﻿250 scrophulariace;r (Hiern). [Sutera. 



2. S. patriotica (Hiern) ; a puberulous herb, rigid, branched, 

 erect or ancending, apparently annual, scarcely 1 ft. high ; branches 

 dense, opposite or alternate, erect-patent, ascending, greenish or 

 purplish, somewhat wiry, leafy below the inflorescence, subscabrid, 

 puberulous ; leaves opposite, often quasi -fasciculate, spreading or 

 erect-patent, oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse, somewhat narrowed to 

 the sessile or subsessile connate base, more or less toothed, thickly 

 herbaceous, viscid-scabrid or puberulous, ^-f in. long, -i\—} in. 

 broad ; flowers numerous, racemose, about -J— | in. long when 

 expanded ; pedicels opposite, verticillate or alternate, more or less 

 •spreading, firm, rather slender, glandular-puberulous, |-^ in. long> 

 bracteate at the base ; bracts small or the lower subfoliaceous ; 

 racemes terminal, numerous, 3-6 in. long ; calyx campanulate, 

 -y-j-xu i"- loiig ill flower, I-} in. long in fruit ; 5-cleft about half- 

 way down, viscid, glandular-puberulous ; lobes triangular-ovate, 

 subobtuse, erect ; corolla-tube cylindrical below, funnel-shapetl 

 above, about ,\-l- in. long ; limb spreading, blueish-purple 1, sprinkled 

 with small glands on tbe back; lobes rounded, about -^V-to j"- 

 long ; stamens and style all glabrous and exserted ; capsules ovoid- 

 oblong, glabrous, fV^t in- long. 



Central Region : Wodehouse Div, ; on tbe Storniberg Range, near Patriots 

 Klip, 5000 ft., Wood in Herh. Galpin, 2302! 



3. S. rotundifolia (O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii, 4G7) ; an under- 

 shrub, much branched, apparently 1-2 ft. high, glabrescent belnw, 

 glandular-puberulous above ; branches rather slender, leafy, elon- 

 gated, blanched ; lower ones procumbent or divaricate ; leaves 

 opposite, obovate or ovate-rotund, obtuse, wedge-shaped sometimes 

 abruptly so towards the base, coarsely dentate, rather thick, grey- 

 green, minutely glandular-pulverulent, y\-l in. long, yV"! '"• ^^^^^'^^ ' 

 petiole -,V~<; in- long, glandular-puberulous ; flowers -?,■ in. long, 

 axillary, solitary, or forming lax leafy terminal racemes, el)racteolate ; 

 peduncles glandular-puberulous, ^.-^ in. long; calyx ^-V in. long, 

 glandular-puberulous ; segments 5, narrowly lanceolate-linear, 

 pointed ; corolla-tube funnel-shaped, straight or nearly so, minutely 

 and rather sparingly glandular-puberulous outside, }-} in, long; 

 throat yellow within, very minutely sessile-glandular; limb some- 

 what oblique, J-f in. in diam., spreading; lobes purple within, 

 rounded, entire, y^-v i"« lo"g; stamens glabrous; filaments filiform, 

 longer than the corolla-tube ; anthers all alike, rounded ; style 

 inserted ; capsule ovoid, glabrous, J in. long. Clicenostomn rotnndi- 

 folium, Senth. in Hool\ Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 374, and in DC Prodr. 

 X. 3.54. 



South Africa -. without loeaUty, Drege, 4842 ! 



Central Begion, between 3000 aud 4000 ft. : Graaff Keinet Div. ; Sneemv- 

 berg Itmge, Bolus, 466! stony places at the foot of Oude Berg, MacOirnn- 

 Murraysburg Div. ; banks of streams near Murraysburg, Tii-<ton, 173! Colesbevf; 

 Div. ; between Oolesberg and Hanover, Bliaw ! 



4. S. pauciflora (O. Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; an under- 

 slirub ; stems procumbent, divaricately branched ; branches elon- 



