﻿280 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiem). [Sutera. 



branches prostrate or erect, moderately leafy ; leaves opposite, 

 roundly ovate, usually very obtuse, subtruncate or cordate at or near 

 the base, dentate, submembranous, more or less pubescent or puberu- 

 lous, usually thinly so, i-l in, long, |-1 in. broad ; petioles up to 

 i in. long; flowers few, axillary, |— | in. long ; peduncles 1 -flowered, 

 ^1 in. long ; calyx hispid or hirsute, deeply 5-lobed, ^-^ in. long 

 or in fruit somewhat longer ; segments linear-subulate ; corolla white ; 

 tube i-| in. long, cylindrical-funnel-shaped, nearly straight or a 

 little curved, thinly pubescent outside ; throat glabrous ; limb | in. 

 in diam. ; lobes obovate -oblong, rounded, entire, i-| in. long ; 

 stamens didynamous, included ; capsule ellipsoidal, ^ in. long. 

 Manuka cordata, Thunb. Prodr. 102, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 473 ; 

 Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835. Chcenostoma cordatum, Benth. in 

 Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in DC. Prodr. x. $57 ; Krauss 

 in Flora, 1844, 835. 



Vab. j3. hirsntior (Hiern) ; hoary-pubescent. Chcenostoma cordatum, var. 

 hirsutior, Benth. II. cc. Chcenostoma pauciflorum, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogi'. 

 Documente, 52, 172 {letter h, not letter a), not 59. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! 



Coast Regiow, between 300 and 2000 ft.: Knysna Div.; Euigte Valley, 

 Drige, 7912 ! ZitziiaTnina Forest, Krauss, 1134 ! Knysna, Pappe ! near Stofpad, 

 Burcliell, 5289 1 near Melville, Burchell, 5476 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Kraka- 

 kamma, Burchell, 4651 ) Ecklon ! Alexandria Div. ; Olifants Hoek, Echlon and 

 Zei/7ier, 75! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, BurcJiell, 3817! Albany Div.; 

 near Grahamstown, Qalpin, 182! Guthrie, 3318! Howison's Poort, Cooper, 

 1911 1 and without precise locality, Bowker ! Cooper, 2866 ! King Williamstown 

 Div. ; Perie Mountains, Scott-Elliot, 933 ! Var. ;8, Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, 

 on the Balfour side, Baur, 863 ! 



Centbal Region : Var. fi, Aliwal Div. ; Witte Bergen, 5000-6000 ft. , Brege I 



Eastern Region : Var. /3, Tembuland Div. ; at Clarkes Drift, Qumaacu 

 River, 3000 ft., Bolus, 8763 ! 



56. S. palleseens (Hiern) ; subherbaceous at least above, perhaps 

 perennial, pale green ; stems prostrate or rambling, slender, wiry, 

 elongated, branched, with some spreading whitish pubescence; 

 branches alternate or opposite, shaggy-pubescent, erect or ascending, 

 curved or tortuous ; branchlets very slender, alternate or opposite, 

 densely pubescent,, curved or zigzag, moderately leafy; leaves 

 opposite or alternate, broadly ovate or elliptical, obtuse or apiculate, 

 subtruncate or more or less wedge-shaped at the base, coarsely 

 dentate, membranous, more or less sprinkled with short whitish hairs 

 on both faces and margin, i-1 in. long, \-^ in. broad ; petioles up 

 to I in. long, pubescent, flattened ; flowers axillary and subterminal, 

 together forming terminal lax racemes, rather numerous, white, about 

 iV in. long when expanded ; peduncles up to % in. long, slender, 

 shaggy ; calyx about ^ in. long, shaggy outside, smooth and shining 

 inside, campanulate, 5-cleft about half-way down; lobes subulate 

 from a lanceolate base, acute, thin, somewhat unequal, about 

 tV-to ^^- l<^^g ; corolla-tube about f in. long, cylindrical-funnel- 

 shaped, gradually dilated upwards from about the middle, nearly 

 glabrous, minutely sessile-glandular ; limb subbilabiate, more or less 



