﻿266 scKOPHULAKiACJ!;.E (Hiern). [Sutera. 



below, subherbaceous and divaricately brancbed above, subglabrous, 

 minutely glandular-pulverulent above, slightly viscid and shining, 

 perennial, much branched, decumbent or ascending, 8-10 in. high or 

 more ; branches opposite or alternate, sometimes quasi-fasciculate, 

 rigid, patent or erect-patent, slender, wiry, moderately leafy ; leaves 

 opposite or alternate, often quasi-fasciculate, oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 wedge-shaped to the subsessile base, incisely few-toothed or entire, 

 rather thick, glistening with small sessile glands, i— g- in. long, 

 gif-yV i^' broad ; flowers axillary and racemose, blue, about ^ in. 

 long, rather numerous, together forming leafy terminal lax oblong 

 racemes ; pedicels rather rigid, divaricate, ^-^ in. long, glandular- 

 papillose ; bracts entire, smaller than the leaves ; calyx glandular- 

 pulverulent, deeply 5-lobed, about -j-V in. long ; segments sublinear 

 or oblong, obtuse ; corolla-tube cylindrical and straight except the 

 slightly dilated and funnel-shaped subgibbous upper part, nearly 

 i in. long, viscid and minutely sessile-glandular outside ; limb 

 spreading, about f in, in diam. ; lobes obovate-oblong, -^—1 in. long, 

 rounded, entire ; stamens and style included ; capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 shining, sprinkled with small sessile glands, i in. long. 



Kalahaki Region : Beclmanaland ; Batlapin Country, Nelson, 37 ! 



32. S. arcuata (Hiern) ; somewhat shrubby, subherbaceous above, 

 perhaps perennial, 1-1|- ft. high or more, much branched ; stems 

 erect, decumbent or dependent and ascending, arching above, densely 

 glandular-pubescent with short whitish rather thick hairs, somewhat 

 woody and becoming bald below or nearly so, somewhat wiry above ; 

 branches and branchlets opposite, divaricate, more or less arching, 

 often secund ; internodes 4— If in. long ; leaves opposite, ovate or 

 obovate, obtuse or rounded, wedge-shaped at the base, obtusely 

 dentate except the wedge-shaped lower part, firmly membranous, 

 papillose-hispidulous, subscabrid, a— J in. long, -fV'i ^^' broad; 

 lateral veins 1-3 on each side, not very conspicuous, impressed on 

 the upper face in relief on the lower ; petioles up to ^ in. long ", 

 flowers numerous, racemose and paniculate, about ro ^- ^oug ; 

 panicles many-flowered, bracteate and somewhat leafy, terminal, 

 moderately lax or comparatively dense, more or less arching ; bracts 

 smaller and narrower than the leaves ; pedicels rather slender, 

 glandular-hispidulous, opposite or alternate, -j-V-i in. long; calyx 

 viscid-hispidulous, 5-cleft about half-way down, }—} in. long ; lobes 

 subulate; corolla-tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped, straight or nearly 

 so, glandular-puberulous outside, about -} in. long; throat naked; 

 limb spreading, glandular-puberulous on the back, about } in. m 

 diam. ; lobes oblong or obovate, rounded, entire, tV~to *"• '^°^; 

 stamens glabrous; anthers uniform, subreniform, one pair exserted, 

 the other nearly reaching the corolla-mouth ; style filiform, glabrous, 

 shortly or nearly included ; capsules oblong, obtuse, glabrous, l in. long- 



Kalahasi Region: Transvaal; Klip Spruit, Steenkamps Mountains, Nelson, 

 385! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Coldatream, liehnmnn, 6909 ! 



