﻿134 SCEOPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [PeliostGmum. 



spreading, i-i- in. long, I— i ^"- broad, strongly viscid; flowers 

 shortly pedicellate, densely glandular-pilose all over; calyx 5-partite 

 nearly to the base ; segments linear, \ in. long, ^^ in. broad ; corolla 

 tube four times as long as the calyx, f in. long, -^ in. broad ; lobes 

 obovate, ^V ^^- long and broad ; stamens 4, the longer ones reaching 

 the corolla-throat; capsule oblong, shortly exceeding the calyx, i in. 

 long, \ in. broad ; pericarp thin ; valves 2, bifid at the apex ; seeds 

 ovoid, brown, ^^ in. long. 



Westeen Region : Great Namaqualand ; near Angra Pequena, Hermann, 

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I have not seen an authentic specimen ; tY.e opposite leaves suggest a different 

 genua and indeed a different tribe. 



3. P. viscosum (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Bot. Eeg. sub t. 1882) ; 

 root rather slender, tapering from the base of the stem ; stem woody 

 about the base, viscid-pubescent above, erect, wiry, loosely branched, 

 4-6 in. high ; branches divaricate, viscid -pubescent, wiry, rigid, 

 leafy above ; leaves alternate, oval or obovate, obtuse at the apex, 

 somewhat narrowed to the subsessile or shortly petiolate base, some- 

 what fleshy, viscid-puberulous, |-f in. long, i-i in. broad ; midrib 

 strong and conspicuous below except in the upper leaves ; flowers 

 axillary, subsessile, solitary, -I— | in. long, exceeding the leaves at 

 their base ; calyx 5-partite ; segments i-i in. long, linear in flower, 

 oblong in fruit, acute, viscid-pubescent, green ; corolla ^-f in. long, 

 the narrow part of the tube but little longer than the calyx ; 

 anthers very shortly ciliate ; capsule -|— i in. long, puberulous out- 

 side. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 346. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; along the Orange Eiver, on stony 

 and rocky hills near Verleptpram, below 1000 ft. , Brege, 2446 ! 



4. P. origanoides (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 

 1882) ; an intricately branched undershrub, glabrous or very nearly 

 so, 2-8 in. high; branches woody-wiry, rather short, tortuous- 

 prostrate or decumbent, ashy or pallid ; branchlets leafy, minutely 

 glandular-puberulous ; leaves alternate, oval or obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, 

 shortly petiolate, rather thick, obscurely 1 -nerved, ^\ in. long, 

 aV"^ ^"- broad; flowers axillary, solitary, ^-1 in. long, much 

 exceeding the leaves ; peduncles ^\ /^ in. long or shorter, usually 

 bibracteate ; bracts narrow, small ; calyx \~\ in. long, 5-partite ; 

 segments sublinear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, subacute, green ; 

 corolla blue ; throat wide ; limb about \ in. in diam., narrow part 

 of the tube scarcely exserted ; anthers shortly ciliate or nearly 

 glabrous, all fertile ; capsule \~\ in. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 

 X. 346. Lycium serpyllifoKum, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i- 

 509. 



Coast Eegion : Uitenhage Div.; Winter Hoek Mountains, 1000-3000 ft., 

 Zeylier ! 



Central Region ; Somerset Div. ; stony ridges between Great Vogel Eiver 



