﻿264 SCROPHULARIACKJ; (Hiern). [Sideru. 



somewhat recurved above tlie base, slightly dilated at the apex, 

 glandular or nearly glabrous outside, about J in. long or rather more ; 

 limb spreading, somewhat bilabiate, 5-cleft, about ^ in. by ^ in. ; 

 anterior lip trifid, -i in. long; posterior lip bifid, } in. long; lobes 

 oval-obloDg or rotund, nearly entire, glabrous, I—} in. long ; throat 

 round, setose and papillose, about -^\ in. in diam. ; stamens included, 

 erect, glabrous ; anthers small, round ; filaments straight, inserted 

 about the base of the corolla-tube, firm, rather slender ; style glab- 

 rous, straight, firm, filiform, about ^^ in. long ; stigma small, 

 capitate ; ovary small, ovoid, minutely glandular-papillose ; ovules 

 oblong ; capsule glandular-papillose, ^\ in. long or at length equal- 

 ling the somewhat dilated calyx. Lyperia brevijlora, Schlechter in 

 Journ. Bot. 1896, 393. L. punicea, N. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 

 IS 96, 163. ChcEnostoma woodianum, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 

 474. C. hrevijiorum, Diels, I.e. 493. 



Eastdkn Eegion, between 35C0 and 6000 ft. : Poudoland ; Fakiis Territory, 

 Sutherland ! and without precise locality, ^acftiuann, 1244 ! Griqualand East; 

 near Kokstad, Tyson, 1363 ! 1645 ! Vaal Bank, Haygarih in Herh. TFood, 4214 ! 

 Natal; Polela, Erons, 631 ! Drakensberg Range, Erans, 392 ! near Nottingham 

 EoaH, Wood, 6557 ! South ' Downs, Wood, 4422 ! Maritzburg county, Wood, 

 3572 ! Klip River, Gerrard, 365 ! 



28. S. annua (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, slender, simple or 

 loosely branched, glandular-puberiilous or nearly glabrous, rather 

 shining, li-8 in. high ; branches opposite or alternate, few, angular ; 

 upper internodes mostly equalling or exceeding the leaves ; leaves 

 narrowly elliptical or oblanceolate, obtuse or the upper subacute, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, dentate, all or the upper 

 strongly toothed, i-2 in. long, -^^-^ in. broad ; petioles up to 1 in. 

 long ; flowers racemose and in the upper axils, about ^~} in. long, 

 few, several or numerous, forming terminal bracteate and somewhat 

 leafy simple or somewhat compound finely pilose racemes; bracts 

 narrow, smaller than the leaves ; pedicels slender, up to 1 in. long ; 

 calyx ■j\-} in. long, strongly ciliate-pubescent, deeply 5-lobed ; 

 segments sublinear, subobtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, puberu- 

 lous or thinly pubescent, straight or somewhat curved, A-i in. long ; 

 limb spreading, l-^\ in. in diam. ; lobes obovate, rounded, entire, 

 tV-b in. long ; throat more or less pilose or hispid ; two of the 

 anthers often partly exserted ; style often very shortly exserted; 

 capsule ovoid, pallid, obsoletely glandular, i in. long. Chcenostoma 

 annuum, Schlechter MSS. 



Var. 0, laxa (Hieru) ; flowers about i in. long ; pedicels very slender. Cha- 

 nostoma annuiim, var. laxum, Schlechter MSS. 



Coast Region, between 300 and 2500 ft. : Clanwilliam Div. ; near Clan- 

 william, ScWec/it«-, 5060 ! 8022 ! Bolus, iOQS\ Graaff Water, ^IcAigcWeriSSeT.! 

 Piquetberg Div.; Piquiniera:~Kloof, SchlpM£x^„^]m\ VAB-^TrClanwiTliain 

 Div.; Boont]f!sm\-Gr, Schlechter, MBTI^ """^ 



^ 29. S. noodsbergensis (Hiern); somewhat shrubby, subherbaceous 

 above, perhaps perennial, about 2 ft. high or more, closely branched ; 



