﻿Sutera.] scbophulaeiacbj: (Hiern), 281 



spreading, about i-i in. in diam., subglabrous, minutely glandular ; 

 lobes obovate-oblong, rounded, entire, J^-i in- long; stamens 

 glabrous, one pair shortly exserted, the other included; anthers 

 rounded ; style exserted, exceeding the stamens ; capsule ovoid, 

 fl-y in. long, glabrous, pallid, smooth ; seeds numerous, oval-oblong, 

 about ^ in. long. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; near Murchison, Wood, 3035 ! 



57. S. humifusa (Hiern) ; trailing, weak, slender, glandular- 

 puberulous, somewhat glossy, perhaps perennial ; stems slightly 

 shrubby below, branched, thin-wiry, 6-12 in. long; branches 

 opposite or alternate, divaricate, erect or ascending, very slender; 

 mternodes mostly equalling or exceeding the leaves, ■§-- 1^ in. long ; 

 leaves broadly ovate or obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 dentate, thinly membranous, sparingly puberulous, minutely glandular, 

 spreading, i-1 in. long, i-f in. broad ; petioles up to about | in. 

 long, those of the trailing stems erect, secund ; flowers axillary and 

 subracemose, several, about f in. long ; pedicels slender, spreading, 

 curving, minutely glandular-puberulous, ^-^ in. long; calyx 

 glandular-papillose, minutely ciliolate, 5-cleft more than half-way 

 down, i-i in. long ; lobes ovate, acuminate ; corolla-tube cylindrical- 

 funnel-shaped, weak, straight above, nearly glabrous, about ^ in. 

 long ; limb somewhat spreading, about | in. in diam. ; lobes oval- 

 oblong, entire, about ^ in, long ; stamens glabrous ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers about ^\ in. long, one pair exserted, the other about level 

 ■with the mouth of the corolla ; style filiform, glabrous, exserted ; 

 capsule oval-ovoid, obsoletely glandular, | in. long. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Inanda, Noods Berg, Wood, 124 ! 



58. S. divricata (Hiern); low, divaricately branched, slightly 

 glandular-hairy or glabrescent, 2|-10 in. high; lowest leaves 

 lanceolate, gradually attenuate towards the base into the petiole, 

 repand-serrate, If-lf in. long, f in. broad; the upper considerably 

 smaller, about |-a in. long and i in. broad ; petioles of the lowest 

 leaves about 1 in. long; floral leaves pectinate-dentate, teeth 

 equalling the breadth of the leaf (^V in. by ^V in-) ; pedicels much 

 longer than the calyx, i— | in. long, scarcely lengthening in front ; 

 calyx-segments i-i in. long; corolla-tube i-f in. long; lobes 

 8-i in. long, J^-i in. broad ; capsule ovoid-globose, as long as the 

 <^lyx. Chcsnostoma divaricatum, Biels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 476. 



Cbntral Region : Calvinia Div. ; Hantam Mountains, Meyer. 



59. S. latifolia (Hiern) ; apparently a small shrub, somewhat 

 'woody and decumbent below ; branches ascending, densely hirsute 

 ^ith whitish spreading hairs, wiry-herbaceous above, leafy at the 

 apex; leaves opposite, broadly ovate, nearly rounded at the apex, 

 shortly or abruptly narrowed and often cordate-subreniform at the 

 case, toothed or incise-dentate, herbaceous-membranous, flat, hispid- 



