﻿Sutera.] scrophclaeiace^ (Hiern), 267 



33. S. pediuiculosa (0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; herba- 

 ceous or shrubby below, annua] or sometimes perhaps perennial, 

 pale green, viscid-puberulous, intricately branched ; stems pro- 

 cumbent or flexuous-ereet ; branches opposite or alternate, slender 

 or wiry, moderately leafy ; leaves alternate or the lower opposite, 

 ovate or oblong, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, incise- or 

 pinnatifid-dentate, membranous, ~-l in. long, -J— f in. broad ; 

 petioles up to about f in. long; flowers yellow, axillary, numerous, 

 i-^ in. long ; peduncles l-flowered, filiform, spreading, ^-2 in. long; 

 calyx -jij-l^ in. long, glandular-puberulous, deeply 5-lobed ; segments 

 broadly sublinear, rather obtusely narrowed above ; corolla-tube 

 cylindrical, rather slender, a little widened near the top, straight or 

 slightly carved above, sparingly glandular outside, about -} in. long ; 

 limb spreading, a little oblique, about | in. in diam. ; lobes obovate- 

 rotund, entire, {—^ in. long ; throat puberulous ; stamens glabrous ; 

 filaments filiform, short; anthers small, rounded, one pair at the 

 mouth of the corolla, the other shortly included; style filiform, 

 rather thicker than the filaments, glabrous, as long as the corolla- 

 tube; capsule ^ in. long. Chcenostoma pedunculosum, Benth. in 

 Hook. Camp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in DC. Prodr. x. 357. Chcenos- 

 toma pedunculosum, Dreoe, Zwei PHamengeogr. Documente, 90, 

 172. 



Western Ekgion, between 2000 and 3200 ft. : Little Namoquiiland ; rocky 

 places near Silver Fontein, Brege ! in rocky places near Ookiep, MacOwan if 

 Bolus, Serb. Norm. 661! Arakeep, Schlechtcr, 11213! and without precise 

 locality, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5736 ! 



Also in South-western Tropical Africa, 



34. S. cymulosa (Hiern) ; a robust herb, apparently erect and 

 perennial, about 1 ft. high; branches subterete below, obtusely 

 tetragonous above, pale green, with numerous whitish soft hairs and 

 pulverulent glands ; lower internodes |-3 in. long, the upper mostly 

 shorter; leaves mostly alternate, ovate or elliptical, more or less 

 acute or pointed, narrowed at the base, irregularly or deeply dentate, 

 thinly herbaceous, pale green, more or less whitish pubescent, .^-1^1 

 in. long, |-f in. broad; petioles up to } in. long; inflorescence 

 terminal, cymose, compound, leafy below, jiyramidal, subcorymbose 

 or oblong, 2 6 in. long, many-flowered, whitish pubescent ; peduncles 

 up to i or f in. long, spreading, mostly 3-flowered ; pedicels up to 

 } in. long; bracts usually solitary, basal, narrow, -yi in. long; 

 calyx pubescent, |-i in. long, deeply 5-lobed, pale green, whitish 

 pubescent ; segments lanceolate-subulate ; corolla-tube about -,V i«- 

 long, nearly straight, subcylindrical, rather narrow, sparingly pubes- 

 cent outside, glabrous within; limb about i in. in diam.; lobes 

 about -ji^ in. long, oval, entire, nearly equal ; throat puberulous or 

 nearly naked ; stamens glabrous, included ; the upper pair inserted 

 about the middle of the corolla-tube, the lower below the middle ; 

 anthers reniform, 1 -celled, oval, about ^\- in. long ; filaments short, 

 filiform ; style glabrous, dusky, including the club-shaped stigma 



