﻿Retzia.] soLANACE^ (Wright). 121 



Lam. III. 1. 103 ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 582 : Schnitzl. leonoar. 

 t. liS** fiffs. hl6. 



SoTTTH Africa : without locality, Thorn ! Forsyth ! Forster ! Roxburgh ! 



Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div. ; sandy places on the summit of Hottentots 

 Holland Mountain, Zeyher ! Niven ! Hottentots Holland, in pure sand, Bowie ! 

 Caledon Div. ; on stony mountains near Lowrys Pass, 1200 ft., MacOwan, 

 2569 ! and in Herh. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 245! tops of mountains between Lowrys 

 Piiss and Houw Hoet, Thunberg .' Houw Hoek. 2500 ft., Bowie.' Schlechter, 

 7434 I between Palmiet Riyer and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8187 ! 



Okdee XCV. SCROPHITLARIACEiE. 



(By W. P. HiEKir, P.R.S.) 



Floioers hermaphrodite, piore or less irregular. Calyx inferior, 

 persistent ; lobes 5 or 4, rarely only 3, usually more or less united, 

 unequal or nearly equal, valvate, variously overlapping or open in 

 hud. CoroZZa gamopetalous ; tube straight, oblique or curved, some- 

 times very short, in some genera produced at the base into 1 or 2 

 spurs or pockets ; limb 5- or 4- (rarely only 3-) lobed, bilabiate or 

 tne lobes nearly or quite equal and more or less equally spreading ; 

 lobes variously overlapping but not contorted in bud ; posterior lip 

 bilobed, entire or rarely obsolete ; anterior lip 3- (rarely 4-) lobed. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous or equal, or only 2, sometimes 5, the fifth 

 more or less rudimentary, rarely perfect or like the other four ; fila- 

 ments inserted in the corolla-tube ; anthers 1- or 2-celled, cells 

 alike or one smaller or empty, sometimes confluent ; pollen x-jVo" 

 TTo in. ..long, globose or oval, with or without 3-6 longitudinal 

 furrows or bands or with 2 meridional lines, sometimes notched about 

 the middle, rough or smooth, viscid. Hypogynous disk annular or 

 unilateral, inconspicuous or obsolete. Ovary superior, sessile, entire, 

 £- or rarely 3-celled ; placentas central, adnata to the septum ; style 

 simple, entire or shortly cleft at the stigmatic apex ; stigma small or 

 capitate or club-shaped j ovules numerous or several in each cell, 

 anatropous or amphitropous. Fmit superior, usually capsular, septi- 

 cidal or loculicidal or sometimes both, rarely opening at or near the 

 apex ; in some genera baccate and indehiscent. Seedg numerous, 

 several or few, sessile or subsessile ; hilum basilar or lateral ; f unicle 

 short ; testa membranous and tight, pitted, reticulate, scrobiculate, 

 ribbed or smooth, sometimes hyaline, loose and reticulate; kernel 

 covered with a thin lining; albumen fleshy ; embryo usually straight 

 and not much shorter than the albumen ; radicle directed towards 

 the hilum. 



Annual or perennial herbs, or small shrubs, rarely lai^e shrubs or moderate-wzed 

 trees, glabrous or hairy, sometimes viscid-glandular ; stipules ; leaves entire, 

 dentate or variously lobed or dissected, opposite, alternate or verticillatc ; in- 

 florescence simple or compound, centripetal, or if compound, centrifugal on the 



