﻿268 scKOPHULAEiACE^E (Hiern). [Sutera. 



about 3^0 in. long; ovary void-oblong, obtuse, glabrous^ somewhat 

 compressed, dusky, -j-V io. long ; capsule pale green, glabrous, oval- 

 oblong, i-i in. long ; seeds numerous, Ksmall. 



Kalahaei Region: Orange Eiver Colony ; HoodevA, Barrclt-Humilton! 



35. S. compta (Hiern); apparently sufPratieose and branched; 

 branches subvirgatc, purplish, puberulous all round, leafy, rigid, 

 moderately robust ; hairs whitish ; leaves opposite, sometimes quasi- 

 fascicidate, oval, rounded or obtuse, shortly narrowed at the sub- 

 sessile base, dentate, firmly membranous, hispidulous beneath, sub- 

 scabrid, i-f in. long, -^%—} in. broad ; flowers numerous, -}-^ in. 

 long, cymose ; cymes terminal, rather compact, oblong, leafy towards 

 the base, compound, many-flowered, 6-8 in. long ; ultimate pedicels 

 puberulous, -.^h^-a ^^- ^^^S 5 tracts small, oblong or subulate ; calyx 

 viscid-pubescent, 5-cleft scarcely half-way down, -}-} in. long in 

 flower, J- in. long in fruit ; lobes lanceolate or subulate, acute ; 

 corolla marcescent ; tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped, sparingly and 

 minutely glandular outside, somewhat curved above, ^—^^ in. long; 

 throat glabrous ; limb spreading, about | in. in diam. ; lobes oblong, 

 truncate-rounded, entire, xV~to ^^- ^'^^E > one pair of anthers 

 exserted, the other included ; style exserted ; capsules oval-oblong, 

 glabrous, ^ in. long. 



Eastern Region: Natal; hills above Greytown, 4000-5000 ft.. Wood, 

 4333! 



36. S. cephalotes (O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 467, exel. syn. 

 Thunb.) ; an undershrub, densely branched, perennial, 6-12 in. high, 

 erect or nearly so ; branches numerous, subereet, rather slender, 

 fastigiate, fuscous below, more or less pilose above, leafy ; leaves 

 opposite, often quasi-fasciculate, oblanceolate or oblong, obtusely 

 pointed, wedge-shaped at the base, sessile or subsessile, deeply few- 

 toothed towards the apex, flat or nearly so, pubescent, i-f in. long, 

 3iT-iV in. broad ; flowers about -} in. long, subcapitate, 2-7 together; 

 pedicels -/g-J in. long, glandular-puberulous, opposite or terminal, 

 bract small; calyx glandular-hispidulous, deeply S-lobed, ■}-} in- 

 long ; segments linear-lanceolate ; corolla-tube cylindrical, funnel- 

 shaped at the apex, minutely glandular-puberulous outside, f-l in- 

 long ; lobes obovate-rotund, entire, |— i in. long. Ghcenostonia 

 fastigiatmn, Benth. in Hooh. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 376, and in DC 

 Prodr. X. 356, excl. syn. Ghcenostoma fastigiatam, Drege, Zviei 

 Pjianzengeogr. Documente, 120, 172. 



Vae. /3, glabrata (Hiern) ; loaves and branebes nearly glabrous. GhxiiosloinO' 

 fastigiatum, p. glalndum, Benth., II. cc, excl. s)jn. 



Coast Regiok, between 500 and 2O0O ft. : Caledon Div. ; Babylons Tower, 

 Ecklon &• Zeyher, 86 ! Swellendana Div. ; near ibe lower part of Zondereinile 

 River, Zeyher, 3503a ! 3503b ! Vab. j8 : Caledon Div. j Klein River Mountains, 

 Ecklon! mountain ridges between Babylons Tower and Caledon, Ecklon C)' 

 Zeyher ! near Caledon, Drige, 790Sa ! 



