﻿Sutera.'] sceophulaeiacej: (Hiern). 273 



on the margin, i-li in. long, ^^-l in. broad; flowers i-i in. long, 

 axillary and racemose, numerous, forming terminal lax leafy and 

 bracteate racemes ; pedicels or peduncles 1-flowered, usually opposite, 

 |— f in. long J bracts leafy, smaller than the leaves ; calyx i-^ in. 

 long, hispid, deeply lobed ; lobes linear-subulate ; corolla pale rosy 

 or whitish ; tube subcylindrical, straight or a little curved, -j-f in. 

 long, minutely puberulous outside ; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded, 

 entire, |~|- in. long ; throat somewhat finely pilose or naked ; stamens 

 didynamous, one pair included, the other pair equalling the corolla- 

 tube or shortly exserted ; pollen oval, smooth, marked with 3 furrows, 

 with a depression in each furrow; capsule oval or ovoid-oblong, 

 glabrous, i-^ in. long. Manulea hispida, TJiunb. Prodr. 102, and 

 Fl. Cap. ed. Schidt. 473. M. oppositiflora. Vent. Jard. Malm. t.\5\ 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 236, Chcenostoma hispidum, Benth. 

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

 C. cuneatum, Benth., II. cc. Chosnostoma hispidum, Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 106 {hispida), 172. Sutera opposHifolia, 

 Both ex Benth. in DC, I.e.; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 467. 

 8. cuneata, 0. Kuntze, I.e. Buehnera oppositifoUa, Hort. ex Steud., 

 Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. 234, 338. M. oppositifoUa, Horf. ex Steud., 

 Ic. ii. 99. Pluken. Almagest, t. 320, fig. 6. 



South Africa : without locality, Masson! Auge ! Nelson! Oldenburg, 102 i 

 336 ! and cultivated specimens ! 



Coast Region, between 200 and 2200 ft. : Clanwillian Div. ; GraaflF Water, 

 Schlechter, 8569 ! Piquetberg Div. ; Zeyher, 1293 partly ! Tulbagh Div. ; 

 Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 2618 ! Paarl Div. ; hills near Paarl, Bolus, 2869 ! Cape 

 Div. ; hills around Cape Town and other parts of the Cape Peninsula, Thunberg ! 

 Harvey! Brige, 7911b, 7911c! Bolus, 3301! 3301b! Kraniss ! Wright! 

 Wolley Dod, 141 1 142 ! 778 ! 2771 1 2935 ! 3025 I EcMon, 497 ; MacOillivray, 

 567 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, EcUon ! Caledon Div. ; 

 Zwart Berg, Zeylier, 1293 1 Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 7557 1 Lowrys Pass, 

 Schlechter, 7811! Bredasdorp Div.; Micr Kraal, Schlechter, 10499 partly! 

 Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4376 ! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, 

 MacOwan ! Bolus, 7899! Bolton! Williamson! Harrisons Poort, Hutton! 

 Centeal Eegion : Albert Div. ; top of Witte Bergen, Cooper, 2872 ! 

 The colour of the flowers is normally white ; but near the sea, where the plant 

 hecomes stunted and more densely pubescent, the corolla becomes pale rosy 

 (Wolley Dod). 

 Thunberg, PI. Cap., I.e., mentions four yarleties of If. hispida :— 

 «• Branches more or less elongated. 

 p. Leaves larger or smaller, more or leas strongly serrate. 

 y. Hairiness more or less dense. 

 S. Branches secund. 



Bentham in DC, I.e.. gives Irev^ora as a doubtfnl variety of C. hispidum ; 

 corolla-tube abbreviated, the throat wider. He thought that it was perhaps a 

 hybrid since it grew in English gardens in company with the typical form ot the 

 species and with S. carulea and was intermediate in character between them ; he 

 ^ad not seen a wild specimen of the variety ; cf. Manulea oppositifoUa, Dest. 

 Cat. Hort. Paris, ed. 2, 60. 



C. cuneatum, Benth., 11. cc, may be regarded as a variety with the leaves 

 smaller than usual, being A-* in. long and nearly as broad ; the whole plant is 

 «tfongly hispid; it was found hy Ecklon, 77 ! at Palmiet Biver m the Caledon 

 l>iv. and among the Hottentots Holland Mountains. 



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