﻿Manulea.] scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 231 



to 2-li in. long ; flowers numerous, thyrsoid, ^-l in. long, glandular- 

 puberulous, white, brown, purple or buff, cynies soon elongating in 

 flower, oblong in fruit, glandular-puberulous, often pyramiilally 

 divided interrupted and up to 1} ft. long or more ; ultimate pedicels 

 very short, subfasciculate ; bracts sublinear or linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse ; calyx y\y-i in. long, shortly or deeply 5-eleft ; lobes at first 

 ovate-acuminate, oblong or sablanceolate, ^-V-rV i"- ^^ng, mem- 

 branously connected at the base, afterwards deeper especially in fruit, 

 somewhat glandular-puberulous; corolla-tube }-l in. long, rather 

 slender, somewhat gibbous about the top, glandular-puberulous ; 

 limb spreading, -J-i in. in diam., smooth and glabrous above; throat 

 glabrous ; lobes oval-oblong, very obtuse, equal or nearly so, -/;,— tV i^- 

 long; stamens all included; capsule ovoid or ellipsoidal, glabrous, 

 i-J- in. long. DC. Prodr. x. 364^ partly ; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 

 iii. ii. 235. 



Coast Eegion : Eastern frontier, Mr-s. Barber! 



Centbal Region, on mountains at 3000-6500 ft. : Somerset Div. {Bovjler ?) 

 38! 41! G raail:" Reinet Div. ; Compass Berg, _BoZms, 1844 ! Shaw! Murraysburs^ 

 Div. ; Kourleveld Mountain, Tyson, 121 ! near Murraysburg, Tyson in Herb. 

 Bolus, 6490 ! Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuweveld Mountains, near Beaufort, Drege. 

 Wodeliouse Div. ; nortliern slopes of Andries Berg, Galpin, 5657 ; Stormberg 

 Range, Dy-ege/ Aliwal North Div.; Witteberg Range, Dreffe ! Aliwal North, 

 Kuntze. Albert Div. ; Mooi Plaats, Drege ! Brougliton, near Molteno, Flana- 

 gan, 1622 ! 



Kaiahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Great Vet River, Burlce ! and 

 without precise locality, Cooper, 2863 ! Caledon River, Zeyher, 1281 ! near Uarri- 

 smith. Wood, 4808 ! Hesters Vlei, near Witzies Hoek, Bolus, 8229 ! Transvaal ; 

 near Kloete, Wilms, 1049 ! near Middleburg, Bolus, 7669 ! 



Eastern Re&ion : Transkei; near the Ibomo River, BuivTcer, 783! Griqua- 

 land East; Mount Carrie, Tyson, 1370! Natal; Liddesdale, Wood, 3935 bis! 

 Drakensberg Range, Evans, 381 ! Nottingham Road, Wood, 4397 ! near Catos 

 Ridge, Schlechter, 3257 ! 



14. M. corjrmbosa (Linn, f . Suppl. 286) ; an erect herb, annual, 

 minutely glandular-puberulous, often branched and leafy at the base, 

 6-12 in. high ; stem or branches erect or ascending, bearing a few 

 leaves above the base, angular ; radical leaves rosulate, obovate or 

 oblanceolate, rounded, attenuate at the base, puberulous, not very 

 thin, more or less strongly dentate or denticulate, .^-1.} in. long, 

 i-~} in. broad ; petioles }—} in. long, dilated towards the base ; stem- 

 leaves narrowly oval or elliptical, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 more or less dentate, subsessile, i-1 in. long, -,V-or_in- broad ; flowers 

 thyrsoid-racemose or subspicate, numerous, J— J in. long ; pedicels 

 short, up to -i- in. long, 1-3 together, subfasciculate or on short 

 subsidiary spikelets ; thyrsus short and very dense at first, elongating 

 and at length laxer below, ^-5^ in. long ; bracts small, sublinear, 

 shortly adhering to the base of" the pedicels, the lower larger and 

 ^ubfoliaceous ; calyx about -/.-?; in. long in flower, l—} in. long in 

 fruit, 5-eleft about half-Avay down and in fruit splitting down the 

 back and front ; corolla-tube slender, papillose-puberulous outside, 

 somewhat curved above, yVl in. long ; limb spreading, about } in. 

 in diam. ; lobes rounded, entire, J~i in. long; throat naked; stamens 



