﻿272 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiem). [Stdera. 



poels Poort Mouatains, Drege, 7917a ! Prince Albert Div, ; uear Kaiidos Moun- 

 tain, Brege, 7913 ! 



42. S. linifolia (0. Kunfcze, Rev. Gen. PL ii. 467) ; an under- 

 shrub, ^-1 2" ft. high, much branched, erect ; branches rather slender 

 above, woody below, spreading or ascending ; branchlets opposite or 

 alternate, divaricate, puberulous, leafy ; leaves opposite or quasi- 

 fasciculate with abbreviated axillary leafy shoots, or the uppermost 

 alternate, linear or oblanceolate, obtuse, wedge-shaped towards the 

 base, entire or with a few small teeth, flat or revolute in the margins, 

 minutely puberulous or glabrous, 1-1} in. long, 4^^-^ in. broad, 

 sessile or shortly petiolate ; flowers racemose and axillary, rather 

 numerous, blue or purple, ^-} in. long ; pedicels -}-} in. long, 

 glandular-puberulous, opposite or alternate, bracteate at the base ; 

 bracts sublinear, sessile, smaller than the leaves ; calyx more or less 

 glandular-puberulous, deeply 5-lobed, ^-^- in. long or in fruit rather 

 longer ; lobes sublinear or lanceolate-acnminate ; corolla-tube 

 minutely glandular-puberulous outside, straight or but little curved, 

 cylindrical, funnel-shaped at the top, ^-^V i^i- long ; li^i^ spreading, 

 equal ; lobes obovate- oblong, entire, rounded at the apex, -J— xV in- 

 long; stamens didynamous, one pair exserted, the other about 

 equalling the corolla-tube ; anthers rounded ; capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 i-i in. long or rather more. Manulea linifolia, Thunh. Prodr. 100, 

 and Fl. Gap. ed. Schult. 466 ; O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PI. in. ii. 235, 

 partly. Ohcenostoma linifolium, Benth. in Hook. Comp. JSot. Mag. i- 

 375, and in DC. Prodr. x. 355; Kratiss in Flora, 1844, 834. 

 Chcenostoma linifolium, Dreffe, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documenie, 102 

 and 119 {linifolia), 172. 



Vab /8, heterophylla (Hiern) ; lowest leaves pinnatilobed, the lower ones fen-- 

 toothed, the rest linear-spathulate, obtuse, quite entire or 1-2-toothed at the apex. 

 Manulea linifolia, var. heterophylla, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Qen. Pl. iii. ii. 235. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! Harvey ! 



Coast Region, between 300 and 2000 ft. : Clanwilliam Div. ; Brak Fontein 

 and Groot Poort, EcUon ! Tulbagh Div. ; near Artois, Bolus, 5366 ! between 

 Tulbagh and the BroiiAy, Burehell, 1Q2Q \ uenv Saron, Sc/(7ec7ifer, 7874 ! 4866! 

 Tulbagh, Pap2>e.' Worcester Div.; Hex River Kloof, Drege ! Cape Div. ; Tyger 

 Berg, Dre^re, 253! Cape Fenmaa\A, Schlechter, 716! Mossel Bay; between Mossel 

 Bay and Zoute River, Burchell, 6337 ! Knysna Div. ; hills near the great forest, 

 Bolus, 2412 ! Uniondale Div. ; Long Kloof, Kmuss ! Uifcenhage Div. ; Uitenbage, 

 Zeyhev, 3505 ! 



Kalahari Region, Vab. ^ : Orange River Colony ; Bloemfontein, Kuntze. 



This is the Buchnera, mentioned by Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 186. 

 Chanostoma linifolia, var. hispida, Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834, collected 

 on the sides of Tiger Berg, in Cape Div., Krauss, 1637, is unknown to me. 



43. S. bracMata (Roth, Bot. Bemerk. 173) ; an undershrub, 

 perennial or sometimes in sandy ground annual, much branched, 

 procumbent or divaricately spreading, hispid, 1-2 ft. high ; floweriug 

 branches ascending, leafy, usually opposite ; leaves opposite, ellip- 

 tical, obovate or oblong, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, spreading, 

 subsessile or shortly petiolate, few-toothed, flat or narrowly revolute 



