﻿258 scROPHaLAniACE^ (Hiern). [Sutera. 



partly. Sphenandra cinerea, Engl. Jahrh. x. 253. Manulea 

 halimifolia, 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. Pi. iii. ii. 235. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher, 1289 ! 



Coast Eegion, between 2000 and 5000 ft. : Uitenhage Div. ; lEcUon Si" 

 Zeyher, 281! Queenstown Div.; on flats and hills, Cooper, 1327! Baur, 

 981! Galpin, 16.50! 2677! 2678! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Barher .' Bowler, 

 778! 



Central Region, between 2500 and 5000 ft. : Prince Albert Div.; by tlie 

 Gamka River, Burke! Willowmore Div. ; near Aasvogel Mountain, Drege, 833d! 

 Zwaanepoels Poort, Drege, 7917h ! Somerset Div. ; Bowler, 125 ! Graaff 

 Reinet Div. ; near Wagenpads Mountain, BurclieU, 2832 ! near Graaff Reinet, 

 Ecklon ^ Zeyher, 117 ! 402 ! Bolus, 29 ! 74! Aberdeen Div. ; in the Caindeboo, 

 Drege, 883b! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuvveveld Mountains, Drege, Sutherland 

 Div. ; by Great Reed River, Burchell, 1377 ; Richmond Div. ; near Styl Kloof, 

 Dreae, 883a ! Albert Div. ; Burke .' Cooper, 779 ! 2859 ! Colesberg Div., Shaw ! 

 Philipstown Div. ; at Bavers Pan, Burchell, 2704 1 



Kalahaei Region, between 3000 and 4000 ft. : Griqualand West ; at 

 Griqua Town, Burchell, 1960-1 ! at the foot of the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 

 2075 ! near Hebron, Nelson, 184 ! Bechuanaland ; Grootfontein near Kuruman, 

 Marloth, 1126 ! Batlapin Territory, Holub ! Transvaal ; near Koorn River, 

 Nelson, 393 ! near Potchefstrom , MacLea in Herh. Bnlua, 117 ! 



Easteen Region: Transkei ; Kreilis Country, Bowker ! by the Tsomo 

 River, Mrs. Barher! Bowker, 815! Tembuland; St. Marks, Bowker, 362! 



17. S. stenophylla (Hiern) ; an undershrub, pallid, somewhat 

 shining, about a foot high ; rootstock woody ; stems erect or ascend- 

 ing, rather slender, rigid, tetragonous, moderately leafy, branched at 

 the base or simple, usually branched at or near the inflorescence, 

 subvirgate, minutely and inconspicuously glandular- papillose ; inter- 

 nodes mostly i-1 in. long; branches opposite ; leaves opposite, sub- 

 linear, pungent, not much narrowed towards the sessile connate 

 bases, entire, hard, rather thick, revolute on the margin, minutely 

 glandular-papillose or -dotted, \-\\ in. long, j,VyV ^^- broad; 

 flowers racemose, rather numerous, I-t-V in. long ; racemes terminat- 



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ing the stem and branches, corymbosely arranged, few-flowered, 

 simple or somewhat compound, i-f in. long in flower; pedicels 

 J— i in. long, shortly and closely glandular, divaricate, alternate ; 

 bracts small, subulate ; calyx minutely glandular and sprinkled with 

 whitish scaly papillae, unequally 5-cleft to or below the middle, about 

 J in. long ; lobes linear-lanceolate, subacute ; corolla-tube cylindrical- 

 funnel-shaped, glandular-puberulous outside, about |- in. long; throat 

 somewhat hispid ; limb somewhat spreading, about | in. in diam. ; 

 lobes oval-oblong, obtuse, entire, about i in. long ; stamens exserted ; 

 capsule yV-b ill- long. 



Coast Region : Ondtshoorn Div. ; in gravelly places at Klipdrift, in the 

 great Karroo, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 2250! 



18. 8. subnuda (Hiern); a wiry herb, 1-1 i^ ft. high, perhaps 

 perennial ; stems erect or ascending, pallid, shining, glabrous below, 

 branched; branches opposite, divaricate, rather sfender, pale grey- 

 green, viscid-pubescent above; leaves opposite, distant, sublinear, 

 obtuse at each end, sessile, somewhat clasping at the base, entire, 



