﻿282 SCEOPHULAEIACEJ: (Hiern). [Sutera. 



pubescent with "whitish hairs on both faces, f-l^ in. long, i-1 J in. 

 broad ; petioles up to f in. long, whitish hirsute ; flowers about 

 i in. long, from the axils of the upper leaves and crowded, forming 

 together dense terminal leafy heads ; peduncles up to | in. long, 

 whitish hirsute ; calyx i in. long, deeply 5-lobed ; segments linear- 

 subulate, hirsute-glandular with whitish hairs, ^-^ in. long ; corolla 

 rather sparingly glandular and hirsute outside ; tube subcylindrical, 

 shortly exceeding the calyx, slightly curved, about ^ in. broad, 

 a little narrower below and a little broader above ; throat somewhat 

 bearded; limb spreading, lobes oval-oblong, rounded, entire, 

 _i__i. in. long ; stamens included, glabrous ; upper pair inserted 

 above the middle of the corolla-tube, lower pair about the middle ; 

 filaments short ; anthers all fertile, one-celled, oval-oblong, -gV-^T ^^' 

 long ; style columnar-filiform, minutely glandular, ^ in. long ; 

 ovary glabrous ; capsule oval, apiculate, glabrous, \ in. long. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Kornet Spruit, between the 

 Orange River and Caledon River, 5000-6000 ft., Zeyher ! 



60. S. Cooperi (Hiern) ; shrubby at least below, softly pubescent, 

 apparently perennial and about 2 ft. high ; stem erect or ascending, 

 woody and subterete below, roundly or obtusely angular above, 

 rigid, loosely branched ; branches opposite, moderately leafy, 

 divaricate or erect-patent, ascending, the lower sometimes pro- 

 cumbent, the upper wiry ; leaves opposite, broadly ovate, obtuse or 

 almost rounded, broadly cordate or shortly narrowed at the base, 

 membranous, pallid, more or less strigulose-pubescent especially 

 beneath, incise and often doubly dentate, sometimes sparingly lobed, 

 ■|-li in. long, i-li in. broad ; petioles up to nearly 1 in. long ; 

 flowers racemose and axillary, rather numerous, ^-f in. long; 

 racemes simple and somewhat compound, comparatively dense, 

 oblong at least in fruit ; bracts smaller than the leaves, wedge- 

 shaped at the base ; pedicels short, -^\ in. long, viscid-puberulous ; 

 calyx ^-| in. long, viscid-puberulous, deeply 5-lobed ; segments 

 linear-subulate, acute ; corolla-tube cylindrical, straight or nearly so, 

 sparingly glandular-puberulous outside, about i in. long, -^-to ^^■ 

 broad ; throat hairy ; limb spreading, i-| in. in diam., hairy about 

 the base above ; lobes oval or obovate-oblong, rounded, entire, 

 "s-i in. long ; stamens and style included ; capsules oval, xo~8 ^^• 

 long. 



Kalahari Region -. Basuto-land ; near Bethesda, Cooper, 732 ! 



61. S. ochracea (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, rather slender, 

 shortly pubescent above, simple or branched, |-1 ft. high ; branches 

 opposite or alternate, divaricate, ascending, slender, tetragonous, 

 shortly pubescent towards the apex ; internodes mostly exceeding 

 the leaves ; leaves opposite or alternate, ovate or oval-oblong, or the 

 upper lanceolate, obtuse, more or less wedge-shaped or the upper 

 obtuse at the base, dentate or repand or the uppermost somewhat 



