﻿168 SCEOPHULARIACE^ (Hiem). [Hemimeris. 



i-| in. broad, shortly petiolate ; lower petioles ranging ap to f in. 

 long ; lobes or teeth obtuse ; peduncles arranged in the upper axils, 

 rather slender, furrowed, }-l\ in. long, spreading or suberect, 

 crowded at the tops of the stem and branches ; calyx-segments lanceo- 

 late, oval-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, minutely glandular- 

 pilose, "I— ^ in. long ; corolla about ^ in. long, bilabiate, marked inside 

 with patches of pale circular papillae, larger lip ^ in. broad, smaller 

 lip short ; spurs 2, conical-oblong, obtuse, ^ in. long, i in. broad at 

 the basal attachment ; stamens 2, about ^ in. high, subglabrous, 

 suberect ; filaments shortly curved in diflerent directions at the 

 base and apex, very slightly tapering upwards, about i\-yo ^^- ^*^°S ' 

 anthers oblong-oval, tV^xV ^^- lo^g ! poUen very small, subglobose, 

 meridionally ribbed ; capsule shortly ovoid, subglabrous, ^-^ in. 

 long and broad; style apical, declining, about J^ in. long. 



Centkal Regiox : Calvinia Div. ; in Karoo soil, near Calvinia, 3000 ft., 

 Leipoldt, 936 ! at Matjes JFontein in the Onder Bokkeveld, 2300 ft., Schlechfer, 

 1092.5 ! 



VIII. COLPIAS, B. Meyer. 



Cahjx 5-partite ; segments but little imbricate. Corolla : tube 

 moderate in length, broad, somewhat declinate at the base, slightly 

 incurved and ascending, nearly erect, with two gibbosities or short 

 pouches in front ; lobes 5, broad, spreading, nearly equal, two back 

 ones exterior. Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, all bearing anthers ; 

 filaments short, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, incurved but 

 not circumflexed ; anthers at length 1-celled by the confluence of the 

 two diverging cells. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, short, emargi- 

 nate and thinly stigmatose at the apek ; ovules numerous. Capsule 

 ovoid, acuminate, 2-celled, septicidal ; valves 2, coriaceous, bifid, 

 laying bare the placentiferous column. Seeds numerous, oblong, 

 carunculate ; testa adpressed, granular-rugose ; embryo straight, 

 slender. 



A low, much-branched shmb; branchlets softly pilose, snbherbaceous, becom- 

 ing dusky in the dry state, leafy ; leaves alternate and scarcely opposite, dentate 

 or incise, petiolate ; peduncles axillary, solitary, ebracteate, i-flowered ; flowers 

 rather large, sulphur-yellow. 



DiSTRtB. Species 1, endemic. 



1. C. mollis (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 

 53) ; divaricately branched, scarcely 6 in. high ; branches brittle, 

 somewhat woody below, densely pilose with long jointed pallid 

 hairs, leafy above ; leaves numerous, ovate- or rotund-deltoid, 

 apiculate at the apex, subtruncate or subcoidate about the base, 

 -|-| in. long and broad, dentate or incise-palmatilobed ; teeth acute 

 or apiculate ; petioles |-| in. long, pilose ; peduncles exceeding the 

 leaves, |-2 in. long; flowers -|-f in. long; calyx pilose, ciliate ; 

 segments ovate, lanceolate or oblong, }~^- in, long ; corolla glabrous ; 



