﻿Phygelim.'] scrophulariace;e (Hiern). 213 



shortly above the ovarj, elongated, incurved, gradually and 

 moderately dilated above, very oblique at the apex ; lobes ovate- 

 rounded, about i- i in. long ; stamens and style shortly exserted ; 

 capsule ovoid, -l-l in. long, i-| in. thick, oblique, bisulcate, smooth, 

 glaucous; pericarp thin. Fielding, Sert. PI. it. 66-67; Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 300'.- BoL Mag. t. 4881 ; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. 

 ed. i. 252 ; WetUtein in Engl. ^ Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. 3B. 44, 



Coast Region : Albany Div., without precise locality, BoicJcer .' Bedford 

 Div. ; near Bedford, ilfr.s. Hutfon! summit of Kaga Berg, MacOwan, 1104! 

 Queenstown Div. ; Winter Berg, 3Irs. Barher .' British Katfraria, without 

 precise locality. Cooper, 296 ! Mrs. Barber ! 



Central Region : Somerset Div. ; summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., Mac- 

 Oivan, 1104 ! Graaff Reinet and Murraysburg Div. ; Koudeveld Mountain, 

 Sneeuvvberg Range, 4800-5000 ft.. Bolus, 12371 Tyson, 100! Aliwal North Div. ; 

 by streams on the Witte Bergen, 5000-7000 ft., Drige, 7875 ! Albert Div. ; 

 without precise locality. Cooper, 665 ! 



Kalahari Region: Basutoland ; without precise locality. Cooper, 2818! 

 Orange River Colony ; by the Elands River near Monc-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., 

 Flanagan, 2018 ! 



0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 238, refers to this species specimens collected 

 by him in Van Reenens Pass, Natal. I have not seen thera, but on geographical 

 grounds I suspect that they may belong to P. (cqualis. 



^ 2. P. aequalis (Harv. MSS.) ; a beautiful undershrub, erect, 

 branched, quite glabrous except the shortly puberulous inflorescence, 

 2-3 ft. high, woody below, subherbaceous above, with the habit of a 

 Fuchsia ; branches virgate, rather thick, smooth, quadrangular, very 

 narrowly 4-winged by the decurrence of the petioles ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate or the upper lanceolate, more or less obtuse, wedge-shaped or 

 subtruncate at the base, thickly chartaceous, crenulate-serrulate, 1-4 

 in. long, i-lf in. broad ; petioles deeply channelled above, clasping, 

 narrowly decurrent, shortly biauriculate at the base, ranging up to 

 1 in. long or more ; inflorescence terminal, oblong, closely cymose, 

 compound, secund, bracteate, 3-9 in. long ; ultimate pedicels yV-i 

 Jn. long, spreading or recurving towards the apex ; calyx-segments 

 lanceolate or suboblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, glabrous, ]-\ in. 

 Jong; corolla l-l^ in. long, glabrous, smooth, crimson or dull 

 salmon in colour outside, from orange to dull purple inside ; tube 

 narrowly funnel-shaped, not much curved or nearly straight, sub- 

 equal at the mouth, somewhat dilated about the base outside the 

 ovary ; lobes ovate-rotund, \-^ in. long ; stamens shortly exserted ; 

 style far exserted ; capsule obliquely oval, } in. long, ]-^ in. broad, 

 glabrous, based with the non-accrescent calyx, glabrous, glaucous, at 

 length septicidal ; pericarp rather thin. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; by the sides of creeks at MacMac, Uudd ! 

 banks of streams close to the water at Hoodies, Barberton, 3000-4000 ft., Galpm, 

 •^71 ! near Lydenburg, by running water, Wilms, 1069 ! Elands River Monn- 

 tains, 7600 ft., Schlechter. 38i8 ! Orange River Colony ; on the banks of the 



