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branches erect, rigid, obtusely tetragonous, rather robust, more or 

 less viscid-piiberulous, purplish or drab ; branchlets opposite, decus- 

 sate, purplish, viscid-puberulous, rather slender, ascending, sub- 

 virgate or subfastigiate, moderately leafy ; leaves opposite, elliptical 

 or oblong, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, shortly petiolate, 

 denticulate or sparingly toothed above, entire below, firmly or thickly 

 membranous, glandular-papillose or -puberulous, l-} in, long by 

 V6~^' ill- broad or rather larger ; lateral veins few, inconspicuous on 

 the upper face, in relief on the lower ; flowers numerous, paniculate, 

 about I in. long ; panicles terminal, pyramidal, many-flowered, com- 

 paratively dense ; bracts smaller than the leaves ; ultimate pedicels 

 rather rigid and slender, viscid-puberulous, -fo-| in. long; calyx 

 about } in. long, viscid-hispidulous, 5- cleft half-way or a little deeper ; 

 lobes lanceolate-subulate ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, slightly curved 

 towards the apex, minutely glandular outside, nearly I in. long ; 

 throat glabrous ; limb about -J—]- in. in diam. ; lobes -i\-yV in. long, 

 obovate, entire ; stamens glabrous, inserted on the upper part of the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers all alike, one jiair shortly 

 exserted, the other shortly included; style filiform, glabrous, shortly 

 exserted; capsules oval-oblong, obtuse, obsoletely glandular, J in. 

 long. 



Eastern Eegion : Natal j Noodsberg, 2500 ft.. Wood, 105! 



30. S. ramosissima (Hiern) ; an undershrub, intricately branched, 

 softly glandular-pulverulent, somewhat viscid, drab, about 8 in. 

 high ; branches woody, mostly leafless, a little bent at the nodes ; 

 branchlets alternate, divaricate, rigid, rather slender, the shorter 

 sometimes subspinescent ; leaves alternate, soon deciduous, obovate- 

 cuneate, broadly ovate, or subrhomboidal, obtuse, more or less wedge- 

 shaped or subtruncate at the base, toothed or excisely dentate except 

 at the base, thick, rather fleshy, shortly petiolate, about yV"! in- 

 long by -jL_i in. broad; flowers about |-i in. long, racemose; 

 racemes numerous, terminal, short, few-flowered ; pedicels -J-^ in. 

 longj rather firm, somewhat curved ; calyx glandular-papillose out- 

 side, smooth and veined inside, firm, 5-cleft rather below the middle, 

 about V in. long ; lobes ovate, subacute or subobtuse ; corolla very 

 thinly membranous, glabrous, obsoletely glandular, veined; tube 

 about } in. long, lower half subcylindrical, gVaV '°- ^^ ^^^t^-, "PPer 

 part ventricosely dilated, much curved, about i in. in diam. at the 

 top ; limb oblique, about | in. broad, spreading ; lobes rounded, 

 entire, x-x in. long; stamens included, glabrous ; anthers reniform, 

 roundish, -J^ in. broad; filaments ^'o-rV i"- ^^°S> ovary ovoid- 

 conical, minutelv and inconspicuously glandular, ^^ in- long ; style 

 straight, slightly clavate upwards, somewhat glandular, J in. long. 



Wesijern Region : Great Buslimanlaiid ; Pella, ou the Orange Eiver, Max 

 Schlechter, 131 ! near the Orange Biver at Vuurdood, 1600 ft., Schlechter, 

 11448 ! 



31. S. batlapina (Hiern) ; an undershrub, woody and intricate 



