﻿226 scROPHULARiACEyE (Hiern). [Manidea. 



glandular ; corolla fragrant, cream-coloured ; tube rather slender, 

 i-i in. long, minutely glandular outside ; limb spreading, ^-i in. 

 in diam., glabrous^ above ; lobes oval or oblong, obtuse, entire or 

 bifid at the apex,* tV-tV ^^- ^^ng ; mouth glabrous ; stamens and 

 style included ; capsules ovoid, glabrous or minutely or obsoletely 

 glandular-puberulous, xV~t i^- ^^^S- 



Western Eegion : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; ou gravelly hills by the Zout Kiver, 

 450 ft., SchlecUer, 8110 ! 



The following ate probably forms or varieties of this species : — 



South Africa: without locality, Dre^e, 3136b ! 



Centkai. Region: CaNinia Div.; Brand Vley, Johanssen, 4! Ceres Div.; 

 at Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1229 ! Fraserburg Div. ; betweeu Kleiu Quaggas 

 Fonteiu aud Dwaal River, Burchell, 1447! Sutherland Div. ; on the Reggeveld, 

 near Jakhals Pontein, Burchell, 1324 ! Somerset Div. ; on karroo-like plains, near 

 Pearston, 2700 ft., Bolus, 1861 ! 



Burchell, 1324, is the plant mentioned by Burchell. Trav. 8. Afr. i. 258, as 

 belonging to a genus allied to Buchtiera ,• also Burchell, 1447, is one of the 

 2 species of Erinus, I.e. i. 277. 



4. M. benthamiana (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, simple or 

 somewhat divided at the base, slightly puberulous, not or scarcely 

 glossy, 3-15 in. high ; stems or branches scape-like, erect or 

 ascending, leafy at and near the base, above naked or sparingly 

 leafy ; lower leaves crowded, elliptical, obovate or oblanccolate, obtuse, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, petiolate, nearly glabrous, more or less 

 strongly toothed or subentire, |-1-} in. long, i-f in, broad ; petioles 

 ^-\ in. long ; upper leaves few, narrow, toothed or entire, alternate 

 or subopposite, smaller, subsessile ; flowers mostly l^-f in. long, 

 numerous, racemose, white ; racemes simple, subcapitate in flower, 

 rather oblong and lax below in fruit, |-3 in. long ; pedicels very 

 short or the lower ^-i in. long, bracteate at or near the base ; bracts 

 sublinear or subulate like the calyx-segments or uppermost leaves, 

 •i^-i in. long or sometimes longer ; calyx mostly ^-^ in. long, deeply 

 5-lobed, ebracteolate ; segments linear or lanceolate-subulate, mostly 

 i-i in. long, puberulous, ciliolate, often spreading above ; corolla- 

 tube rather slender, somewhat flexuous or bent, papillose-pubescent 

 or pulverulent outside, about twice as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 obovate or rotund, retuse or subentire at the apex, somewhat un- 

 equal, tV-to in. long ; throat papillose-pubescent, yellow ; stamens 

 included ; capsules oval, subglabrous, i in. long. Manulea corym- 

 hosa, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 381, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 363 ; not of Linn. f. nor of Thunb. M. silenoides, Brege in Linnaa, 

 XX. 199, not of E. Meyer. 



Coast Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Wind Hoek, 300 ft., Schlechter, 8070. 

 Piquetberg Div. ; on hills behind Pifiuiuicrs Kloof, 700 ft. (:v form with longer 



and Tyger Berg, below 500 ft., Brege ! ^Bathurs't Div. ; sandy places near the 

 mouth of the Pish River, 100 ft,, MacOwan, 1445 ! 



