306 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ Sutera. 
dentate, usually acute, cuneate at the base, membranous, decreasing in 
size upwards; petioles 2-6 lin. long. Flowers axillary, solitary, race- 
mosely scattered from near the base to the apex of the branches; 
pedicels 2-1} in. long, erect-spreading, usually slightly curved, rather 
stout. Calyx from 24 lin. long in flower to 44 lin. long in fruit; seg- 
ments narrowly linear, unequal, subacute. Corolla 8-9 lin. long, 
minutely pubescent ; tube narrow, slightly incurved and inflated near 
the top; limb 4—5 lin. in diameter ; lobes 14 lin. long, 1} lin. broad. 
Stamens and style included. Capsule 3-4 lin. long, ovoid-oblong, 
minutely grandular-pubescent.—Evrinus tomentosus, Thunb. Prodr. 103 
and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 476, not of Mill. Zyperia glutinosa, Benth. in 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 378, and in DC. Prodr. x. 359 ; Engl. in Engl. 
Jahrb. x. 254. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Otyimbingue, 
2950 ft., Marloth, 1407. 
Also in South Africa. 
13. S. heucherifolia, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 757. A 
divaricately much branched apparently annual herb, 4-12 in. high, 
villous with grey glandular hairs; branches woody, straight, almost 
wngular. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, 
truncate at the base, incised-dentate, the lower 7-12 lin. long and 
broad, the upper much smaller; teeth shortly crenate-dentate ; petiole 
51-7 lin. lorg. Flowers axillary ; pedicels 6—12 lin. long, very slender. 
Calyx-segments 2-24 lin. long, ? lin. broad above the middle, linear- 
spathulate, acute, densely villous or pubescent, unequal. Corolla white, 
yellowish on the tube and at the throat; tube 7-8 lin. long; limb 
somewhat unequal; lobes 14-2 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad. Capsule 
2-24 lin. long, narrowly ovoid.—Chenostoma heucherifolium, Diels 
Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 475. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; banks of the River Bero, near Cavalheiros, Wel- 
witsch, 5805 ! 
14. S. amplexicaulis, Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii, 287. AD 
erect viscid pubescent or villous sparingly branched perennial, woody at 
least at the base; stems up to 1 ft. long, procumbent or dependent. 
Leaves sessile, crowded, often overlapping, 3-8 lin. long, 2—5 lin. broad, 
semi-amplexicaul or broad at the base, ovate or elliptic, usually serrate 
near the apex, somewhat acute, the lower opposite, the upper alternate. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, slightly longer than the leaves, very shortly 
stalked, forming a spike-like inflorescence 2-6 in. long. Calyx 3-4 lin. 
long; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, somewhat unequal. Corolla 
about 6 lin. long, glabrous outside ; tube 1 lin. broad at the base, slightly 
contracted about the middle, somewhat incurved and dilated on the 
posticous side at the throat; limb 24 lin. broad; lobes subequal, elliptic 
or obovate, about 1 lin. long. Stamens and style included. Capsule 
3-34 lin. long, oblong-ovoid, slightly contracted near the apex, glabrous. 
Seeds subglobose, minutely rugose.—Lyperia amplexicaulis, Benth. 10 
