﻿Manulea.] scrophulartacej: (Hiern). 235 



161. Vei-befiia indica languinosafl. ruhente, BarthoJ. Acta Tlafn. ii. 

 57, v'ith plate. 



Vab. /3, Turritis (Hiorn) ; leaves obovate, often doubly serrate ; corona-tuhe 

 very slender ; lobes narrowly oval. Manulea Turritis, Herb. Banks, cm Benth. 

 in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 383. M. turrita, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 366. 



Coast Region, between 50 and 2O0O ft. : Tnlbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh 

 (Roodc Zand), Thunberg .' Cape Div.; near Capetown, Bolus, 27!)6 1 Harverj, 

 611! WoUey Dod, 135! Simons Bay, Milne, 192! Wright ! Hout Ba,y, Oalpin, 

 4389! Muizenberg, Wallich, 378 I Cape Flats, EcUon <^ Zeyher, 609 ! Drige, 

 7920ft! between Capetown and tbc Drakcnstecn Mountains, TTiMnberi; .' Krniixs, 

 1626. Worcester Div.; Dufoits Kloof, Drego. Vae. : Tulbagh Div.; New 

 Kloof, Drep'e, 7922 ! Steendal. Pa^pe / Tulbagb, JBciZoji .' Mitchells Pass, J5oZ«s, 

 214 ! ScJilecMer, 8959 ! Ceres Div. ; near Ceres, Bolus, 9180 ! Worcester Div. ; 

 bills near Breede River, Bolus, 2796a! 



The Manulea rubra of Thunberg's berbarium is a less shaggy form, and tbe 

 M. hirta of the same herbarium is a more shaggy form, the latter resembling 

 Bentham's M. Turritis. 



21, M. obtusa (Hiern) ; suffruticose, thinly tomentose, with soft 

 whitish hairs, branched, leafy ; branches decumbent or ascending ; 

 cauline leaves obovate-oblong or -linear, obtuse, narrowed toAvards the 

 base, quite entire or repand, a— f in. long, ^^^■i in. broad, sessile or 

 the lower shortly petiolate, opposite^ except the uppermost ; flowers 

 thyrsoid, -J-^ in. long; pedicels very short; thyrsus simple or 

 branched, dense in flower, rather lax in fruit, elongated ; calyx 

 deeply 5-lobed, puberulous or nearly glabrous, yV~tV ^^- '*^"? '^ 

 flower, i-i in. long in fruit ; segments linear-oblong, obtuse ; 

 corolla-tube nearly glabrous below, puberulous above outside, straight 

 or somewhat curved about the throat ; throat naked ; lobes spread- 

 ing, oval, obtuse, entire, yV~TV ^"- ^^^S > stamens and style included; 

 capsule l-i in. long. 



South Africa : without locality, Masson ! 



22. M. cephalotes (Thunb. Prodr. 101) ; a rigid herb, perennial, 

 branched at and near the crown of the woody rootstock, somewhat 

 glaucous, glabrous or very nearly so, 1-2^- ft. high ; branches erect 

 or ascending, rather slender, straight, virgato, leafy below, mostly 

 simple up to the inflorescence ; leaves oblanceolate or oblong-linear, 

 obtuse, attenuate at the base, shortly petiolate or subsessile, strongly 

 toothed or pinnatifid or the upper nearly entire, more or less erect, 

 f- 1 J in. long, J-i in. broad, alternate; flowers numerous or several, 

 cymose, at first capitate-fastigiate, afterwards spicate-fastigiate, \-^ 

 in. long, usually _^-} in. long, dusky; ultimate pedicels very short; 

 cymes often pyramidally divided, 2-18 in. long or mora ; bracts 

 sublinear, small, longer than the pedicels ; calyx about i in. long, 

 deeply 5-lobed; segments linear-subulate, obtuse, ciliolate ; corolla- 

 tube i-i in. long, glandular-puberulous outside ; limb spreading, 

 about \ in. in diam., glabrous above ; lobes oval, obtuse, about 

 iV in. long ; throat glabrous ; stamens all included ; capsules 

 ovoid or ellipsoidal, glabmu.s, ,\,-,', in. long. Fl. Cap. ed. 



