﻿212 scEOPHULAEUCBj; (Hiern). [Teedia. 



of the Keurebooms River, Burehell, 5089 ! Uniondale Div. ; on rocky hills by 

 the Klip River, near Keurebooms River, 2000-3000 ft., Drege, 792^1 Humans- 

 dorp Div. ; mountain side of Lange Kloof, near the western bank of the Wageii- 

 booms Rirer, Burehell, 4919 ! 



XVI. PHYGELIXIS, E. Meyer. 



Calyx thickly chartaceous, 5-partite ; segments imbricate, per- 

 sistent, not accrescent in fruit. Corolla trumpet-shaped ; tube long, 

 incurved or nearly straight, gradually dilated upwards ; limb strongly 

 oblique or nearly equal ; lobes 5, short, obtuse, subequal, more or 

 less spreading, the two posterior exterior. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 glabrous; filaments thickly filiform, declinate, inserted below the 

 mouth of the corolla, exserted ; anthers oblong, 2-celled ; cells 

 parallel ; connective thick ; sfcaminode obsolete. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style thickly filiform, exserted beyond the stamens, glabrous ; stigma 

 small, minutely bifid ; ovules numerous. Capsule ovoid, more or 

 less oblique, septicidal ; valves entire. Seeds irregularly ovoid, 

 bluntly angular, subreticulately veined, minutely papillose ; testa 

 rather thickly spongy. 



Robust undershrubs, glabrous or nearly so, erect ; leaves opposite ; 

 flowers numerous, Penstemon-like, arranged in terminal socund paniculate 

 cymes. 



DisTRiB. Species 2, endemic. 



Inflorescence loosely cymose ; pedicels ^-1 in. long ; calyx- 

 segments ovate or oblong-lanceolate ; corolla-tube in- 

 curved, very oblique at the apex ... ... ... ... (1) capensis. 



Inflorescence closely cymose ; pedicels xj-g in. long ; 

 calyx-segments lanceolate or subobloug ; corolla-tnbe 

 not much curved or nearly straight, subequal at the 

 apex (2) sequalis. 



V ^ 1. P. capensis (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii- 

 63) ; a handsome undershrub, erect, loosely branched, quite glabrous 

 or nearly so except the puberulous inflorescence, 2-3 ft. high, woody 

 below, subherbaceous above ; branches rather thick, smooth, quad- 

 rangular, very narrowly d-winged by the decurrence of the petioles ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 

 subtruncate or subcordate or somewhat narrowed at the base, thinly 

 coriaceous or thickly chartaceous, crenulate-serrulate, 1-5 in. long, 

 i-2J in. broad ; petioles deeply channelled above, clasping, narrowly 

 decurrent, the longer shortly biauriculate at the base, i~2| in. long ; 

 inflorescence terminal, pyramidal, loosely cymose, compound, secund, 

 drooping, |-1| ft. long, bracteate ; ultimate pedicels i-1 in. long, 

 recurved at the apex ; calyx-segments ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or obtusely, acuminate, glabrous, about ^ in. long; corolla 

 deep scarlet, about 1| in. long, subglabrous, smooth ; tube contracted 



