﻿Manuka.] scboPhdlaeiace^ (Hiern). 239 



branches ascending or decumbent, leafy nearly or quite up to the 

 inflorescence ; leaves opposite or the upper occasionally alternate, 

 finely obovate or oblanceolate, rounded, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 submembranous or rather fleshy, finely tomentose on both faces, 

 pallid, greenish-hoary, densely glandular-hispidulous, serrulate- 

 crenate, petiolate or subsessile, |-1-J in. long, -^-|- in. broad ; petioles 

 ranging up to i in. long ; flowers ^\ in. long, sessile or subsessile 

 in clusters, numerous ; clusters sessile or subsessile in terminal 

 thyrsoid spike-like racemes, 1 in. long, dense above and alternate, 

 interrupted below ; bracts narrow, about ~jj in. long ; calyx about 

 "To in. long in flower, rather larger in fruit, hoary and finely tomen- 

 tose or hispid outside, glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed ; segments 

 broadly linear, obtuse, shortly ciliolate ; corolla orange or yellow ; 

 tube I" in. long, J^^ in. broad about the middle, o\- in. broad about 

 the apex, 2\r ^^- broad about the base, hoary, finely glandular-tomen- 

 tose outside except towards the base, nearly glabrous inside except 

 in the somewhat pubescent throat ; limb spreading, about -} in. in 

 diam. ; lobes 5, oval, entire, rounded, finely glandular-tomentose on 

 the back at least about the base, nearly glabrous on the front ; 

 stamens 4, glandular-puberulous, included, upper pair inserted on 

 the upper part of the corolla-tube and Avith very small pallid anthers, 

 lower pair also pallid inserted above the middle of the tube and with 

 oval-oblong anthers, -/.^ in. long ; filaments very short ; style nearly 

 but not quite glabrous, yV ^"- ^^^^o 5 ovary nearly glabrous ; ovules 

 numerous, small ; capsule ovoid, ^ in. long. Jacq. Ic. iii. 7, t- 498 ; 

 Meerhurg, PL Mar. t, 8 ; Lam. 111. t. 520, fig. 1 ; Thunl. Prodr. 

 101, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 470; Weftstein in 3ngl. Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 3 B. 68, fig. 31, A~P.; Link ^ Otto, Ic. Pi. Sel. t. 11); Bentli. 

 in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 383, and in DC. Prodr. x. 365, not 307, 

 n. 30 ; nor Bot. Mag. t. 322 ; Krauns in Plora, 1844, 835. ^Selago 

 tomentosa, Linn. PI. Afr. Bar. 13 ; Amoan. Acad. vi. 90. 



Coast Region, below 500 ft.: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Mac GiUlvmy, 

 623! Milne, 168! seashore or near it oa both sides of tlie Cijic Peniiisulii, 

 Thunherg .' Mac Gillivray, 622 ! Bohis, 3060 ! Drer/e, 1318 ! Kxauss, IVolley 

 Dod, 1654, ! Harvey ! Pappe ! Wallich, 376 ! Paardeu Island, IFoUoj Dod, 

 3152 ! Stelleubosch Uiv. j Hottentots Holhind, ZeyUer, 348 ! Ecklon, 30 ! 



According to Thunberg the inflorescence has a faint scent of sage. 



29. M. stellata (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Jlot. Mag. i. 384); 

 a perennial herb^ somewhat shrubby below, with short whitish rather 

 soft pubescence ; stem ascending, sparingly branched ; branches 

 terete, striate, lax, moderately leafy, 1-1 J ft. long ; leaves mostly 

 opposite, patent, broadly ovate, obtusely pointed, broad near the 

 base, incise-serrate, shortly petiolate, J-§ in. long, \-l in. broad, 

 thin, pubescent; flowers numerous, thyrsoid, about \-\ in. long; 

 pedicels very short, pubescent, fasciculate, about 3-7 together, 

 fascicles in oblong interrupted terminal cymes, 3-12 in. long ; bracts 

 small, subulate, pubescent ; lower fascicles somewhat short and 

 pedunculate in the axils of the upper leaves ; calyx pubescent, rather 



