﻿Sutera.] sceophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 277 



membranous, puberulous, |-| in. long, ^i in. broad, shortly petiolate ; 

 flowers i-|- in. long, racemose and axillary, together forming lax 

 terminal more or less leafy racemes of 2^-12 in. long; pedicels 

 ^-1 in. long, slender, pubescent, opposite, spreading ; bracts like 

 the leaves but smaller, sessile ; calyx pubescent or puberulous, 

 deeply lobed, somewhat unequal, about }-^^ in. long in flower, 

 ^^ in. long in fruit ; segments lanceolate-linear, somewhat subulate 

 at the apex ; corolla-tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped, straight or 

 nearly so, glandular-puberulous outside, orange-yellow about the 

 middle, about i in. long ; limb -^— i in. in diam. ; lobes oval-oblong, 

 rounded, entire, -^-^ in. long ; stamens included ; capsule ovoid- 

 oblong, very nearly glabrous, |— i- in. long. Ghcsnostoma racemostim, 

 Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in DC. Prodr. x. 357, 

 not of Wettst. ex Biels. Glic&nostoma racemosum, Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 136 (racemosa), 172, 



Coast Eegiott: Alexandria Div. ; between Hoffmanns Kloof and Driefontein, 

 1000-2000 ft., Drege, 2323 ! Komgha Div. ; margins of woods near Komgha, 

 2000 ft. Flanagan, 892 ! 



50. S. maritima (Hiern) ; subherbaceous, apparently perennial, 

 procumbent or ascending, 1-1 1- ft. long ; stems and branches rather 

 slender, somewhat scabrid with small papillae, pale green ; branchleta 

 alternate, ascending, more or less leafy, puberulous-scabrid towards 

 the apex ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, elliptical or obovate, 

 obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, firmly herbaceous, minutely 

 glandular-papillose, doubly incisely or irregularly dentate on the 

 upper half, i-f in. long, -^^ in. broad ; petioles yVi in- ^™g > 

 flowers racemose and axillary, numerous, |-f in. long; racemes 

 rather lax, elongated, 2i— 10 in. long ; pedicels rather slender, 

 divaricate, mostly alternate, |-li in. long, glandular-puberulous, 

 1 -flowered ; bracts smaller and narrower than the leaves, 

 dentate or entire ; calyx J^ i°- ^^^S ^^ flower, | in. long in fruit, 

 glandular, deeply 5-lobed ; segments oblong-linear, obtuse ; corolla- 

 tube subcylindrical, gradually and slightly dilated and a little curved 

 or gibbous towards the apex, sparingly pilose-glandular outside; 

 lobes spreading, subquadrate, rounded, entire, yV ^^- ^^^S'> ^^"^^ 

 about i in. in diam. ; stamens included ; style i in. long ; capsule 

 oval-ovoid, minutely or obsoletely glandular, i in. long. 



Coast Rkgion : Bathurst Div. ; shrubby places near the beach at Port 

 Alfred, 50 ft., Qal^pin, 2933! 



51. S. floribunda (0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen, PI. ii. 467) ; shrubby 

 oelow, subherbaceous above, erect or ascending, 8-30 in. high, much 

 wanched; stems erect or decumbent, puberulous below, more or 

 less viscid-pubescent above; branches opposite, usually decussate, 

 the upper pyramidally or corymbosely arranged, with rather short 

 pallid pubescence, leafy below the abundant inflorescence; leaves 

 opposite, ovate or oval, very obtuse or nearly rounded, wedge-shaped 

 at the base, dentate, more or less glandular-puberulous or shortly 



