﻿220 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiem). [Bou-Tceria. 



axillary, velvety -pubertilou?, bibraeteate above the middle, l-flowered, 

 f-1 in. long, bent at the insertion of the bracts, rather thickened 

 towards the apex ; bracts opposite, caducous ; flowers about } in. 

 long ; calyx-segments ovate or oval, somewhat viscid-glandular, 

 obtuse, i-| in. long; corolla about f in. in diam., cream-coloured, 

 wax-like; style I in. long, persistent for a long time ; fruit |-|^ in. 

 long, ovoid, blunt, about \ in. broad, septicidally 3-valved ; seeds 

 numerous, small, chestnut-coloured or paler, irregularly pyramidal or 

 almost amorphoas, nearly straight or bent. 



Eastern Eegion -. Xatal, Ndwaudsve Div. ; at Emnyati, Gerranl, 1212 '. 



3. B. gerrardiana (Harv. MSS.) ; a shrub, 8-10 ft. high, glabrous 

 below ; branchlcts hirsute with short whitish spreading soft hairs, 

 leafy ; bark pallid ; leaves ternate, oval-lanceolate, mostly acumi- 

 nate, more or less narrowed to the sessile base, firmly chartaeeous, 

 shortly pubescent or glabrous except the veins beneath, with shallow 

 depressed venation and not rugose above, paler beneath, 2-6 in. long, 

 }-l|- in. broad, serrulate; peduncles hirsute or shortly pubescent, 

 1-1|- in. long, mostly 3-6-flowered; pedicels 4—1 in, long, bi- 

 braeteate, usually bibracteolate near the apex ; bracts mostly lanceo- 

 late, acute, deciduous, -^--f in. long ; braeteoles lanceolate or sub- 

 linear, i-i in. long, caducous ; flowers f in. long, f- f in. broad ; 

 calyx ^—} m. long, viscid ; segments ovate or oval, mostly pointed or 

 apiculate ; corolla white, urceolate, much compressed, tough, viscid 

 outside, strongly rue-scented; stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments 

 bent and thickened near the base, curving round the style, glabrous ; 

 style i in. long, glabrous ; capsule i-| in. long. 



Eastern Eegion : Natal ; near York, Gerrard ^ McKen, 2025 ! Upper 

 Umcoitiaas (Umkomanzi) Eiver, 3500 ft., Adlam ! bank of a small stream at 

 Blinkwater, near York, 2000-3000 ft. , Wood, 8831 Shafton, Howick, Mrs. H. 

 Sutton, 75 ! 94! 201 ! and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders! 



V 4. B. triphylla (Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 24, t. 37) ; a glabrous, sub- 

 glabrous or pubescent shrub or tree ; branches virgate, pale reddish 

 buff, somewhat trigonous towards the apex, leafy ; leaves mostly 

 ternate, oval-lanceolate, apiculate, rounded or obtuse at the sessile 

 base, serrulate, somewhat or scarcely rugose above, pale resinovis- 

 dotted, nerved and veined beneath, 2-4 in. long, f-1 1 in. broad ; 

 cymes subterminal, S-flowered, bracteate ; common peduncle 1-H in. 

 long ; pedicels |-| in. long ; bracts ovate, acute, scarious, deciduous, 

 i-i in. long; flowers about f in. long by -} in. broad; calyx- 

 segments shortly acuminate, acute, exuding viscid resin, } in. 

 long ; corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, egg-shaped ; 

 upper lip vaulted, with a fiattish narrow limb, bifid at the top ; 

 lower lip pouch-like, with a deeply 3-lobed limb ; ovary 2- or 3- 

 celled ; style J. in. long. Not of Sonder in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 

 325. ^ 



Coast Region : Albany Div., Bowker ! Mrs. W. F. Barher (Miss Bowker) ! 



