﻿284 scEOPHTJLAEiACE^ (Hiem). [Sutera, 



acute, obliquely truncate at the base, serrate, |-f in. long, ^ in. 

 broad ; petiole |-| in. long ; flowers axillary ; peduncles |-f in. 

 long during tbe flowering, scarcely lengthened in fruit, straight, 

 about equalling the floral leaf or exceeding it; calyx-segments 

 subulate, i in. long ; corolla-tube glabrescent, about \ in. long ; lobes 

 shortly bifid, about i in. long and yV in. broad ; capsules ovoid, 

 -^-i in. long, i in. broad. Chcenostoma gracile, Diels in Engl. Jahrh. 

 xxiii. 476. 



Centeai Region : Calvinia Diy. ; Hantam mountains, Meyer ! 



Nearly related to Lyperia racemosa, Benth., but much more glabrous, shorter, 

 and with smaller leaves and capsules; the calyx is larger with narrower segments, 

 and the corolla-lobes are only half as large. 



64. S. dielsiana (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, viscid- 

 pubescent with short glandular hairs, branched or nearly simple, 

 6-12 in. high ; branches opposite or the upper alternate, divaricate 

 or ascending, moderately leafy ; leaves opposite or the upper alter- 

 nate, ovate, sublanceolate or narrowly elliptical, obtusely narrowed or 

 subacute, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, serrate -dentate, 

 more or less petiolate or the uppermost sessile, membranous, 

 glandular, ciliolate, somewhat shining, ^l-^- in. long, |— | in. broad ; 

 lower petioles up nearly to i in. long ; flowers axillary and sub- 

 terminal, f-|- in. long when expanded, numerous, together formmg 

 terminal leafy racemes dense at the apex and lax below ; peduncles 

 1-flowered, divaricate, viscid-pubescent, up to -I— If in. long ; calyx 

 •|-i in. long, viscid-pubescent, deeply 5-lobed ; segments somewhat 

 unequal oblong- or lanceolate-linear, obtuse ; corolla-tube cylindrical 

 below, a little dilated, curved and gibbous above, sparingly glandular- 

 pubescent, |-f in. long ; limb spreading, glabrous, striate, l-f in- "^ 

 diam, ; lobes i— | in. long, obovate-oblong, subtruncate, broadly 

 emarginate or excise ; stamens included ; style nearly glabrous, 

 bifid at the stigmatic apex, filiform, |-|- in. long, included within 

 the corolla-tube; capsule ovoid-oblong, pallid, shining, sparingly 

 glandular-papillose, i-i in. long, -i-i in. broad. Lyperia racemosa, 

 Benth. in EooJc. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 378, and in DC. Prodr. %. 359. 

 Chcenostoma racemosum, Weitst. ex Biels in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 489, 

 not of Benth. 



Western Eigion, between 500 and 2000 ft. : Little Namaqualand ; near the 

 mouth of the Orange River, Zeyher ! by the Zwartdoorn Eiver, Drege, 31180 1 

 Spektakel Mountain, near Naries, Bolus in Herh. Norm. 663 ; Louis Fontein, 

 Zeyher, 1225! and without precise locality, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5739- 

 Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; near Mieren Kasteel, Drege, 3118a I Karree Bergen, 

 Bchlechter, 8171 ! 



65. S. integerrima (Hiern) ; an undershrub, woody below, sub- 

 herbaceous at the top, nearly glabrous, minutely glandular-puberulous, 

 somewhat viscid and shining, much branched, perennial, 1-li ft* ^^S^ ' 

 branches opposite and decussate or the upper alternate, slender, "wiry> 

 rather rigid, subvirgate or flexuous, auberect or ascending ; internodes 



