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XLVL Bellardia.—CaZ^a! shortly 4.cleffc. Capsule turgii. Seeds ovoid. 



thorpia europcea, Linn. (S. africana, Linn.), was said by Thunberg to 

 occur in the Cape flora and to be occasional and tolerably common there, though 

 be gave no precise locality. Some mistake doubtless was made as to the plaut 

 intended ; if the plant belonjrs to this natural order, possibly it might have been 

 Diclis reptans: see Thunb. Prodr., 104, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 481. la 

 Harvey's Gen. S. Jijr, PI. ed. 2, the genus was not included. S. africana is 

 mentioned in Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 17. 



Scoparia dulcis, Linn., a common tropical weed and widely diffused in all 

 warm latitudes, is mentioned in Sarv. Gen. S. Afr. PL ed. 2, 270 j I huve not 

 seen any South African extratropical specimens. 



A specimen of Scrophularia heterophylla, Willd., exists in Thunberg's Cape 

 herbarium ; perhaps it was cultivated. 



Scrophulariacea, 8264, Drege, Zwei Pflaneengeogr. Documente, 63, 93, 131, 

 219, is Gomphostigma scoparioides, Turcz. 



Scrophulariacea, 4037, Drege, I.e., 148, 219, is unknown to me. 



Euphrasia africana, foliis tenuiter dissectis, Burm. Cat. PI. Afr. Herm. 9, is 

 unknown to me. 



I. APTOSIMUM, Burch. 



Calyx 5-clef t or deeply 5-lobed ; lobes narrow or deltoid, valvate 

 in bud or nearly so. Corolla: tube elongated, much exceeding 

 the calyx, dilated above the base into a long throat ; limb patent, 

 oblique, 5-cleft ; lobes flat, rounded, nearly equal, two posterior 

 exterior. Stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments filiform, inserted near 

 the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers included, transverse, ciliate- 

 hispid, submembranous, with confluent cells, and thus dehiscing 

 along a single transverse line j posterior pair of stamens feebler, 

 shorter, and often with empty anthers. Ovary 2-celled ; style fili- 

 form, exceeding the stamens ; stigma small, obscurely bidentate, 

 emarginate or subcapitate ; ovules numerous. Capsule short, com- 

 pressed at the apex in a plane perpendicular to that of the septum, 

 obcordate, septicidal ; valves usually bifid, adhering at the base to 

 the central placentiferous column. Seeds numerous, not very small, 

 obovoid or compressedly globose ; testa adpressedly reticulate ; funicle 

 sometimes membranous-dilated ; embryo straight or slightly curved ; 

 cotyledons ovate. 



Low undershrubs, prostrate or densely tufted, mostly woody at the base; 

 leaves alternate, usually densely crowded, entire, 1-nerved; flowers sessile or 

 subsessile, axillary and solitary, or in abbreviated axillary cymes, bibracteolate at 

 the base ; corolla blue or purple, veined, membranous. 



DisTElB. Beside the following, there are a few species in Tropical Africa. 



Leaves sessile or subsessile, rigid, usually at length 

 spinescent : . 



Flowers exceeding the leaves; leaves J-1 in. 



long : 



Calyx deeply cleft; leaves white- 

 bordered ... (1) albomarginatum. 



