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patent or ascending, glandular-puberulous or nearly glabrous, slender, 

 rigid, reddish-brown or pale green, leafy ; leaves opposite, often 

 psendo-fasciculate.. linear, obtuse, sessile, glandnlar-puberulous, 

 entire or subrepand or slightly toothed, re volute along the margins, 

 i-|- in. long ; flowers i-fr in. long, numerous, racemose, pink with 

 the eye yellow ; racemes terminal, not very dense, often somewhat 

 zigzag, 2-4 in. long, bracteate, glandular-puberulous ; bracts linear or 

 subulate, alternate, gradually smaller than the leaves ; pedicels 

 jr~\ in. long, glandular-puberulous from the axils of the bracts ; 

 calyx campanulate, 5-fid, glandular and pubescent outside with 

 whitish hairs, glabrous inside, -i^ in. long, pale green ; lobes triangular, 

 subulate or lanceolate, acute, tV~tV ^^- ^o^ig > corolla funnel-shaped, 

 sparingly glandular outside ; tube nearly equalling the calyx ; lobes 

 obovate, about xV~tV ^"^^ lo^o- somewhat spreading, entire ; stamens 

 just exserted, glabrous ; anthers alike, subreniform ; two of the 

 filaments short and inserted at the throat of the corolla, the others 

 longer and inserted on the corolla-tube ; style filiform, exserted, 

 exceeding the stamens, slightly thickened upwards, nearly glabrous ; 

 ovary glabrous ; capsule yV i^- ^^^o- 



Kalahaei Region : Transvaal ; common in marshy places near Johannes- 

 burg, E. 8. G. A. Herh. 869! Mrs. Stainhank in Herb. fFood. 3643! Mrs. 

 Saunders! Galpin, 1387! VVonderboom Poort, nciir Pretoria, Rehma'an, 4533! 

 4502! 4118! 



16. S. halimifolia (O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; sufifruticose, 

 annual or perennial, woody at the base, much branched below, 

 procumbent or suberect, 3-12 in. high; branches wiry, minutely 

 glandular-scaly or very nearly glabrous, rather slender, opposite, 

 the lower usually crowded and often elongated ; branchlets opposite 

 or alternate, erect or ascending, leafy, slender, wiry, green-hoary ; 

 leaves opposite, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or linear, obtuse, 

 narrowed towards the subsessile or sessile base, glabrous, green- 

 hoary especially beneath, denticulate or subentire, flat or revolute on 

 the margin, rather thick, -]-l in. long, ^^\ in. broad ; flowers lilac 

 or pink, i-i in. long, numerous, racemose and axillary; racemes 

 rather lax, many-flowered, terminal ; pedicels alternate or the lowest 

 opposite, slender, glabrous, J-g in. long; bracts basal, small and 

 subulate or the lowest foliaceous ; calyx minutely sessile-glandular, 

 deeply 5-cleft, -^-l- in. long; lobes lanceolate-linear, subobtuse ; 

 corolla-tube funnel-"shaped, subglabroua outside, straight, -,V-,'. in. 

 long; lobes obovate, rounded, entire, nearly equal, spreading, ,'^-;. 

 in. long; throat a little bearded; stamens exserted; anthers 

 rounded ; style exserted beyond the stamens ; capsule J-i in. long. 

 S.pumtla, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 4G7. Chienostoma halimi- 

 folium, Benth. in Hook. Camp. Bof. Mag. i. 375, and in DC. Prodr. 

 X- 354. C. pumilum, Benth. iii Hook. I.e., and in DC. I.e., 355. 

 Chwnostoma halimifolium, Drege, Zwei Fflanzenrjeogr. Doeumenfe, 5G, 

 CO, 62, 65, 172. Choenostoma pumilum, DregeJ.c, m, 172. Bitdd- 

 ^ejavirgata, Linn. Herh. ex Benth. in DO. Prodr. x. 354 (Buddea), 



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