﻿218 SCKOPHULARIACEJE (Hiern). [Anastrahe. 



1. A. integerrima (E, Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. ii. 54) ; a shrub or tree, with the habit oi a Buddleia ; branches 

 numerous, terete ; branchlets divaricate, leafy, clothed towards the 

 extremities, as well as the lower face of the leaves, petioles and 

 inflorescence, with a short stellate deciduous felt ; leaves opposite, 

 oval-oblong, apiculate or mucronulate and acute or obtuse, more or 

 less narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, thinly and dryly 

 coriaceous, deep green and glossy above, paler beneath, entire or in 

 the variety serrulate, 1-4 in. long, {-1^ in. broad, often narrowly 

 re volute along the margin ; petioles xo"~3 ^"- ^^^Sj ^^^ decurrent, 

 channelled above ; cymes many-flowered, about 1 in. long ; peduncles 

 and pedicels rather slender; bracts small; flowers J- in. long, yellow 

 pencilled inside with crimson; calyx i in. long; lobes deltoid or 

 ovate, yV~tV in- long ; corolla felted inside, glabrous inside ; stamens 

 glabrous ; style glabrous ; capsule \-} in. long. Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 334 ; Krams in Flora, 1844, 833. 



Vab. 3, serrulata (Hiern) ; leaves sharply senulate or minutely denticulate ; 

 capsules not much longer than the calyx. A. serrulata, E, Meyer ex Benth. 

 II. cc. 



Easteen Region : Natal ; by a stream between Umzimkulu River and 

 TJmkomanzi River, below 500 fc, Drige, 4834a.! in woods and thickets near 

 Durban, Brege, 4834b! Giieinziux, 50! 440! in woods near the Umlaas 

 (Umlazi) River, Kraugs, 1,57 ! Inanda, Wood, 449 ! and without precise locality, 

 Sanderson, 70 ! 317 ! 525 ! Oerrard, 330 ! 616 ! Brownlee ! Vae. ;3 : Tembu- 

 land; near Morley, 1000-2000 ft., Brege, i&Zoa] Pondoland j between St. 

 Johns River and Umtsikaba River, Drege, 48356 ! Natal ; without precise 

 locality, Gerrard, 331 ! Cooper, 2872 ! Sanderson, 405 ! 



The Native name at Inanda, Natal, is " Isipambati " ; the tree atFords one 

 of the best woods there for building-poles, &c., as it stands exposure to the 

 weather and resists the attacks of termites better than any other {Wood). 



XX. BOWKERIA, Harv. 



Cali/x 5-partite, subcoriaceous, persistent ; segments ovate or 

 lanceolate, imbricate in bud, the posterior the broadest. Corolla 

 tough, ovoid, ventiicose, bilabiate ; tube short ; throat broad ; hmb 

 obhque ; upper lip exterior, concave, shortly bidentate ; lower_ hp 

 interior, inflated, shortly or deeply tridentate. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, one or both pairs shorter than the corolla ; filaments rather 

 thick, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers all perfect ; 

 cells equal, subparallel, not appendaged, confluent at the apex; 

 staminode 1 or 0, small. Ovary ovoid, 3- or 2-celled ; cells many- 

 ovuled ; style rather thickly filiform, somewhat incurved towards the 

 apex; stigma simple, small. Capsule ovoid or oblong, septicidal, 

 coriaceous, somewhat shining ; valves 3 or 2, inflexed on the 

 margin, laying bare the central placentiferous column ; seeds 

 numerous, small, oblong, fusiform or incurved, angular; testa 

 reddish, reticulate, somewhat loose. 



