﻿Teedia.] sceophdlaeiacej; (Hiern). * 211 



style shorter than the ovary ; stigma capitate-ovoid, as long as and 

 thicker than the style, obsoletely bifid at the apex; fruit globose, 

 i-^ in. in diam., black-purple or yellowish-brown; seeds black, 

 oval, small, glabrous, very delicately reticulate-punctate. Benih. in 

 Hook. Camp. Bat. Mag. ii. 54, and in DC. Frodr. x. 331 ; Bot. Reg. 

 t. 209 ; Beichenb. Mag. Bot. if. 16 ; Bdgew. Pollen, ed. 2, 30, 78, t, 9, 

 /. 141; O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI in. ii. 240. Capraria lucida, Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 353. BorcMiausenia lucida, Both, Cat. Bot. ii. 

 56. Solanum bracteatum, Thunh. in Act. Gorenlc, (1812) ex Thunh. 

 Fl. Cap. ed. ii. 57-58 ; Thunh. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 189. 



South Africa: without locality, MacOivan, 70! Bolion .' Wallich ! 

 Harvey! Wright! Niven! Oldenhvrgh! Nelson! Thunherg ! Herb. Bur mann! 

 Boioie ! 



Coast Region .- Paarl Div.; F aarl Moo ptain, lOOO^QQJ'fc., Drege,7928al 

 Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, 400-3000 ft., Pappe ! Bolus, 4545 .' in shady 

 places, summit of Constautia Berg, Wolley Bod, 3637! in the clefts of rocks, 

 Muizenberg, 1000 ft., Bolus ! Swellendam Div. ; Swellendam Mountains, 

 Echlon, 42! George Div. ; between Touvv River and Kaymans River, Burchell, 

 5766 I Uniondale Div. ; near Groote River in Lange Kloof, Burchell, 5024 t 

 King Williamstown Div.: summit of Dobne Mountain, 4000 ft., Flanagan, 

 2338! 



Centb.41, Region: Somerset Div.; Somerset East, Miss Bowker ! Alht^rt 

 Div, ; Molteno, Kuntze. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; Modder Fontein Mountain, 4000- 

 5000 ft., Drege, 79286 I 



Eastebn Region: Tembuland ; Gatberg resrion (" Klipburg'") 3000- 

 3500 ft., BoAcr, 245 ! Natal ; near Murchison, Wood, 1996 ! Little Noodaberg, 

 2500 ft,, Wood, 4235 ! 



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2, T, pubescens (Burch. in Bot. Eeg. t. 214) ; a pubescent 

 shrub, about 2 ft. high, biennial, smelling disagreeably but less 

 strongly than the previous species ; stem diffuse, tetragonous, soft, 

 rigid, branched ; branches few, ascending, leafy, unctuously pubes- 

 cent ; leaves ovate or oval, obtuse, apiculate or acute, more or less 

 narrowed or subtruncate at the sessile or shortly petiolate semi- 

 amplexicaul often decurrent base, chartaceous, denticulate or serru- 

 late, -}~3x in, long, -|- 1a in. broad; petioles ranging up to J in. long 

 or less, winged, decurrent at the base; cymes axillary or terminal; 

 axillary peduncles 3-5-flowered, tI-I} in- long, spreading; pedicels 

 short, ranging up to -} in, in fruit ; bracts opposite, about equalling 

 the pedicels ; bracteoles smaller ; flowers scentless, J-.] in. long ; 

 calyx-segments oblong-lanceolate, pointed, ^-^ in. long; corolla-tube 

 pubescent outside, -} in, long, white-rosy, marked at the hairy throat 

 with 5 black-purple stellately arranged decurrent spots; limb 

 patent, a in, in diam,, regular; anthers pale yellow; ovary de- 

 pressedly globose ; style very short ; stigma capitate, oblique ; 

 fruit globose, i in. in diam., glabrous, black-purple, 2-celled; seeds 

 numerous, oval, scrobiculate, black. Benth. in Hook. Camp. Bot. 

 ^^ag. ii. 54, and in DC. Prodr. x. 334. 



Coast Region: Worcester Div. ; rocky places in Hex River Valley, 2O00 ft., 

 Tyson in Herb. Bolus ! George Div. ; mountains in Lange Kloof, near the source 



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