﻿228 SCEOPHULAEIACE^ (Hiem) . [Manulea. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; on hills at Lamm Kraal, 1000 ft., 

 ScMechter, 10848 ! 



7. M. Burchellii (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, branched, not 

 glossy, glandular-puberulous, about 1 ft. high; branches erect- 

 patent, rather slender, mostly simple and nearly straight; leaves 

 cauline as well as radical, linear or oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowing to 

 the sessile or subsessile base, subentire or sparingly dentate, i-li m. 

 long, iTf-iV in- broad ; flowers about } in. long, numerous, rather 

 distant or the upper approximate, ochraceous, racemose ; racemes 

 spike-like, l|-6 in. long ; pedicels yV in. long or shorter ; bracts 

 subulate, ro-yV in- long, glandular-puberulous ; calyx about {- m. 

 long, deeply 5-lobcd, glandular-puberulous ; segments sublinear or 

 lanceolate-subulate ; corolla-tube glandular-puberulous outside for its 

 whole length, rather slender ; limb glabrous within ; lobes oval- 

 oblong, obtuse, entire or nearly so, tq-— rV ^^- loi^g 5 stamens included ; 

 capsules ovoid, about equalling the calyx. 



Kalahari Region : Bechuanaland ; between Mosliowa River and Chue Vley, 

 Burchell, 2403 ! 



8. M. incisiflora (Hiern) ; an annual herb, suberect, slender, 

 branched, about 9 in. high; branches sparingly leafy, ascending; 

 leaves cauline as well as radical, oblanceolate or spathulate, obtuse, 

 attenuate to the base, subentire, sparingly dentate or crenulate, 

 ■|-| in. long, Jj-j in. broad ; petioles up to ^- in. long; upper leaves 

 alternate, subsessile or shortly petiolate, the lower opposite ; flowers 

 racemose, about l in. long ; pedicels mostly \-l- in. long ; racemes 

 rather lax, elongated ; calyx narrow, minutely glandular, 5-partite, 

 about l in. long or rather more ; segments linear, obtuse, erect ; 

 corolla-tube slender, equalling the calyx or somewhat exceeding it, 

 minutely glandular outside ; limb spreading, about ^ in. in diam. ; 

 lobes rounded, bifid at the apex and incise ; throat glabrous, some- 

 what corrugated; stamens and style included within the corolla- 

 tube ; capsules shortly oval, glabrous, rfru i"- ^ong. 



Westbkn Ekgion : Little Namaqualand ; without precise locality, M'httc- 

 h ead ! 



^ 9. M. altissima (Linn. f. Suppl. 286); an erect herb, peren- 

 nial or annual, more or less woody at the base, not glossy, usually 

 divided at or near the base, more or less viscid-pubescent with whitish 

 slender or weak hairs and small sessile scattered glands, 9-24 m. 

 high, leafy about the base ; stems or branches erect or ascending, 

 scape-like, leafless or with only a few narrow leaves ; lower leaves 

 spathulate, sublinear or elliptic-oblong, obtusely narrowed or nearly 

 rounded, attenuate towards the base, denticulate or nearly entire, 

 1-3 in, loDg, \~\ in. broad; petioles up to ^l-li in. long; "PP^'^" 

 leaves alternate, entire or subentire, linear, smaller, sessile ; flowers 

 \-\ in. long, numerous, racemose, pubescent; racemes glandular- 

 pubescent, short and dense in flower, elongating in fruit, |-8 in. 



