Sutera. | XCII, SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 309 
According to Baines this is the Geel Bloemijies of South Tropical Africa. 
“Flowers in reality white, but used by the Boers for dyeing linen and staining 
wood yellow.” 
20, S. atropurpurea, /Liern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 306. An 
erect or suberect slender heath-like much-branched undershrub, 1-3 ft. 
bigh, glandular-puberulous on nearly all its parts but especially on the 
branches; stem and branches wiry, terete. Leaves very small in 
alternate or sometimes opposite fascicles, linear-oblong or linear-cuneate, 
}-2 lin. long, 4-2 lin. broad, obtuse, gradually narrowed to the sessile 
base, entire, fleshy or coriaceous, glandular-puberulous or glabrous. 
Flowers in loose terminal racemes. Peduncles 3-1 in. long, minutely 
glandular-puberulous. Calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, 14-2 lin. long, 
rather thick. Corolla saffron, chocolate or reddish-brown, sparingly 
glandular outside ; tube 8-12 lin. long, scarcely more than } lin. broad 
below, slightly incurved and about 1 lin. broad at the apex; limb 
somewhat 2-lipped ; lobes oblong or obovate, 2-3 lin. long, } lin. broad, 
obtuse. Stamens included. Capsule narrowly ovoid, 3-6 lin. long, 14 
lin. broad, glandular-pulverulent or glabrous.—Lyperia atropurpurea, 
Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 380; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 
1900, 467. ZL. crocea, Ecklon ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 361. Chenos- 
toma croceum, Wettst. ex Diels in Engl. Jahrb, xxiii. 491. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Matabeleland; Buluwayo, Rand, 
370! Ngamiland; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 267 ! 
21. S. huillana, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i, 757. An erect 
undershrub covered with sessile or stalked glands ; stem 8-16 in. high, 
rigid, rather thick ; branches several, 11-1? in. long. Leaves fascicu- 
late, petiolate or subsessile, cuneate, coriaceous; blade 2-6 lin. long, 
1}-3 lin. broad towards the apex, dentate at the apex; petioles 
Scarcely 34 lin, long. Floral leaves subentire, 2 or 3 times shorter 
than the peduncles. Flowers in a loose terminal raceme; pedicels 3-8 
in. long, becoming 1 in. long in fruit. Calyx-segments narrowly 
lanceolate, 14-2 lin, long, rather obtuse. Corolla brilliantly purple-red ; 
tube 8-12 lin. long, slender, 4 lin. broad below, about 1 lin. broad at the 
apex, thinly covered with very shortly stalked glands; limb slightly 2- 
lipped, 4-5 lin. in diam.; lobes obovate, 14-2} lin. long, 1}-2 lin. 
broad, emarginate or obcordate, covered with sessile glands on the back. 
Stamens included. Capsule 24-3 lin. long, 1} lin. broad.—Chenostoma 
huillanum, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 477. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: between Mumpulla and Arroiol do Caionda, Wel- 
witsch, 5834! Huilla, Antunes, 117. 
Iinperfectly known species. 
22. Lyperia pedicellata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 
223. An erect unbranched lepidote-puberulous herb 5 in. high. Stem 
terete. Leaves 8 lin. long, 3 lin, broad, subpinnately lobed or incised, 
membranous, the lower leaves opposite, the upper alternate and smaller ; 
Segments short, linear, obtuse. Flowers axillary ; pedicels 5-6 lin. 
