﻿224 scKOPHDLAHiACEJi (Hiern). [Manulea. 



Glandular -puberulou3 ; calyx 

 aT— iV ^"' ^°'^S ; leaves 

 obloug-spathulate or ob- 



lanceolate (26) parviflora. 



Corolla-tube scabrid-pubescent outside (27) rigida. 

 Corolla-tube finely glandular-tomentose 



outside (28) tomentOBa. 



If Corolla-lobes (at least the posterior) acute : 

 Perennials : 



Pubescent ; leaves mostly broadly ovate : 

 Flowers about |-J in. long; plant 



intricately branched ... ... (29) stellata. 



Flowers about J— 1- in. long ; plant 



loosely branched" (30) virgata. 



Nearly glabrous ; leaves obovate or spathu- 



late (31) campestns. 



Annuals : 



Flowers about i in. long ; calyx i-i in. long (32) Cheiranthus. 

 Flowers about ~ in. long ; calyx -^s~^s ^"• 

 long (33) gariepina. 



1. M. nervosa (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 i. 381) ; an erect herb, 4-6 in. high, shortly puberulous, densely 

 leafy and branched at the crown of the root, annual ; branches simple, 

 erect or ascending, scape-like, rather rigid ; leaves radical, rosulate, 

 obovate or oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, attenuate into the 

 petiole, entire, repand or sparingly dentate, rather glossy, ^-1 in. 

 long, -J-| in. broad, glabrous or minutely papillose ; petioles -|- f >n. 

 long ; flowers about -^— | in. long, numerous, racemose ; racemes 

 terminal, simple, dense above, rather lax below, 11—4:1 ^^- ^°"S > 

 . pedicels ^— | in. long, erect-patent, shortly puberulous, bracteate at 

 the base ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, yV^xVi'^' ^°°g > calyx glandular- 

 puberulous outside, ebracteate, about ^ in. long, bilabiate-bipartite ; 

 lips about equal in length, the upper bifid about ^-way down 

 with the lips membranously conDate below in flower, the lower 

 lip similarly trifid, all the lobes nearly equal, erect, ovate or lanceo- 

 late and subobtuse or subacute ; corolla-tube subglabrous, obsoleteiy 

 glandular outside, rather slender, slightly dilated and curved about 

 the upper half, about -} in, long ; limb spreading, 5-lobed^ mem- 

 branous, veined, about yV in. in diam. ; lobes broadly obovate or 

 slightly emarginate or entire, glabrous, often blistered on the back, 

 about I- in. in diam., two of them more approximated, quite entire 

 and rather smaller than the other three ; stamens didynamous, 

 glabrous ; one pair of anthers reniform, transverse, placed near the 

 mouth of the corolla-tube, about ^^^ in. long ; the other pair linear- 

 oblong, placed lower down in the upper half of the corolla-tube, 

 about Jg in. long ; style filiform ; stigma entire, narrowly clavate- 

 oblong, about y\- in . long, reaching the corolla-mouth ; ovary glab- 

 rous, ovoid-prolonged, obtuse, slij'htly compressed, l in. long ; 

 capsule ovoid, l—} in. long, glabrous, septicidal ; seeds numerous, 

 transversely furrowed, glabrous, about ^\- in. long and J-q in. broad, 

 obtuse at both ends, slightly curved ; fruiting calyx deeply 5-lobed. 

 DC. Prodr. x. 363. 



