﻿210 scROPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). [HaUeria. 



of rivulets at Dal Josephafc, 600 ft, Tyson, 845! below the Drakeustein Moun- 

 tains, Thunherg! Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Thunherg ! Caledon Div. ; Klein 

 River Mountains, 1000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 3527 ! Baviaans Kloof, near Gena- 

 dendfll, Lichtenstein ! Swellendam Div.; Buffeljagts River Drift, Biirchell, 

 7283! by the Zondereinde River, Ecldon ^ Zeyher, 27il Burchell, 7512! 

 Krauss, 1633 ! Knysna Div., Pappe ' 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



Wettstein in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356, gives this species as occurring in the 

 Zulu-Katal district. 



XV. TEEDIA, Burch. 



Cali/x herbaceous, 5-partite, persistent ; segments linear-lanceolate, 

 but little imbricate in bud. Corolla deciduous ; tube cylindrical, about 

 equalling or rather exceeding the calyx, bearded and marked with 

 5 spots at the apex ; limb spreading, subregular, 5-lobed ; lobes 

 imbricate in bud, flat in the open flower ; two posterior exterior. 

 Stamens glabrous, 4, didynamous, sometimes with a rudimentary 

 fifth ; filaments short, filiform, inserted near the base of the corolla- 

 tube, ascending; anthers short, ovoid-rotund, subdidymous, 2-celled, 

 included; cells distinct, parallel. Ovary 2-celled, subglobose ; 

 style short, fleshy ; stigma ovoid, capitate, rugose, minutely cleft at 

 the apex ; ovules numerous. Fruit 2-celled, subglobose, indehiscent, 

 bracteate. Seeds numerous, ovoid, rugose, not winged. 



Biennial or perennial shrubs, but not very woody ; leaves opposite, more or 

 less ovate, denticulate ; flowers purplish, of moderate size. 

 DisTRiB. Species 2, endemic. 



Glabrous (1) lucida. 



Pubescent (2) pubescens, 



\y 1, T. lucida (Eudolphi in Schrad. Journ. ii. 288) ; a glabrous 

 shrub, 2-4 ft. high, smelling strongly like a Melianthus ; stem 

 difi'use, tetragonous, smooth, rigid, branched ; branches divaricate, 

 green, leafy ; leaves oval, ovate or elliptical, obtuse, apiculate or 

 acute, more or less narrowed to the sessile or shortly petiolate 

 auriculate-amplexicaul base, shining, chartaceous, serrulate or denticu- 

 late, veined, unequal, ranging up to 5 in. long by 2 in. broad, but in 

 some forms not exceeding 2 in. by |- in. ; petioles ranging up to ^ in. 

 long or less, winged, decurrent at the base ; cymes dense and leafy, 

 terminal or axillary ; common peduncles axillary, ^-\\ in- ^^^^S' 

 tetragonous, 3-7 -flowered ; pedicels short, ranging up to | in. long 

 in fruit ; bracts opposite, lanceolate-linear, J-} in. long ; flowers 

 lilac or rosy, |-|- in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate-oblong or 

 -linear, subobtuse or pointed, J—} in. long ; corolla-tube nearly 

 straight, purplish, shortly exceeding the calyx, subcylindrical, 

 bearded at the throat ; limb patent, marked near the throat with a dark 

 purple stellate spot, f in. diam. ; lobes oval or rounded ; pollen oval, 

 yellowish, yJ^^ in. long, marked with 4-6 furrows ; ovary green, 

 subglobose, somewhat compressed, bisuleate, about -^^ in. in diam. 5 



