densely 
flowered; 2, bracts less rigid in texture and usually longer; 3, perianth 
longer; 4, style-branches and branchlets shorter. 
W. transvaalensis, Baker, var. drakensbergensis, L. Bolus, nov. var. (Neuberia). 
Planta 57 — 87 cm. alta; cormus et vaginae basales deficientes; folia 
radicalia visa 2, nervo medio marginibusque conspicue incrassatis, nervis 
intermediis sat conspicuis, cum vagina 16 — 30 cm. longa, 54 — 68 cm. 
longa, 1-4 — 2 cm. lata, caulina 5 — 6, infimum 49 — 69 cm. longum, ad 
2-4 cm. latum, supremum subdistans setaceo-acuminatum, 2-5 — 3-3 cm. 
longum; spica simplex, sublaxe 17 — 23-fl., floribus erecto-patentibus ; 
bracteae setaceo-acuminatae vel obtusae mucronatae, dimidio superiore 
vel ultra membranaceo, 1-8 — 1 cm. longae, bracteolis primum fere ad 
apicem coalitis, bracteis brevioribus vel superioribus fere aequilongis; 
perianthium roseum ca. 3 cm. longum, tubo infundibuliformi, apice ad 
7 mm. diam., segmentis oblongis acutis, conspicue apiculatis, tubo 
aequilongis vel parum longioribus, exterioribus 4 — 5 mm., interioribus ad 
7 mm., latis; stamina arcuata, ad dimidium segmentorum attingentia; 
stylus stamina superans, ramulis vix 2 mm. longis. 
Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Lydenburg Div., in a valley on the 
Drakensbergen, near Pilgrim’s Rest, fl. March 1874, W. Roe (Bolus 
Herbarium, No. 2655); Pilgrim’s Rest, fl. April 1916, F. A. Rogers, 18716. 
The plant is taller, and the flowers and bracts smaller, than in the type. 
Specimens (of uncertain origin) which flowered at Kirstenbosch in 
April — May 1917, and of which incomplete material is in the Bolus 
Herbarium; and an incomplete plant in the Kew Herbarium, collected 
by Henry Hutton on the Katberg, appear to be the variety, drakensber- 
gensis. Both have a branched inflorescence and look more distinct from 
the type of W. transvaalensis than the Drakensberg specimens. 
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