﻿130 SCEOPHULARIACEJ; (Hiern). [^Aptosimum. 



csespitose, shortly and sparingly or more or less densely pilose ; stem 

 sometimes procumbent and woody ; branches densely cro"\vded, 

 short ; branchlets densely leafy ; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or 

 linear, narrowed at the apex into an apiculus, attenuate to the robust 

 subsessile or sessile base, 1^-3 in. long, -gV— i ^^- hroad, finely 

 hispidulous or sparingly glandular hairy, ciliate below, erect or 

 ascending ; midrib from a stout base tapering to the apex ; flowers 

 sessile or subsessile, shortly pubescent, f- 1 in. long ; bracteoles 

 narrowly linear, ^ in. long; calyx ^—i in. long, divided two-thirds way 

 down into 5 narrowly lanceolate-linear acute pilose-ciliate lobes ; 

 corolla very bright deep blue ; lower part of the tube much constricted ; 

 longer stamens reaching the middle of the broader part of the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers pilose ; stigma subcapitate ; style hairy below, very 

 slender, somewhat exceeding the corolla ; ovary compressed, ovoid, 

 glabrous ; fruit hard, almost woody, -^-^ in. long, bivalved, bilocular ; 

 valves bifid at the apex ; cells many-seeded ; seeds black and scro- 

 biculate. Hiern, Cat. Afr, PI. Welw. i. 755. 



Centeai Eegion : Hopetown Div. ; near Hopetown, Muskett in Herh. Bolus, 

 2040 ! 7116 ! Slxmv, 54 ! 



Kalahaki Region: Griqualand West ; St. Clair, nea^^elmont, Orpen, 1071 

 Bechuanaland ; near Mafeking, Bolus, 6412! bushy woods by the Limpopo 

 Iliver, Passarge, 64 ! Transvaal ; summit of Houtbosch Berg, Nelson, 491 ! 

 South. African Goldfields, Barnes .' Makapans Poort, 4300 ft. alt., SohleeMer, 

 4321! Bosehveld, near Ruchplaats, Wilms, 1807! near the confluence of the 

 Crocodile and Kaap Rivers, Barber ton. Bolus, 7673 ! 



Also in South Tropical Africa. 



9. A. indivisum (Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 219, 225); a dwarf 

 undershrub, densely leafy, |-3 in. high ; rootstock more or less 

 woody ; stem short, woody, in many cases shortly and closely 

 branched or sometimes scarcely divided ; branches extremely short ; 

 leaves densely csespitose, spathulate or linear-spathulate, very acute 

 or spiny-cuspidate or apiculate at the apex, gradually attenuate into 

 the more or less strongly ciliate or nearly glabrous petiole, minutely 

 tomentose or minutely papillose or often nearly glabrous, sometimes 

 ciliate especially about the base, i-1 in. long, i-i- in. broad, crowd- 

 ing the flowers ; petioles longer than or nearly as long as the leaves ; 

 bracteoles narrowly linear, puberulous, about } in. long, inserted at 

 the base of the calyx or on the short pedicels ; flowers sessile or 

 subsessile, f-|. in. long, about equalling or shorter than the leaves ; 

 calyx about | in. long, divided half-way down, or rather deeper ; lobes 

 unequal, ovate-acuminate, shortly pubescent or cottony within, 

 cihate on the margin ; corolla purple or blue, with black or dusky 

 purple spots at the throat ; tube contracted below within the calyx ; 

 anthers ciliate ; capsules persisting for a long time after the fall of 

 the corolla. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 345 ; Weitstein in Engl. ^ 

 PrantL Pflanzenfam. iv. 3b, 44, Jig. 21 C. A. nanum, Engl 

 Jahrh. x. 249. Ohlendorffia wsulata, Nees ah Esenh. ex Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. X. 345. 



