﻿240 SCROPHOLA.RIACEJ: (Hiem). [Manidea. 



deeply 5-lobed, Jj i^- lo°g io flower, ^ in. long in fruit; segments 

 subulate from an ovate base ; corolla orange ; tube slender, glandular- 

 pubescent, pallid below ; limb patent, glabrous above, -^-^ in. in diam. ; 

 lobes unequal, lanceolate or linear-subulate, acute or bifid, f 2-~i ^'^• 

 long ; throat naked ; stamens all included ; style included ; capsules 

 oval-oblong, minutely glandular, or nearly glabrous, Yo~r ^^- ^^^E- 

 DC. Prodr. x. 366. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; on rocks iu Lange Valley, 2Iassoti .' Cape 

 Div.; on hills near Capetown, EcMon, 356 ! 

 This species is very close to Jf. virgata. 



30. M. virgata (Thunb. Prodr. 101) ; a perennial herb, slightly 

 shrubby below, with quite short whitish pubescence ; stem erect, 

 short, much branched ; branches intricate, divaricate at the base, 

 paniculate, elongated, f-l^ ft. long, filiform, sub terete, striate, 

 moderately leafy ; branchlets subcapillary, flexuous, closely puberu- 

 lous, 3-9 in. long ; leaves opposite, patent, broadly ovate or elliptical, 

 obtusely pointed or subacute, abruptly narrowed or subcuneate at 

 the base, strongly toothed or incise-dentate, puberulous, thin, i—^ m. 

 long, -}-| in. broad ; petioles up to I— I in. long ; flowers rather 

 numerous, subthyrsoid, about |— i- in. long ; pedicels very short, 

 shortly pubescent, subfasciculate, fascicles 4f-l-fiowered and alter- 

 nately arranged in elongating slender flagelliform interrupted terminal 

 cymes 4-8 in. long ; bracts small, subulate, shortly pubescent ; lower 

 fascicles sometimes inserted in the axils of the small upper leaves ; 

 calyx shortly pubescent, deeply 5-lobed, ^V in. long in flower, 

 -rV-Y in. long in fruit ; segments sublinear, scarcely acute ; corolla 

 orange ; tube rather pallid, pubescent, slender ; limb patent, i-y in- 

 in diam., subglabrous above, pubescent beneath ; lobes lanceolate- 

 subulate, acute, J^—i in. long ; throat naked ; stamens and style 

 included ; capsules oval, glabrous or nearly so, about J- in, long. 

 Fl Cap. ed. ScJmlt. 470; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i- 

 384, and in DC. Prodr. x. 366. M. exaltata, Herb. Banks. e» 

 Benth., II. cc. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg < , 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; on rocks at Hcorelosement, Masson . 



Olifauts River uud Brack Fontein, Ecklon! Vojjel Fouteiu, 1300 ft., Schlechter, 



8512! 



31. M. campestris (Hiern) ; a nearly glabrous herb, leafy and 

 densely branclied at the crown of the root, perhaps perennial, 3-9 in- 

 high ; stem comparatively thick, very short ; branches several or 

 numerous, scape-like, erect or ascending, rather slender; leaves 

 radical or subradical, spathulate or obovate, rounded or very obtuse, 

 attenuate into the petiole, repand or sparingly toothed, minutely or 

 obsoletely glandular, 1-1} in. long, yV-a in. broad ; petioles }-ll- 1»- 

 long; flowers several or numerous, spicate-racemose, about } in. long J 

 pedicels very short or up to 4 in. long ; racemes not quite simple, 



