﻿214 SCROPHULAUTACEJE (Hiern). [Phygelius. 



Elauds Eivev, near Mont-aux- Sources, 6000 ft., Flanagan, 2019! Basutoland; 

 at 8000 ft., Sanderson (Melleish), 645 ! 



Eastern Region-. Div. ? HaHach,U\ Natal; Klip River, 35GO-4500 ft., 

 Sutherland ! in moist places at the source of the Illovo Eiver, 3000 ft.. 

 Wood, 1853! near Durban, McKen, 6! Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 

 931 



XVIL FREYLINIA, Spin. 



Calyx firmly herbaceous, campanulate, 5-partite, persistent; 

 segments ovate, imbricate in bud. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube 

 subeylindrical, straight, exceeding the calyx ; limb patent, regular ; 

 lobes 5, nearly flat, imbricate in bud ; two posterior exterior. 

 Stamens 4 and didynamous, or occasionally a fifth smaller sterile 

 stamen added near the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments thickly 

 filiform, ascending, included, inserted about or above the middle of 

 the corolla-tube, the pairs somewhat unequal in length ; anthers 

 shortly oblong, 2-celIed ; cells subparallel. Ovary 2-celled ; style 

 about equalling the corolla-tube, thickly filiform ; stigma capitate, 

 ovoid, thicker than the style ; ovules several. Capsule ovoid, obtuse, 

 septicidal ; valves hard, bifid. Seeds few, discoid, with a mem- 

 branous margin. 



Shrubs ; leaves opposite, vertieillate or scattered, coriaceous, entire ; flowers 

 cymose. 



DisTfiiB. Species 2, endemic. 



Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, all opposite ; flowers 



yellowish (1) oppositifoUa. 



Leaves ovate or oval-lanceolate, opposite, vertieillate or 

 scattered; flowers purplish (2) nndulatft. 



1. F. oppositifolia (Spin, Jard. S. Sebast., ed. 2, 13 & 29, nota 

 12) ; a shrub, 4-12 ft. high, glabrous or rarely pubescent above, 

 shining ; root perennial, fibrous-branched ; stem erect, subtetragonous, 

 much branched; branches opposite, divaricate or erect, virgate, 

 greenish, tetragonous, leafy ; leaves opposite, linear or linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, attenuate to the sessile or subsessile base, entire, nearly 

 flat, sometimes subfalcate, evergreen, willow-like, 2-5 in. long, 

 -|-| in. broad, margins narrowly decurrent, midrib very prominent 

 beneath, venation otherwise weak ; panicles many-flowered, 3-8 in. 

 long; ultimate pedicels short, unequal ; flowers yellowish, bracteate, 

 -i-i in. long ; bracts small ; calyx-segments ovate, about ^ in. long, 

 obtuse, apiculate, often minutely glandular-ciliolate ; corolla funnel- 

 shaped; tube subeylindrical, j:-} in. long, whitish below, saffron- 

 yellow above, thinly pilose Avithin, glabrous outside ; limb i-i in- '" 

 diam., regular ; lobes 5, spreading or revolute, ovate, obtuse, saffron- 

 yellow, imbricate in bud ; stamens 4 and didynamous or occasionally 

 with a short and sterile fifth, all included ; .style about as long as 

 the corolla-tube ; capsule about |- J in. long. Gapraria lanceolata, 

 Linn.f. Suiypl. PI 284 ; Thunb. Prodr. 103 ; BurcJi. Trav. S. Af>: 



