﻿256 scROPHULAiiiACE^ (Hiem). [Sutem. 



racemose, ebracteolate ; pedicels rather slender, terete, spreading, 

 viscid- pilose, bracteate, mostly alternate, ■^- J in. long ; bracts basal, 

 like the leaves but smaller, often acute ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, 

 persistent, very finely viscid-pilose outside, erect, yo~^ in. long ; 

 segments lanceolate or ovate, imbricate, subacute, the posterior one 

 sometimes larger ; corolla-tube very short, funnel-shaped or cylin- 

 drical, about equalling the calyx, whitish below, yellow above ; limb 

 rotate, flat, 5-cleft, blue, bright purplish-blue or pale rosy, i-^ in. in 

 diam. ; lobes obovate, rounded, entire, nearly equal, yV^i ^'^^ ^'^'^S' 

 the two posterior slightly shorter than the rest and exterior ; throat 

 or mouth saffron-yellow, wide, marked with 5 small humps ; stamens 

 exserted, all fertile, sometimes with a fifth barren ; filaments on the 

 upper part of the corolla-tube from greenish to yellowish, at first 

 erect, later inclined by opposite pairs above, filiform, two of them 

 dilated and compressed below the anthers ; anthers alike, reniform, 

 almost horseshoe-shaped when young ; pollen smooth, very small, 

 marked with 3 furrows ; style filiform, somewhat compressed above, 

 exceeding the corolla-tube, equalling the stamens, erect, slightly 

 pilose: stigma lanceolate, simple, blunt, compressed, glabrous; 

 capsule ovoid or oblong, pointed, ^-J in. long ; valves bifid ; seeds 

 numerous, small, subrotund. Manulea ccerulea, Linn. f. Suppl. 285 ; 

 Thunh. Prodr. 101, a7id Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 46*7. Buchnera 

 viscosa, Ait. Sort. Ketc. ed. i. ii. 357 ; Bot. Mag. t. 217. Erimis 

 viscosus, Salisb. Prodr. 94. M. rotata, Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. 

 iii. 706. M. viscosa, Willd. Enum. PL Hort. Berol. 653 ; Fritzsche, 

 Beitr. Kenntn. Pollen, 23, Splienandra viscosa, Benth. in Ifook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373, and in DC. Prodr. x. 353 ; Harv. Gen. 

 S. Afr. PI. ed. i. 259. Sphenandra coerulea, O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. 

 PI. iii. ii. 239. 



South Afbica : without locality, Thunherg ! Masson ! and cultivated 

 specimens. 



Coast Region, between 50 and 2000 ft.-. Worcester Div.; Hex River 

 Kloof and Valley, Brege, WoUey Bod, 4012 ! Bolus, 5213 ! Cape Div. ; near 

 Rondeboscb, Bolus, 8035 ! Swellendam Div. ; Tradouw Mountains, Drige, 548a ^ 

 near the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 1286! Riversdale Div.; Barrydale, 

 Oalpin, 4374! Mossel Bay Div; Gauritz River, Burchell, 6410! 6480! 

 Willowmore Div.; between Willovvmore and the Zwartberg Range, Bolus, 

 2414! Humansdorp Div.; by the Gamtoos River, Burchell, 4791! Komgha 

 Div. ; by the Kei River, Flanagan, 1082 ! 



Ckntkal Region : Wodehouse Div. ; valleys near the Stormberg Raug^ 

 Mrs. Barher .' 



Western Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Klyn Fontein, 1500 ft., ScUechter, 

 8259 ! 



Kalahaei Region : Orange River Colony ; by the Caledon River, Burke, 

 222! Sand River, Burke, 490! Zeyher, 1287! Mrs. Barber! near Vredefoit 

 Road, Barrett-Hamilton ! Transvaal ; near the Little Olifant River, ScUechter, 

 4018! near Bot&Ahelo, ScUechter, 4072! Magaliesberg, Zeyher, 1288! -B«rft«- 

 Bezuidenhout Valley. Rand, 726 ! , , 



Eastern Region : Natal; Moblamba Range, 5000-6000 ft., -SutfteWand. 

 Van Reenens Pass and Charlestown, Kuntze. 



16. S. palustris (Hiern) ; trichotomous, herbaceous above, erect, 

 closely branched, 1-2 ft. high ; branches opposite, numerous, erect- 



