﻿Sutera.1 sceophulariace^ (Hiern). 275 



Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Maq. i. 379, and in DC. Trodr. 

 X. 359. 



SoPTH Afbica: without locality; Thunherg ! 



Coast Region, between 400 and 2000 ft. : Piquetber^ T>W. ; Piquet Berg, 

 SchlecMer, 5200 ! bills near Porterville, Schlechter, 10737 1 Worcester Div. ; 

 Hex River Kloof, Drege, 4721 ! Wolley Dcd, 4001 ! Hex Hirer Valley, Bolus, 

 7997 ! Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Harvey ! Wolley Bod, 140 ! and in Herb. 

 Bolus, 7976 ! Ecklon ! Swellendam Div. ; Karoo ridges in Kannaland, Zeyher, 

 3512 ! Riversdale Div. ; between Gauritz Eiver and Groote Vals River, Bwrchell, 

 6519 ! near Gauritz River Bridge, Galpin, 4373 ! Mossel Bay Div. ; eastern bank 

 of the Little Bi-ak River, Burchell, 6181 1 



46. S. foetida (Eoth, Bot. Bemerk. 172) ; an annual herb, almost 

 or quite shrubby at the base, more or less viscid-glandular, |— 3 ft. 

 high, branched ; stem erect ; branches opposite or alternate, 

 divaricate or ascending, leafy; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 ovate or elliptical, obtuse or subacute, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 mostly incise-dentate, membranous, somewhat shining, fetid, bitter 

 to the taste, i-2 in. long, ^1\ in. broad ; lower petioles up to 1 or 

 1|- in. long ; flowers white or pale violet, i-i in. long, racemose and 

 axillary; peduncles l-l-flowered, J— 1 in. long, alternate ; secondary 

 pedicels shorter ; bracts smaller than the leaves ; calyx f-^ in. long, 

 deeply 5-lobed ; segments sublinear, acuminate, rather fleshy ; 

 corolla-tube subcylindrical, rather slender, l~^ in. long, very nearly 

 glabrous, somewhat curved above ; limb spreading, ^-^ in. in diam. ; 

 segments subequal, |-|- in. long, obovate-oval, rounded ; throat 

 yellow, somewhat finely pilose; stamens didynamous, glabrous; 

 filaments short, inserted near the mouth of the corolla; anthers 

 rounded, sulphur-yellow, two included, tw© shortly exserted ; style 

 about equalling the corolla-tube ; ovary green, ovoid ; capsule oval- 

 oblong, glabrous, septicidal, |-i in. long; seeds numerous, ovoid, 

 angular, ferruginous or dusky. Buchnera fcetida, Andr. Bot. Rep. 

 ii- t. 80 ; Spreng. in Sehrad. Joiim. ii. 196 ; Jacq. Hart. Schoenhr. 

 iv. 23, t. 448. Manulea alterniflora, Desf. Tahl. L'Ecole Bot. 60. 

 M, alternifolia, Pers. Syn. ii. 148. M. fo&tida, Pers. I.e. M. 

 aequipetala, Sternberg in Bot. Zeit. vi. (1807) 340. Palmstruckia 

 fcetida, Retz. f. Ohs. Bot. Pugill. 15. Chanostoma fc&tidum, Benth. 

 in EooJc. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in DC. Prodr. x. 357 ; Kraues 

 in Flora, 1844, 835. Chcenostma fatidum, Drege, Zwei PJlan- 

 zengeogr. Documente, 95, 172. 



Coast Region, between 500 and 1800 ft. : ClanwiUiam Div. ; Heerelogement, 

 Zeyher, 1117; Blue Berg, SchlecMer, 8i50; Piquetberg Div.; mountain slopes 

 near Piquiniers Kloof, Schlechter, 4953 1 Tnlbagh Div. ; Mosterts Berg, Bolus, 

 5214 ! Worcester Div. ; kloof east of Hex River Station, Wolley Dad, 4000 I 

 George Div. ; in the Outeniqua forests, Krauss ! 



Cknteai Region : Ceres Div. ; at Yuk River or near Tuk River Hoogte, 

 Burchell, 1278 ' 

 JJ'ESTEBif Region: Little Namaqualand; near Zwart Doom River, below 

 1000 ft., Brege, 3118b f 



This is probably one of the 7 species of Erinus mentioned by Burchell, Trav. 

 S- ^/r. i. 225. 



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