﻿278 scrophulariacej: (Hiern). [Sutera. 



pubescent on both faces, membranous, i-2 in. long, ^5-!^ in. broad ; 

 petioles up to ^ in. long or rarely to nearly 1 in, ; flowers very 

 numerous, -J-f in. long, racemose or cymose ; racemes rather short, 

 simple or compound, arranged in terminal leafy elongated pubescent 

 sometimes purplish panicles ; pedicels opposite or terminal, pubescent, 

 rather slender, short or rarely up to 1 in. long ; bracts opposite, 

 lanceolate or subulate, smaller than the leaves, pubescent, mostly 

 • acute, entire or sparingly toothed ; calyx hispid or pubescent, i-| in. 

 long, rather deeply 5-lobed ; segments lanceolate-linear, subulate 

 towards the apex, acute ; corolla white or orange and white ; tube 

 rather slender, cylindrical-funnel-shaped, nearly straight or a little 

 curved, ^-^ in. long, pubescent outside ; throat yellow, glabrous or 

 nearly so ; limb |— | in. in diam. ; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded, 

 entire, xo^i ^^- ^o'^g 5 stamens didynamous ; filaments sometimes 

 finely pilose near the apex ; anthers rounded, rather large, the upper 

 situate at or near the throat of the corolla, the low^er included ; stj'le 

 exserted ; capsule ovoid or oblong, glabrous, |-|^ in. long. ChcBnos- 

 ioma florihundum, Bentli. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 376, and in 

 DC. Prodr.x. 356, Chcenostoma floribundum, Lrege, Zioei Pfianzen- 

 geogr. Doeumente, 147, 160 (floribunda), 172. Manulea floribunday 

 O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. Pi. iii. ii. 235. 



Kalahabi Eegion, at about 5000 ft. : Orange River Colony ; Bethlehem, 

 Bolws, 8227! TransTaal; Houtbosh, Ee/imann, 6176 ! Pilgrims Rest Gold Fields, 

 McLea in Herh. Bolus, 3032 ! Waterval River, Wilms, 1062 ! 



Eastern Region, ascending from 50 to 5000 ft.: Tembuland ; -between 

 Bashee River and Morley, Drege I near Bazeia River, Baur, 55 ! near Engcobo, 

 Bolus, 8759! Pcmdo-land ; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! Griqualand East; 

 around Clydesdale, Tyson, 2111! and in MacOwan and Bolus Herb. Norm., 

 1220 I hills about Kokstad, Tyson, 1419 ! Natal ; near Durban, Dre^e, 7909^ ! 

 Wood, 44 ! Cooper, 2865 ! at Claremont, SchlecUer, 2834 ! Van Reenens Pass, 

 Kuntze ! near Boston, Wood, 4750 ! Groen Berg ! Wood, 579 ! Weenen County, 

 Wood, 4450 ! near the sources of Buishmans River, Evans, 653 ! and without 

 precise locality. Grant ! Gerrard, 28 1 377 ! Gooper, 1180 ! 



52. S. tenella (Hiern) ; a low herb, somewhat woody below, a 

 few inches high; branches wiry-herbaceous, minutely glandular- 

 pilose towards the extremities, rather slender, angular, leafy ; leaves 

 alternate, broadly ovate, obtuse, subtruncate or very obtuse at the 

 base, firmly membranous, somewhat finely glandular- pilose on both 

 faces, rather dark green above, paler beneath, coarsely dentate, 

 \-l in. long and broad; petioles \-% in. long, finely pilose; 

 flowers axillary, solitary, i in. long ; peduncles very slender, 

 finely glandular- pilose, about 1 in. long, ebracteate ; calyx about 

 tV-to in- long, glandular-pilose or ciliolate ; posterior segment linear, 

 the others linear-oblong, all obtuse and erect ; corolla _ nearly 

 glabrous ; lobes nearly equal ; limb i in, in diam. ; stamens inserted 

 about the middle of the corolla-tube ; style slender, glabrous, about 

 \ in. long. 



Kalahari Region : Griqtialand West, Hay Div. ; on the plain at the foot of 

 the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2071 ! 



