﻿206 scKOPHULARiACE^ (Hicm). [Antirrhinum. 



glabrous, bent at the middle, somewhat curved at the apex; ovary 

 densely pilose, glandular; style terete, rather thick, bent at the 

 apex ; capsule shortly ovoid, blunt, gibbous at the base, bisulcate, 

 hard and almost woody at maturity, ^-^ in. long, ^-^ in. broad ; cells 

 unequal. Chavannen, Monogr. Antirrhin. 89 ; Benth. in BO. Prodr. 

 X 290 ; Cm-tis, FL Lond. ed. 2, iii./a«<?. i. t. 62. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; in an orchard near Kirstenbosch, Wolley Dod, 

 3050! Introduced. 



A native of Europe, North Africa, the Orient, North India, and Atlantic 

 Islands. 



XIII. DERMATOBOTRYS, Bolus. 



Calyx herbaceous, 5-partite ; segments equal, valvate in bud, sub- 

 persistent, not or scarcely accrescent in fruit. Corolla trumpet- 

 shaped ; tube long, somewhat incurved, gradually widened upwards, 

 not constricted at the mouth ; limb symmetrical, somewhat spread- 

 ing ; lobes 5, short, ovate-rotund, equal, cochleate in bud, anterior 

 one innermost. Stamens 5, equal ; filaments filiform, very short, 

 inserted near the top of the corolla-tube ; anthers shortly oval, erect, 

 2 -celled, just appearing at the mouth of the corolla, not appendaged ; 

 cells equal, parallel, dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen spheroidal, 

 smooth. Ovary 2-celled, superior ; style filiform, as long as or 

 longer than the corolla ; stigma small, minutely bifid ; ovules 

 numerous in tbe cells ; hypogynous disk pulvinate, almost obsolete. 

 Fruit baccate, 2-celled, ovoid-conical ; exocarp thinly fleshy, but 

 little juicy ; endocarp thickly coriaceous. Seeds numerous, spheroidal ; 

 testa papillose- scrobiculate ; embryo straight or nearly so. 



A branched undershrub ; leaves opposite, exstipnlate, fleshy ; flowers lateral. 

 A section made of the pith does not show microscopic evidence of a SolanaceooS 

 character, there being an absence of internal phloem. 



DiSTRiB, Species 1, endemic, 



1. D. Saundersii (Bolus in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1940) ; a glabrous 

 epiphytic shrub ; rootstock 4 ft. high, about \ in. thick but increasing 

 towards the top to 2 in. thick, furrowed transversely as in a Dahlia 

 root; rootlets fibrous; stems more or less quadrangular; ultimate 

 branchlets \-\ in. thick ; leaves opposite, decussate, ovafe or 

 elliptical, acute or broadly pointed at the apex, more or less narrowed 

 at the entire base, strongly toothed or repand-dentate, fleshy, red- 

 veined, turning black-green in the dried state, 2-6 in. long, l-3f in- 

 broad ; petioles |-2 in. long ; flowers clustered at the nodes on the 

 branchlets, usually three together, bracteate at the base, H-l| in- 

 long ; peduncles J^-i in, long, spreading ; bract elliptic-linear, acute 

 at both ends, about f in. long, \ in. broad ; calyx-segments lanceo- 

 late, acute, glabrous, |-i in. long ; corolla red?; tube beset inside 

 towards the base with stiff broad white hairs ; lobes about \ in. 

 long ; anthers -/^ in. long, glabrous ; style glabrous, slender, taper- 



