﻿Sufera.] sceophdlabiacb^ (Hiern). 259 



shining, minutely sessile-glandular, i-f in. long, ^^^'ts in- broad, 

 revolute along the margins, the upper smaller ; flowers racemose, 

 rather numerous, Jr-| in. long; racemes lax, terminal, paniculate; 

 pedicels divaricate, alternate or opposite, rather rigid, glandular- 

 papillose, ^1 in. long ; bracts basal, like the leaves or sublaneeolate, 

 smaller; calyx densely glandular- papillose, deeply 5-lobed, J-^ in. 

 long ; segments sublinear, pointed ; corolla yellow or orange (iV. E. 

 Brotvn); tube ^q~\ in. long, glandular-puberulous outside, funnel- 

 shaped, a little curved ; limb \-\ in. in diam. ; lobes broadly oval or 

 rotund, rounded, entire, xV~t ^^- ^o^gj Ttr^s i"- '>road, spreading or 

 reflexed; stamens exserted ; filaments glabrous or nearly so ; anthers 

 glabrous, subreniform ; style exserted, slightly clavate and minutely 

 glandular-puberulous towards the apex ; capsules ovoid-oblong, 

 shining, obsoletely glandular, about \ in. long. Cluenostoma subnu- 

 dum, N. E. Br. in Keio Bulletin, 1901, 128. 



Coast Eegion : Biversdale Div. ; Muiskraal, near Gaic'as Pass, 1500 ft., 

 Galpin, 4375 ! 



19. S. laxiflora (0. Kuntze, Rev, Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; apparently 

 annual, woody and shrubby below, subherbaceous above, erect or 

 procumbent, much branched, minutely glandular-puberulous or nearly 

 glabrous, about 1 ft. high ; branches rather slender, wiry, often 

 fastigiate, leafy ; leaves opposite, narrowly elliptical or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse or apiculate, attenuate or wedge-shaped at the base, minutely 

 sessile-glandular, sparingly dentate or denticulate, |-1 in. long, ,V-i- 

 in. broad, shortly petiolate orsubsessile ; flowers numerous, racemose, 

 {—^ in. long ; racemes terminal, rather lax, many-flowered, simple or 

 somewhat compound ; pedicels rather slender, minutely glandular- 

 puberulous, i-f in. long ; bract basal, lanceolate-oblong, sessile, 

 foliaceous, smaller than the leaves ; calyx glandular, deeply 5-lobed, 

 To— g- in. long ; segments linear-lanceolate, narrowed towards the 

 subobtuse apex ; corolla-tube |-| in. long, funnel-shaped, shortly 

 cylindrical below, nearly straight, sparingly and minutely glandular 

 outside; limb i-f in. broad; lobes rounded, entire, l~l in. long; 

 stamens glabrous"; filaments filiform, inserted about tlie glabrous 

 corolla-throat, all exceeding the tube; anthers rounded; etylo 

 exserted, intermediate in length between the two pairs of filaments, 

 rather thicker towards the apex ; capsule y^g-J in. long. Chcenos- 

 toma laxiflorum, Benth. in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 374, awl in 

 HO. Prod): x. 354. Ghcenostoma laxiflorum, Drege, Zwei Pflanzen- 

 (feogr. Documenie, 141, 172. 



Coast Region: King Williamstown Div.; Keiskamma (ex Bentham, but in 

 Bathurst Div. ; on dry hills near Fish River, below 1000 ft., ex Drege), Drige, 

 7911a ! Albany Div.,' shady places near Blue Kiantz, 1000 ft., Bolm, 1947! 

 and without precise locality, Williamson ! 



20. S. polyantha (0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; an annual 

 l^erb, rigid or wiry, hard and often shrubby at the base, erect or 

 ascending, more or less branched from the base upwards, 6-12 in. 



