﻿Bowkeria.] sceophulartace^ (Hiern). 219 



Shrubs^ or trees ; leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, peiininerved, usually 

 ternate ; inflorescence axillary or subterminal. 



DiSTEiB. Species 5, endemic. 



Peduncles mostly 1-flowered ; style J— J in. long; • 



leaves sessile or subsessile ; style ^ in. long : 



Calyx ^-t in. long (1) simpliciflora. 



Calyx ^i in. long (2) velutina. 



Peduncles 3-6-flowered ; style |--l in. long ; leaves 

 sessile : 



Filaments bent and thickened near the base ... (3) gerrardiana. 



Filaments not bent near the base (4) triphylla. 



Cymes often many-flowered ; style ^.r-f in . long ; 



leaves shortly petiolate ... ... (.5) cymosa. 



1. B. simpliciflora (MacOwan in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 390) ; a 

 much-branched shrub, 4-5 ft. high, or a small tree ; branches pubes- 

 cent, ternate or sometimes quaternate ; leaves mostly ternate, rarely 

 binate or quaternate, oblong, oblong-ovate or oval-lanceolate, some- 

 what acute or narrowed at or towards the apex, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, crenate, repand-denticulate or subentire, thin, pubescent on 

 both faces, rugulose, 1-5 in. long, 1—1} in. broad ; veins somewhat 

 prominent beneath ; flowers about 1 in. long and | in. in diam. ; 

 peduncles mostly 1-flowered, pubescent, inserted in the upper axils, 

 ]-l in. long, bibracteate near the apex ; bracts ovate, acute, about 

 -3- in. long, caducous; calyx resinous, -^-f in. long; segments broadly 

 ovate or oblong, raucronate or acuminate ; corolla ovoid, inflated ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous, quite included within the corolla ; ovary 

 3-celled; style } in. long; capsule ovoid or shortly cylindrical, 

 persisting for a long time, septicidally 3-valved, ^-} in. long. 

 Tridweladus verticiUatus, EcM. Sf Zeyh. Enum. PL Afr. Amtr. 356, 

 n, 2271. B. triphylla, Sonder in Harv. 4' Sond. FL Cap. ii. 325, 

 not of Harvey. B. triphylla, var. pubescens, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. iii. ii. '230, partly. 



Coast Eegion : Stnckenstrom Div. ; mountains near Seymour, 5000 ft., 

 Scully in MacUwan c?- Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 592! Qneenstown Dir. ; 

 among rocks on the Winter Berg, EcUon Sr Zeyher ! top of Chumie Mouutam and 

 Gaikas Kop, Bowler! Mrs. Barber, 21\ King Williamstown Div. ; Buffalo 

 River Mountains, 3000 ft., MacOican, 2025 ! 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; along the Elands River, near 

 Mount-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., Flanaffa^i, 2000 1 



Eastern Region: Tembuland ; Buma, 2500-3000 ft., Bowr, 206! Gnqua- 

 land East; Fort Donald, Tyson, 1638! lusiswe, 60C0 ft.. Schlechter, 60III 

 forest-edges at St. Augustine, 2500-30^1 ft., Baur, 206 ! Natal ; edge of wood 

 at Van Reenen, 5000-6000 ft., Wood, 5256 ! 



2. B. velutina (Harv. MSS.) ; a shiub, 4-6 ft. high ; branches 

 numerous, branched, terete ; branchlets more or less softly pubescent 

 or velvety, leafy ; internodes short ; leaves ternate, narrowly oval or 

 elliptic-oblong, usually narrowed towards both ends or apjculate, 

 subsessile, velvety, smooth above, rather paler and with raised 

 venation beneath, distinctly serrulate, Ij-S in. long, i-1 in. broad, 

 usually revolute on the margin at least in the dry state ; peduncles 



