﻿260 scROPHULAEiACEffi (Hiem). [Sutera. 



high ; branches paniculate or corymbose, viscid-pubescent above, the 

 lower spreading and opposite, the upper alternate or opposite and 

 ascending, leafy ; leaves opposite or the uppermost alternate, ovate, 

 elliptical or lanceolate, obtusely narrowed, more or less wedge-shaped 

 at the base, dentate, puberulous or glabrous, -3— H ^^- ^^^r.^ xV-i i^- 

 broad ; petioles up to f in. long ; flowers racemose and axillary, 

 blueish lilac, J-f in. long, numerou9 ; pedicels ^-f in. long, rather 

 slender, glandular-pilose or glabrous, opposite or alternate ; bracts 

 basal, ovate or lanceolate, rather obtuse, sessile, entire or sparingly 

 toothed, smaller than the leaves ; calyx glandular-hispidulous, 

 deeply 5-lobed, i-J, in. long; segments lanceolate or linear, rather 

 obtuse; corolla-tube funnel-shaped, nearly straight, i— } in. long, 

 minutely sessile-glandular above ; throat glabrous and saftron-yellow 

 inside; limb spreading, saffron-yellow outside; lobes 5, obovate- 

 rounded, entire, }-\ in. long; stamens glabrou=i, exserted ; anthers 

 rounded ; style exserted, exceeding the filaments ; capsules ovoid or 

 oblong, about i-^ in. long. Chcenostoma polyanthum, Bentli. in 

 Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 375, andin DC. Prodr. x. 354. Manuka 

 polyantha, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 236. 



Coast REGioy, between 100 and 400D ft: Knysna DW.; Plettenberg Bay, 

 Surchell, 5333! Willowmore Div.; on the Zwartberg Range, Bolus, 2416! 

 Uiteubage Div. ; near Uitenhage, EcJclon §' Zeyher, 379 ! near the Zwartkops 

 River, Zeyher, 124! 584! EcMon ! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, 

 100 ft., Bolus, 2236! Cape Recife, EcMon, 4261 Bathurst Div. ; near the source 

 of Kasuga River, Burchell, 3910 ! Albany Div. ; Pish River Heights, Hutton ! 

 Bedford Div.; near Bedford, Cooper, 2856! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 

 Shaw in Herh. Bohis, 1991 ! Seymour, Scully, 24 ! Queenstown Div. ; Lesseytou 

 Nek, Galpin, 1815 ! King Williamstown Div. ; Keiskamma, Hutton ! near King 

 Williams Town, Tyxon in MacOwan ^ Bolus Herh. Norm. 855 1 Perie Wood, 

 Kimtze. British KafEraria, Coo-per, 178 ! 



Central Region: Colesberg Div.; between Colesberg and Hopetown, 

 8hmo ! Carolus Poort, Burchell, 2.1oo ! Philipstowu Div. ; near Petrusville, 

 Burchell, 2682 ! 



Kalahaei Region : Transvaal ; Pere Kop, Rehmann, 6S46 ! 



With this species should be compared Chanostoma calycinuvi, var. ^? 

 laxijlora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 374, and in DC. Prodr. x. 354. 

 Chcenostoma calycinum, P (b), Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 172, 47, 

 so far as it applies to the following specimen : — 



Coast Region : Cathcart Div. ; Blesbok Flats, near Windvogel Mountain, 

 3000 ft., Drege, 548J ! 



21. S. neglecta (Hiern); an erect herb, sparingly branched, 

 woody at the base, 1-1 1 ft. high, apparently perennial; stems 

 several from the woody rootstock, terete, rigid, densely puberulous 

 with very short thin brownish hairs ; leaves opposite, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, subampiexicaul, sessile, distantly and unequally dentate or 

 subentire, coriaceous, puberulous on both faces with very short thm 

 hairs especially beneath on the prominent midrib, ^-1]- in- ^^ng, 

 in-i i°- Inroad ; lateral veins obscure ; flowers axillary and racemose, 

 arranged in simple or divided leafy or bracteate racemes ; pedicels 

 1-21- in. long, opposite ; bracts basal, ovate or lanceolate or subulate; 

 calyx deeply 5-cleft ; tube subhemispherical ; lobes 5, linear- 



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