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6-18 in. high ; branches ascending, rather slender, wiry, siauous- 

 virgate, pallid; branchlets glandular-pubescent, pale green, in- 

 conspicuously striate, distantly leafy ; leaves linear-oblong, obtusely 

 narrowed at the apex, slightly narrowed to the sessile base, i-} in. 

 long. 3V-2V in« broad ; peduncles axillary, }-} in. long, bracteate 

 above the middle ; bracts |-i- in. long, erect ; flowers about or nearly 

 1 in. long ; calyx o-partite, |-i in. long; segments narrowly obdvate- 

 oblong and subobtuse ; corolla sparingly and minutely pilose outside, 

 the broader tubular portion above the calyx about ^ in. long ; fertile 

 stamens 2 ; anthers connate, somewhat bearded, with unequal cells; 

 barren stamens 2 or 1, shorter than the fertile, without anthers ; 

 style about f in. long, puberulous below; capsule | in. long. 

 Peliostomum scojmrium, E. Meyer ex Benth. in Bot. Meg. sub t. 1 882 ; 

 E. Meyer in Brege Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Ducumente, 93. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; on stony and rocky hills by the 

 Orange River, near Verleptpmin, below 1000 ft., Drege, 2444 ! and without 

 precise locality, Wyley, 106 ! 



IV. VEEBASCUM, Linn. 



Calyx 5-partite or deeply 5-cleft, rarely shortly 5-toothed ; lobes 

 imbricate in bud. Corolla rotate ; lobes broad and slightly 

 unequal, the back ones exterior; tube very short. Stamens 5, all 

 fertile ; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-tube ; the three 

 back ones or all woolly-bearded ; anthers by confluence 1 -celled, 

 transversely or obliquely placed at the apex of the filaments. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style elongated, entire, somewhat compressed, thickened 

 towards the apex^ stigmatose at the top ; ovules numerous. Capsule 

 globular or oblong or ovoid, septicidally bivalved ; valves usually 

 bifid, exposing the central placentiferous column. Seeds numerous, 

 ovoid or oblong, wrinkled, not winged ; embryo straight. 



Eobastherts, usually biennial, often clothed with a woolly tomentum ; leaves 

 alternate, entire, variously toothed or lobed ; inflorescence terminal, racemose or 

 spicate, simple or branched ; pedicels usually shoi't and without bracteoles, 

 solitary or fasciculate in the axils of bracts or floral leaves; corolla variously 

 coloured, rarely white. 



DisTRiB. A large genus, with several of the species freely hybridizing, chiefly 

 prevalent in the northern temperate regions of the Old World. 



MacOwan, in the Supplement to No. 17, page V. of the third volume of the 

 Cape Slonthly, in 1871 stated that two species, which ho did not name, occur in 

 South Africa. 



Verhasciim Blatfaria, Linn., is recorded f om the Coast Region, Paarl 

 Div., by the Berg River, below 500 ft., see Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docu- 

 mente, 10, 99, 228. 



1. V. virgatum (Stokes in With. Arrang. Brit. PI. ed. 2, 227) ; 

 whole plant green, thinly pilose on the upper part, 1-5 ft. high ; 

 stem erect, usually simple; radical leaves oblanceolate, subobtuse at 

 the apex, gradually narrowed downwards into the base or winged 



