﻿238 SCROPHULARIACE^ (Hiem). [Manuka. 



broad, sometimes wanting ; flowers numerous, thyrsoid, glandular- 

 puberulous, subfasciculate, ^-^ in. long; ultimate pedicels very 

 short ; bracts sublinear, small, about equalling the calyx ; cymes 

 glandular-puberulous, thyrsoid or paniculate, terminal, oblong or 

 pyramidal, interrupted, 2-18 in. long ; calyx about /^-rV i^- ^'^^^S 

 in flower, i in. long in fruit, deeply 5-lobed, papillose-puberalous ; 

 segments sublinear, very obtuse ; corolla orange or pink ; tube 

 rather fleshy and slender, papillose-glandular outside ; limb spread- 

 ing, smooth and glabrous above, about Jr in. in diam. ; lobes oval, 

 obtuse ; throat glabrous ; on ) pair of anthers appearing at the mouth 

 of the corolla ; style included ; capsules ellipsoidal, glabrous or 

 nearly so, xV-s ^^- long. DC. Prodr. x. 365. M, natalensis, 

 Bernh. ex Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835. Nemia jparviflora, Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 758. 



Coast Region : Port Elizabeth Div. ; Walmer, near Port Elizabeth, M/s.s 

 E. M. Kensit in Herb. Bolus, 6486 ! 



Kalahari Region -. Orange River Colony ; neur Bethulie, Flanagan, 1505 '. 

 Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton ! Transvaal ; near Pretoria, 

 4100 ft., JfacLeain Herb. BoIms, 5743 ! between Bronkhorst Spruit and Middel- 

 burg, Wilms, 1083 ! African Hoogde, Burhe ! 



Eastern Region, from 100 to 4000 ft. : Tembuland ; near Umtata River, 

 Drege, 7919 ! Natal ; among reeds near tlic Umlaas River, Krauss, 408 ! Inanda, 

 Wood, 1051 ! near Durban, Gueinzius. 152 ! Sanderson, 131 1 Wood, 7934 ! 

 Sirutliers! near Lanibonjwa River, TFood, 3575 ! near Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 

 2186 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 15 ! 541 ! 



Also in tropical Africa. 



27. M. rigida (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 382) ; a 

 rigid herb, scabrid with short stiff patent hairs, apparently perennial, 

 divaricately branched, grey, moderately leafy throughout, 2-3 ft. 

 high, erect ; stem-leaves lanceolate, incise-dentate or pinnatifid or 

 sometimes subeutire, ohtuse, wedge-shaped to the sessile or shortly 

 petiolate base, i-li in. long, J^-i i"- broad, usually more or less 

 adpressed to. the stem; midrib prominent beneath; flowers about 

 \ in. long, cymose, subfasciculate, numerous ; ultimate pedicels very 

 short ; bracts subulate or lanceolate- linear, exceeding the pedicels ; 

 cymes elongate, subspicate, often divaricately divided ; calyx hispidu- 

 lous, deeply 5-lobed, about ^ in. long ; segments linear-subulate, pro- 

 longed ia fruit ; corolla-tube scabrid-puberulous, about f\j in. long ; 

 limb spreading, about ^ in. in diam., slightly puberulous above ; lobes 

 broadly oval, rounded at the apex ; stamens all included ; capsules 

 ellipsoidal, J^-v in. long. DC. Prodr. x. 364 ; 0. Kuntze, Bev. 

 Gen. Pi. iii. ii. 236. 



Coast Region: Vaurhynsdorp Div.; Wind Hoek, 1000 ft., SchlecUer, 

 8350! Clanwilliam Div, ; Brack Fontein, Ecldon! Wunperthal, Wurmb in Herb. 

 Brhje, 7915 ! 



Centkal Region : Aliwal Norlh Div. ; Aliwal Nortli, Kuntze. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; Bcvlhj in Herh. Bolus, 6392 I 



"> 28. M. tomentosa (Linn. Mant. alt. 420) ; a hoary shrub or 

 undershrub, finely tomentose, branched, 6-30 in. high, perennial ; 



