﻿Sittera.l sorophulariace^ (Hiern). 269 



37. S. aethiopica (0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; an under- 

 shrub, closely branched, perennial, erect or decumbent, 4-12 in. 

 high ; branches opposite or alternate, woody, patent, thinly pubes- 

 cent ; branchlets wiry, leafy, more or less pilose or inconspicuously 

 puberulous, flowering ones sometimes fastigiate and erect; leaves 

 opposite or sometimes quasi-fasciculate, obovate, oblong or oblanceo- 

 late, obtuse, more or less wedge-shaped towards the base, sessile or 

 aubsessile, coarsely few-toothed or denticulate or subentire, puberu- 

 lous or glabrous, smooth, 4— f in. long, yu~T'\" ^^- hroad ; flowers 

 axillary and racemose, ^— | in. long; racemes terminal, short, lax 

 and subcorymbose or somewhat elongating ; pedicels opposite or 

 alternate, finely glandular-pilose, erect, }-} in. long ; bracts small or 

 leafy ; calyx a-i in. long, minutely viscid-glandular, somewhat 

 hispid, deeply 5-cleft ; segments sublinear, subacute ; corolla yellow ; 

 tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped, nearly straight, l-)^ in. long, minutely 

 glandular-puberulous outside; lobes 5, spreading, rounded, entire, 

 tV-to in- long ] capsule ovoid or oblong, yV^o i"- long. Buelmera 

 cethiopica, Linn. Mant. alt. 251. B. ethiopica, Burehell, Trav. S. 

 Afr. i. 29. CJicenostoma athiopieum, Benfh. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 375, and in DC. Prodr. x. 355. 



South Africa: without locality, OJienbMj'gf, 402 ! Herh. Linneus ! 



Coast Region, between 100 and 800 ft.: Cape Div.; Camps Bay, BurcheH, 

 317! MacGiUivray, 567! Bredasdorp Div. ; Riet Foiiteiu Poort, Schlechter, 

 9702! Caledon Div.; Papies Yley, Schlechter, 10142! Humansdorp Div. ; Kruis 

 Fonteiii, near Humansdorp, Oalpin, i381 I 



38. S. integrifolia (0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 4G7); an 

 undershrub, loosely branched, subglabrous or puberulous, erect, 

 1-2 ft. high or more ; stem cinereous ; branches numerous, divari- 

 cate, wiry, the lower sometimes procumbent and rooting below, leafy 

 and closely branched above ; branchlets opposite or alternate ; leaves 

 opposite or the upper sometimes alternate, elliptical, obovate or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, subsessile or scarcely 

 petiolate, subentire, glabrous or obsoletely puberulous, mostly 

 H- in. long by yVi in. broad, nearly flat or revolnte on the margin ; 

 flowers axillary about the tops of the branchlets or the upper loosely 

 racemose, A_f in. long; pedicels rather slender, J-!; in. long; bracts 

 foliaceous, smaller than the leaves; calyx yV-'i i"- io"K' glabrous or 

 sparingly hairy, deeply 5-lobed; segments sublinear; corolla-tube 

 cylindrical, funnel-shaped towards the top, straight or somewhat 

 curved, minutely glandular-puberulous outside, I-} in. long ; lobes 

 obovate-rotund, entire, -^\-l in. long; one pair of stamens included, 

 the other about equalling the corolla-tube ; capsule oval, J in. long. 

 Manulea integrifolia, Linn.f. Suppl. 28.5 ; Thunh. Prodr. \00 and 

 PI- Cap. ed. Schult 467. Chcenostoma integrifolium, Benth. in 

 Hook. Comp. Bat. Mag. i. 376, and in DC Prodr. x. 356. Choe- 

 nosioma integrifolium, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Dorumente, 

 102, 172. 



Var. 0, parvifolia (Hiern) ; leaves *-} in. long; calyx ^^ »'• '°"g : '"^psule 



