﻿270 scROPHULAEiACEJ! (Hieru), [Sittera. 



^^ in. long Ohwnostoma integrifolium, var. parvifolium, Benth. in Hook., 

 I.e. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! Oldenburg, 1S89 ! 



Coast Region, between 200 and 1000 ft. : Riversdale Div. ; at Great Vals 

 River, Biwchell, 6548 ! Garcias Pass, Oalpin, 4379 ! near Gauritz River Bridge, 

 Galpiti, 4380 ! George Div.; near the Great Brak River, Young in Herb. Bolus , 

 5528! Var. /8 : Cape Div. ; Tyger Berg, Drege, 291 ! 



In Thunberg's herbarium this and two other species are classed together. 



39. S. marifolia (0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 467); shrubby, 

 apparently perennial, minutely hoary- to mentose, branched, pro- 

 cumbent ; branches elongated, mostly opposite, often interlacing, 

 wiry, rather slender; leaves opposite, elliptical, obtusely narrowed 

 above, somewhat wedge-shaped towards the rather broad base, rather 

 thick, sessile or subsessile, narrowly revoiute on the margin, sub- 

 entire or few-toothed or denticulate, ^-^ in. long, J-f in. broad; 

 flowers racemose and axillary, rather numerous, |-f in. long, forming 

 leafy terminal elongating racemes; pedicels short, the lower in fruit 

 up to ^- in. long, or in some cases the axillary peduncles up to | in, 

 long ; bract leaf -like, smaller than the leaves ; calyx minutely 

 glandular-tomentose, hoary, ~ in. long, deeply 5-lobed ; segments 

 linear-subulate ; corolla-tube \-l in. long, cylindrical, funnel-shaped 

 towards the top, glandular-puberulous outside ; lobes obovate or 

 oblong, rounded, entire, about J^ in. long; stamens included; 

 capsule ovoid, j^^f in. long. ChtBnoatoma marifolium, Benth. in 

 Hook. Comp. Eot. Mag. i. 376, and DC. Prodr. x. 356, excl. syn. 

 Ohoenostoma marifolium, Drege, Zwel Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 

 118, 172. 



Coast Region : Knjsna Div. ; Vlugt Valley (a form with shaggy calyx), 

 Bolus, 2415 ! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Bt-rg, Drege, 2325 ! Zeyher, 71 ! 

 692! 3504! between Leadmine River and Vau Stadens River, Burchell, 43361 

 Port Elizabeth Div. ; Witte Klip, Bolus, 9126 ! 



40. S. revoluta (O. Kuntze, Rev. den. PI. ii. 467) ; an uuder- 

 shrub, woody at the base, branched, somewhat ashy or hispidulous 

 or scabrid-puberulous, ^-1^ ft. high, erect; stem ashy, glabrous; 

 branches suberect or ascending, opposite or alternate, leafy, wiry, 

 often virgate ; leaves linear or occasionally linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 somewhat narrowed towards the sessile base, entire, more or less 

 revoiute on the margins, hispidulous or subscabrid, opposite, often 

 quasi-fasciculate, ^-1 in. long, ~j— |- in. broad ; flowers pale blue, 

 rather numerous, racemose and axillary, i-|- in. long ; pedicels 

 Jjj-^- in. long, glandular-scabrid ; bracts sublinear, like the leaves 

 but smaller ; calyx glandular-puberulous, deeply 5-lobed, !-«- in- 

 long ; lobes lanceolate-linear, bluntly subulate ; corolla sprinkled 

 with minute glands outside ; tube cylindrical, funnel-shaped at the 

 apex, straight or a little curved, A-| in. long ; limb spreading, \-^ in- 

 in diam.; lobes obovate-rotund, entire, tV^tV io- ^^ng ; stamens 

 glabrous, one pair exserted, the other as long as the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers rounded ; style exserted ; capsule ovoid-oblong, |- in, long, 

 Manuka revoluta, Thunb. Prodr. 100, and Fl, Cap. ed. SchuU. 



