﻿Manulea.] sckophdlai{iace^ (fliern). 243 



striate, somewhat hispid ; leaves scattered, subalteroate, longer than 

 the internodes, erect, petiolate, obtuse, serrate, hispid, the lower 

 lanceolate-oblong, the upper linear ; spike terminal ; bracts solitary, 

 linear, obtuse, somewhat hispid, entire, persistent, longer than the 

 calyx ; flowers subalternate ; calyx 5-partite, persistent, ]. in. long ; 

 segments subulate, concave, pubescent ; corolla yellow ; tube ventri- 

 cose at the top, pubescent, y^ i^- lo"o "J* "lore ; lobes spreading, 

 i-i in. long. 



South Africa : Avithout locality, Jarosz. 



XXII. STJTERA, Roth. 



Calyx 5-lobed, usually 5-partite ; lobes or segments sublinear 

 lanceolate or rarely ovate, usually more or less imbricate in bud, not 

 membranous. Corolla tubular, not spurred at the base, deciduous ; 

 tube long or short, exserted or shorter than the calyx, cylindrical or 

 funnel-shaped, nearly straight or towards the apex more or Itss 

 curved ; throat more or less dilated or scarcely so, sometimes gibbous ; 

 limb spreading, regular or bilabiate ; lobes entire or shortly bifid or 

 emarginate at the apex, equal or nearly so, imbricate in bud, two 

 posterior exterior. Stamens 4, didynamous, exserted or the two 

 posterior or all of them included ; filaments filiform, inserted in the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers reniform, 1 -celled by confluence of the cells, 

 all perfect. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, included or exserted, 

 slightly dilated upwards ; stigma obtuse ; ovules numerous. Fruit 

 capsular, septicidal ; valves cleft at the apex, Seeds numerous, 

 I'ugose, 



Herbs or small shrubs, annual or perennial, glabrous, pubescent or hisf)i<l, 

 sometimea viscid, often turning blackish when dried ; leaves mostly opposite, 

 sometimes subtending abbreviated shoots, simple, more or less toothed or sub- 

 entire ; flowers axillary or arranged in terminal simple or rarely compound 

 cymes or spikes ; bracts not adhering along the pedicels, small or, in the case of 

 some species (with scarcely imbricate calyx-segments) large. 



DiSTRiB. Species about 115, mostly natives of South Africa, a Cow in Tropical 

 Africa, and one species peculiar to the Canary Islands. 



The following sections are generally adopted from Eugl. Bot. Jaliib. xxiii. 4U2, 

 493, where Diels proposed them for Chcenoaloiiia, uuder wbicli genus he included 

 IjVperia and Si)hcnandra. 



Lyperia diandra, E. Me}er, Hort. Uegiomout. Scuiinif. 1848, 5, adn., is 

 unknown to me. 



Section 1. Bbeviflor.*;. Flowers nearly regular; corolla-tube short, not 

 or but little exceeding the caly.x ; stamens often exserted ; perennial plants or 

 undershrubs. 



* Leaves entire or moderately toothed, not incise- 

 dentate nor pinnatifid : 

 Calyx -lobes ovate : 



Leaves ovate, petiolate _ ■•• (1) platysepala. 



Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, sessile or 



subsessile (2) patriotica. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, sublinear or obovate : 

 t Leaves obovate, broadly ovate or sub- 

 rotund : 



Corolla-tube funnel-shaped: 

 B 2 



