﻿Mnnnlea.] scrophulariacej; (Hiern). 233 



17. M. laxa (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 179); rootBtock 

 perennial or perhaps sometimes annual; stem divided at the crown 

 of the root or simple, erect or ascending, minutely puberulous, leafy 

 at the base, subglaucous, 6-30 in. high, scarcely glossy, rather slender 

 and rigid ; lower leaves linear-spathulate, obtuse, attenuate at the 

 base, entire or denticulate, -^-1} in. long, ^V^VV ^d- broad ; petioles 

 up to i-1 in. long; upper leaves few or several, narrow, smaller, 

 subsessile; flowers -|-|- in. long, subspicate, numerous, distant 

 except towards the top of the spike, subsessile or very shortly 

 pedicellate ; racemes spike-like, simple or nearly so or compound, 

 lA-18 in. long, terminating the stem and branches ; pedicels ■^\— fV 

 in. long or shorter, bracteate at the base ; bracts falling short of 

 the calyx; calyx rather deeply 5-lobed, -iV~tV i^^- ^ong, minutely 

 glandalar-puberulous ; segments obtuse, linear-oblong ; corolla-tube 

 slender, glandular-papillose above outside the throat, glabrous or 

 nearly so below, much exceeding the calyx ; tliroat glabrous or 

 minutely papillose; limb spreading, -^--^ in. in diam. or a little 

 more ; lobes oblong or oval-oblong, entire or emarginate, obtuse, 

 y~-Jg- in. long; stamens included; capsules ovoid, apiculate with 

 the remains of the style, about I-} in. long, glabrous or minutely 

 papillose. 



Coast Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; at the foot of mountains near Wind 

 Hoek, 600 ft., Sclilecliter, 8363 ! Ceres Div. ; Ceres, Guthrie, 2194 ! 



Centbal Region : Ceres Div,, between 2000-4500 ft. ; Cold Bokkeveld, 

 between Ceres and Karroo Poort, Bolus, 2616 ! and near Klyn Vley, Schlechter, 

 10195 ! 



18. M. leiostachys (Benfch. in . Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 383); 

 a rigid herb, almost shrubby at the base, perennial, erect, puberu- 

 lous below, glabrous above, somewhat shining, 1-2 ft. high, leafy 

 below ; branchlets slender, smooth, rather glossy, pale green, bearing 

 but few leaves, mostly nearly glabrous ; leaves opposite or alternate, 

 narrowly elliptical, oblanceolate or sublinear, obtuse, attenuate at the 

 base,' sessile, subsessile or shortly petiolatc, more or less toothed or 

 entire, more or less pubescent or glabrescent, J -3 in. long, ^.^-^ in. 

 broad; petioles ranging up to Ij in. long; flowers ^J-J- in. long, 

 numerous, thyrsoid-paniculate, subfasciculate or not crowded ; 

 ultimate pedicels very short or slender and -j'^-,\ in. long ; bracts 

 small, subulate or sublinear; cymes oblong or pyramidal, nearly 

 glabrous, 3-8 in. long, more or less branched; calyx deeply 5-lobed, 

 tWV in- long ; segments sublinear, ciliolate, obtuse ; corolla-tube 

 slender, glabrous outside except near the mouth or throat where small 

 glands are more or less present ; limb patent, symmetrical, about 

 -} in. in diam., smooth above, orange-coloured ; lobes oval, obtuse, 

 entire, about ^V in. long ; mouth glabrous ; stamens included ; 

 capsules ovoid,^ glabrous, about J in. long. DC. Prodr. x. 365; 

 0. Knntze, Eeo. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 235. M. ieucostachys, Drlge, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 73, 115, 201. 



Coast Region, between 1000-4000 ft.: Clanwilliara Div.; Cederborg 



