﻿232 scEOPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). [ManuJea. 



and style included; capsules compressed, ovoid, obtuse, glabrous, 

 ^ in. long ; stamens didynamous, glabrous ; upper pair of anthers 

 very small, lower pair shortly oblong, -/„ in. long. Thunh. Prodr. 

 102, ancl Fl. Gap. ed. Schult. 472, not of Benth. 



South Africa : without locality, 'Siven ! TImnherg ! 



Coast Kegion: Malmesbury Div. ; ucar Saldanha Bay, Wasson! 



15. M. minor (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 478); an annual 

 herb, glabrous or puberulous, 3-9 in. high ; leaves radical, rosulate, 

 obovate, obtuse, attenuate at the base, repand or sparingly dentate, 

 i-1 in. long, i-f in. broad ; petioles -i-| in. lojig ; stems several 

 from the crown of the root, scape-like, erect or ascending, naked or 

 occasionally bearing 1 or 2 leaves ; racemes not quite simple, sub- 

 capitate in flower, more or less elongated in fruit ; pedicels about 

 i in. long ; flowers ^- in. long ; calyx-segments linear or linear-oblong, 

 -j3^ in. long ; corolla-tube about twice as long as the calyx, minutely 

 or obsoletely glandular outside ; lobes obovate, -2V~tV ^'^- ^'^°^' 

 gV-aV ill- broad ; throat naked ; stamens and style included ; cap- 

 sules ovoid, obtuse or very shortly 2-horned, tV~i" ^^- -^^^oi tV~tV i^^* 

 broad. 



Coast Region, between 700 aud 30OO ft. : Piquetberg Div. ; near Porter- 

 ville, SchlecMer, 4914 ! Worcester Div. ; Hex River Valley, Tyson, 633 ! and in 

 MacOwan c^ Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 668! Wolley Dad, 4009a! Bolus, 

 7887 ! Caledon Div. ; Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3499 ! near Hermanus- 

 peters Fontein, Bohis, 9856 ! near Houw Hoek, Bolus, 9920 ! 



16. M. androsacea (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 381); an annual herb, erect, nearly glabrous, somewhat 

 glossy, branched at or near the crown of the root, 4-12 in. high; 

 branches scape-like, erect or ascending ; upper branches few or none ; 

 leaves mostly radical or subradical and rosulate, obovate or oblanceo- 

 late, rounded, attenuate at the base, repand or crenulate-denticulate, 

 f-li-in. long, i-f in. broad ; petioles -J-l| in. longj upper leaves 

 few or none, smaller, narrow, subsessile ; fliowers thyrsoid, sub- 

 capitate, subsessile, -V-|- in. long, flesh-coloured ; thyrsus contracted, 

 dense and subhemispherical in flower, oblong in fruit, terminal, 

 ■|-2i in. long, about i in. in diam. ; pedicels very short, yV i°' ^°°^ 

 or shorter ; bracts sublinear, -^\ in. long or less ; calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, glabrous or shortly puberulous, -Jo"!" i^* ^*^^S'' segments 

 sublinear ; corolla glabrous or nearly so ; tube rather slender, J— 1 in. 

 long ; limb patent, about l~^ in. in diam. ; lobes obovate, rounded 

 at the apex, entire or retase ; throat naked ; capsules ellipsoidal, 

 glabrous or minutely glandular, -^-J- in. long, DC. Prodr. x. 

 363. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualaud ; in sandy places, near Noagas, 

 Drege, 3139a! near Eleven-Mile Station, Bolus, Herb. Norm. Just-Ajr., 

 666! 



According to Bentliam, II. cc, the flowers are nearly sessile, mostly form- 

 ing a compact head, which is sometimes elongated in the manner often ternieu 

 proliferous. 



