302 XCH. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Sutera 
Leaves }-1 in. long, 4-2 in. broad, thin, broadly ovate, usually acute, 
truncate, or slightly cuneate at the base, coarsely dentate or sometimes 
bidentate, everywhere sparsely pilose; petiole 74-10 lin. long, pilose. 
Inflorescence a short terminal few-flowered raceme, covered with slender 
glandular hairs ; bracts similar in shape to the leaves but much smaller; 
pedicels slender, 6-10 lin. long. Calyx-segments 1} lin. long, } lin. 
broad, linear, acute, glandular-hairy. Corolla sparsely and minutely 
pilose; tube infundibuliform, 3-3} lin. long, pilose inside; limb 
spreading ; lobes 1 lin. long and broad, subequal, obovate. Stamens 
included. Capsule slightly longer than the calyx, elongate-oblong.— 
Cheenostoma hereroense, Engl. in Eng). Jahrb. xix. 150. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Hykamkab, in 
shady rocky places, 980 ft., Marloth, 1207. Usakos, on rocks, Lindner ! 
3. S. elegantissima, Skan. A slender erect glandular-pilose 
undershrub 1-2 ft. high or more. Branches terete, erect or spreading, 
elongated or sometimes only a few inches long. Leaves 4~8 lin. long, 
narrowly lanceolate, shortly petiolate, pinnatipartite or interruptedly 
pinnatifid ; segments entire, irregularly dentate or subpinnatifid, obtuse. 
Flowers axillary, solitary ; pedicels 24-6 lin. long, erect-spreading, rigid. 
Calyx 24-34 lin. long; segments linear, obtuse or subacute, densely 
glandular-pilose, especially on the margins. Corolla 4—5 lin. long, sub- 
infundibuliform, minutely glandular-puberulous on the lower part of the 
tube and on the back of the lobes, densely pilose near the top of the 
tube ; tube somewhat unequally inflated in the upper part; limb about 
2} lin. in diam. ; lobes subequal, rounded. Stamensand style included. 
Capsule 17-2} lin. long, narrowly ovoid, glabrous.—Lyperia elegan- 
tissima, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 192. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Ondonga, Okasima- 
Ka-Namutenya, and Omatope, Schinz, 43! 136! Oshiheke near Olukonda, Schinz. 
4, S. aurantiaca, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 757. A 
decumbent or ascending much branched densely glandular-pubescent 
perennial herb or undershrub ; branches 4-12 in. long, slender, terete, 
woody, or woody at the base and herbaceous above. Leaves 3-9 lin. 
long, 2—5 lin. broad, ovate to suborbicular, bipinnatisect, shortly 
petiolate or the upper subsessile; primary segments often stalked ; 
secondary segments entire, linear, subacute, or deeply pinnatifid. Flowers 
few, solitary, in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels 4—7 lin. Jong. 
Calyx 14-1} lin. long; segments spathulate-linear, obtuse or subacute, 
entire or with 1 or 2 teeth near the apex. Corolla 3-4 lin. long, red ; 
tube slightly inflated on the posticous side at the apex ; limb about 2 lin. 
in diam., somewhat oblique ; lobes about 3? lin. long and broad, subequal. 
Stamens included. Style 13 lin. long; stigma capitate. Capsule s 
long as or slightly shorter than the calyx, ovoid, minutely puberulous. 
—Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 292. Buchnera aurantiaca, Burchell, 
Trav. S. Afr. i, 888.  Lyperia multifida, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 
Mag. i. 380, and in DO. Prodr. x. 361 ; Schinz in Bull. Trav. Soe. Bot. 
Geneve, vi. 70. 
