﻿Mamdea.] scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 241 



lax except near the top, |-4i in. long; bracts short; calyx about 

 tV in. long, deeply 5-lobed, minutely or obsoletely glandular ; seg- 

 ments linear-oblong, obtuse, somewhat concave ; corolla-tube slender, 

 obsoletely glandular outside ; limb more or less spreading ; lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, yV— s i"- long ; throat minutely glandular ; anthers 

 glabrous, one pair near the mouth of the corolla, rather shorter 

 than the other which ia lower down in the throat ; capsules ovoid, 

 glabrous, J^ in. long. 



Kalahari Region : Gri({ualand West ; without precise locality, on flats where 

 water occasioually lodges, Mrs. Barher, 7 ! 



■^ 32. M. Cheiranthiis (Linn. Mant. 88) ; an erect or ascending 

 herb, annual, puberulous or nearly glabrous, branched at or near the 

 base, 1-15 in. high ; branches decumbent or ascending, leafy at the 

 base, usually leafless above ; leaves ovate, elliptical or obovate, 

 obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, incise-serrate, dentate or rej^and, 

 rather thin, J-2 in. long, l-l in. broad ; petioles up to ^-1 in. long; 

 flowers numerous or several, thyrsoid, about } in. long, disagreeable 

 to smell ; pedicels short, puberulous, subfasciculate, usually a few 

 together ; fascicles arranged in terminal more or less interrupted 

 oblong cymes often more than half the height of the plant ; 

 bracts sublinear and resembling the calyx-segments, subulate ; calyx 

 deeply 5-lobed, puberulous, t-i in. long; segments sublinear, obtuse, 

 erect ; corolla uniformly gamboge colour or orange ; tube glandular- 

 puberulous outside, scarcely exceeding the calyx, slender, whitish at 

 the base, tawny at the apex ; limb deeply 5-lobed ; lobes unequal, 

 subulate, yo-|^ in. long, tawny; throat glabrous; stamens and style 

 included ; capsules ovoid, glabrous, ^-^ in. long. Thunh. Prodr. 

 101, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. ill; Benth. in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. 

 i. 384, and in DC. Prodr. x. 366; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835. 

 M. rhynchantha, Link, Enimi. Hort. Berol. ii. 142 ; Link ex Jarosz, 

 Pi. Nov. Cap. 17. M. divaricata, Ecklon in PI. Exsicc. Cap.n. 502, 

 not of TTiunberg. M. Gheiranthus, var. jS, ftorihunda, Benth. ex 

 Drege, Gat. PI. Exsicc. Afr. Audr. 4. Lobelia Gheiranthu,s, Linn. 

 Sp.Pl.ed. 1,933. Nemia Gheiranthus, Berg. PL Gap. IGO. N. 

 capensis, J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. ii. 936. Gheiranthus africana 

 Jlore luteo, Gommel. Hort. Med. Amstel. Rar. ii. 83, t. 42. 



Coast Region, on the flats and hills below 1000 ft. : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; 

 Ebenezar, Dreje, 3137a ! Clanwilliam Div.; Olifants River and Brakfontein, 

 Ecklon, 331 ! Malinesbury Div. ; near Groene Kloof (Mature) Bolus, 1313 I Berg 

 River, Ecklon, 309! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, near Tulbagh, MacOwan in 

 JTerh. Norm. Aust.- Afr., 933 \ Steendal, Pappe ! Cape Div.; various localities 

 around Cape Town, TlmrLbera ! Pappe! Harvey! Balm, 27ii5 1 4780 f Krauss, 

 1632- -- - ^^-. .^- r^„. 7, ..-i.M 



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Stell ^ 



.' Caledon Div. ; near Lowr^s. _- , 

 Hessaquas Kloof, Zeyher, 3507 ! Riversdale Div. ; near Milkwood Fontein, 

 Galpin, 4388 ! Mossel Bay Div. ; near the landing-place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 

 6240 ! Knysna Div.; Plettenberg Bay, Bowie ! 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand, between 1000 and 2000 ft. j near 

 Mierenkasteel, Drege .' Modderfontein, Drege, 31376 ! 



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