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10. S. polysepala (Hiern) ; a shrub, 1-2 ft. high or more, erect, 

 apparently perennial ; branches ascending, subvirgate, papillose- 

 seabrid, not pubescent, somewhat shining, rigid, moderately robust, 

 leafy ; branchlets opposite or alternate, few ; leaves opposite or the 

 upper alternate, oval, elliptical or obovate-oblong, obtuse, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, sessile, irregularly crenulate or denticulate, rigidly 

 membranous, minutely ghindular-scabrid, very narrowly revolute on 

 the margin, rather pallid beneath, 1-1 1 in. long, |-^r in. broad; 

 Uowers racemose, numerous, about l-} in. long ; racemes terminal, 

 elongating, dense at least above, 3-6 in. long, simple or somewhat 

 compound ; bracts like the leaves, rather smaller and narrower, 

 denticulate or entire ; pedicels V-|- in. long, firm, glandular-papillose ; 

 calyx glandular-hispid, l-l in. long, mostly 8-cleft about |-way 

 down ; lobes lanceolate or obtusely subulate, erect, persistent ; 

 corolla-tube broadly funnel-shaped, ^— / ,; in. long, nearly straight, 

 minutely glandular outside; limb about J in. in diam., spreading; 

 lobes oval, I in. long, rounded, entire ; one pair of stamens exserted, 

 the other included ; style exserted ; capsule ovoid-oblong, pallid, 

 minutely glandular, l in. long. 



Coast IIegion : Koiugha Div, ; flat near the mouth of the Kei River, 200 ft., 

 Flanagan, 1061 ! 



11. S. calycina (O. Kuntze, Rev, Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; suffruticose, 

 shortly and sparingly pilose or nearly glabrous, about 1 ft. high, 

 erect, loosely branched from the base ; branches opposite ov alternate, 

 ascending ; branchlets leafy ; leaves opposite, oblong or sublinear, 

 obtuse, narrowed towards the base, sessile or subsessile, glabrous or 

 shortly glandular-puberulous, dentate, ^-1 in. long, yV—l i"- broad; 

 Uowers numerous, racemose, }—} in. long ; racemes terminal, rather 

 dense at least above, simple or slightly compound ; pedicels rather 

 slender, mimitcly glandular-puberulous, mostly yV -e i"- '^"S ' 

 bract basal, lanceolate or linear, small ; calyx deeply 6-8-lobed, 

 mostly i^^.~l- in. long; lobes linear-subulate, minutely glandular- 

 puberulous ; corolla-tube broadly funnel-shaped, minutely glandular 

 outside, about -J in. long, straight; lobes rounded, about yV i"- ^^^S > 

 stamens didynamous, glabrous, one pair exserted. Chcciiostorna 

 ralycinum, Benth. in Hook. Comjj. Bot. Mag. i. 374, and in DC. Prodr. 

 X. 354. Choenostoma cahjcinum, Dre(/e, Zwei PJlanzengeogr. Bocu- 

 mente, 145, 147, 7iot 47. 



Vak. jS, laxiflora (Hiern); lower pedicels -^-^ in. long ; calyx i i". long; 

 lobes narrowly liinceolate -linear, more subulate. 'C. cct^yctiiuiJi, far. /3, laxiflora, 

 Benth., U. cc, partly. 



South Africa : Var. )3 : without precise locality, Gill ! 



Easieen Region, between 500 and 2000 ft.: Transkei; between Gekau 

 (Gcua) River and Bashee River, Drege, 4860! Var. /3 : near the Bashee 

 River, Urese, 4732! 



12. S. prociunbens (O. Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; suffruti- 

 cose, apparently perennial, prostrate, thick, woody and much 



