﻿Sutera.'] scrophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 285 



mostly exceeding the leaves ; leaves opposite or alternate, sometimes 

 quasi- fasciculate, narrowly oblanceolate or sublinear, obtuse, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, quite entire or occasionally sparingly-toothed, 

 firm, minutely glistening with small sessile or hair-like glands, 

 ■rV-f in. long, gV"! i^- broad ; petioles up to about i in. long ; 

 flowers racemose, rather numerous, about |- in. long when expanded, 

 orange-coloured ; racemes lax, terminal, somewhat flexuous, oblong, 

 corymbosely arranged; pedicels 1-flowered, rigid, ^-1 in. long; 

 bracts solitary, basal^ sublinear, smaller than the leaves ; calyx 

 i in. long in flower, -|— i in. long in fruit, glandular-puberuloua, 

 deeply 5-lobed ; segments linear, obtuse ; corolla-tube about ^ in. 

 long, glandular-puberulous outside, subcylindrical, rather slender, 

 somewhat dilated curved and ventricose near the top ; limb 

 spreading, about ^ in. in diameter ; lobes oval-rotund, rounded, 

 entire, about ^ in. long ; stamens and style included ; capsule oblong, 

 glandular-squamulose, about -^ in. long. Lyperia integerrima, 

 Bentli. in DC. Prodr. x. 359, partly ; Engl. Jahrb. x. 254. Manulea 

 linifolia, O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 235, partly; not of 

 Thunberg. 



Kaiahabi Region : Bechuanaland ; on the rocks at Chue Vley, Burehell, 

 2393 ! between Kuruman and the Vaal Eiver (a form with the leaves sometimes 

 few toothed), Gruichshank in Herb. Bolus, 2544 ! stonj places near Euruman, 

 Marloth, 1085. 



66. S. asbestina (Hiern) ; an undershrub, woody and intricately 

 branched below, subherbaceous and divaricately branched near the 

 top, nearly glabrous, minutely glandular-papillose above, somewhat 

 viscid and shining, apparently perennial, spreading or suberect, 

 i-1 ft. high ; branches opposite or alternate, rather slender, wiry, 

 rigid, divaricate, procumbent or ascending, older ones pallid; 

 branehlets green, leafy ; leaves obovate or oblanceolate, rounded or 

 apiculate, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, opposite or the 

 upper alternate, occasionally quasi-fasciculate, firm, glistening with 

 small sessile glands, entire or sparingly toothed, i-f in. long, 

 iV~i^ in. broad ; petioles up to about J~ in. long ; flowers axillary 

 and racemose, rather few, about f in. long when expanded, white ; 

 racemes lax, terminal, at first corymbose, afterwards elongated and 

 oblong, corymbosely arranged ; pedicels i-^in. long, rigid, 1-flowered ; 

 bracts spathulate or sublinear, smaller than the leaves ; calyx ^V in. 

 long in flower, about i in. long in fruit, glandular, deeply 5-lobed ; 

 segments linear, obtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, slender, dilated, 

 and curved near the top, minutely glandular-papillose outside ; limb 

 spreading, about |- in. in diam. ; lobes broadly ovate, i-| in. long ; 

 stamens and style included; capsule ovoid-oblong, somewhat 

 glandular scaly, i-i in. long. Lyperia integerrima, Benth. in DC. 

 ^rodr. X. 359, partly. Manulea linifolia, var. y integerrima^ O. 

 Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 235. 



Kalahari Region: Griqualand West, Hay Div. ; Asbestos Mountains near 

 the Kloof VUIage, Burehell, 1665 ! 2056 ! 



