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Ixianthes.'] scrophttlaeiace^ (Hiern). 217 



valves hard, shortly bifid. Seeds numerous, ovoid-oblong, truncate 

 obtusely angled ; testa loose, hyaline, reticulate. 



A shrub, with erect branches and the habit almost of a Be^sm; leaves crowded 

 wliorled, narrow, coriaceous : flowers axillary, numerous. 



DiSTEiB. Species 1, endemic. 



1. I. retzioides (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag, ii, 53) ; a 

 robust shrub, in some cases 5-7 ft. high ; branches terete, glabrous, 

 virgate, erect, densely leafy, somevrhat hairy towards the apex ; 

 leaves crowded, 3- or 4-verticilIate, linear or nearly so, narrowed 

 towards both ends especially the base, sessile^ shining, greyish-green 

 above, paler beneath, rigidly coriaceous, distantly and sliarpl}' 

 serrulate along the upper half, 2|-1 in. long, i-i- in. broad, hispidu- 

 lous or glabrous; whorls alternating; peduncles axillary, 1 -flowered, 

 i-l|- in. long, bibracteate about or below the middle ; bracts like 

 the leaves but smaller, |— ^ in. long; flowers J-lf in. long; calyx 

 f-f in. long, rigid, veined, pilose ; posterior segment ovate, about 

 ^ in. long and ^ in, broad ; the others lanceolate, acute, about J-} in. 

 long and ^-i in. broad; corolla sulphur-coloured, pubescent, viscid 

 outside ; tube gibbously inflated, f in. long; lobes rounded, spread- 

 ing, nearly equal, the two upper erect, the three lower spreading; 

 stigma purple; capsule about |- in, long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 

 X. 335 ; Rarv. Thes. Cap. i. 62, t. 99, and Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. i. 

 253 ; MacOican in Gard. Ghron. 1889, v. lU.fig. 19 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 7409. 



Coast Region: Tulbagh Div. ; by streams ou the mountains above Tulhagh 

 waterfall, 1200-1300 ft., very rare, Ecklon ^ Zeyher .' Fappe .' Bolus, 5307! 

 MacOwan, Herl. Norm. Aust.-Afr. 951 ! 



According to Prof. MacOwan " it grows almost in the water, but in drier 

 places becomes stunted and assumes exactly the hibit represented by Harvey." 

 A white-flowered yariety occurred with the ordinary form. 



XIX. ANASTRABE, E. Meyer. 



Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-cleft, firmly herbaceous, persistent ; 

 lobes valvate in bud. Corolla bilabiate; tube short; posterior lip 

 bipartite, exterior in bud, segments flat; anterior lip larger than the 

 posterior, very shortly trifid, induplicate in bud and interior, after- 

 wards concave, boat-shaped, spreading. Stamens 4, didynanious, 

 the fifth rudimentary ; filaments thickly filiform, somewhat ascend- 

 ing ; anther-cells confluent at the apex. Ovary 2.celled ; style 

 thickly filiform, truncate or emarginate at tlie stigmatose apex ; 

 ovules several. Capsule ovoid, septicidal ; valves hard and coriaceous, 

 bifid. Seeds few ; testa rather lax, membranous, netted. 



A shrub or tree; leaves opposite; flowers rather small, arranged in axillary 

 «nd termtnal cymes. 



DiSTKiB. Species 1, endemic. 



