﻿286 scrophulariace;e (Hiem). [^Sutera. 



67. S. macrosiph.011 (Hiern) ; a weak undershrub, erect, pale 

 green, branched, about 1 ft. high ; branches numerous, decumbent or 

 ascending, slender, wiry ; branchlets erect, terete, subglabrous or 

 glandular-puberulous ; leaves opposite, linear or linear-spathulate, 

 acute at the apex or obtusely narrowed at both ends, sessile or sub- 

 sessile or at times attenuate into the very short petiole, very thinly 

 puberulous, nearly flat or narrowly revolute on the margin, -^1 in. 

 long, ^-^ in. broad ; internodes as long as or shorter than the 

 leaves ; flowers -|-1 in. long, mauve, axillary and arranged in terminal 

 leafy racemes ; bracts leaf- like, the uppermost shorter ; pedicels 

 suberect, slender, filiform, very shortly puberulous, exceeding or 

 about equalling the leaves or bracts, i-f in. long ; calyx |— f in. 

 long, somewhat inconspicuously puberulous, deeply lobed or cleft 

 half-way down ; segments subequal, linear-setaceous oc -attenuate, 

 acute ; corolla shortly puberulous outside ; tube slender, cylindrical, 

 elongated, straight, somewhat dilated towards the throat, f- 1 ^n. 

 long ; lobes rounded, obtuse, entire, scarcely or about ^- in. long; 

 the throat naked, finely pilose ; stamens glabrous ; filaments short ; 

 one pair of anthers included ; style filiform, as long as the corolla- 

 tube, glabrous, slightly exceeding the longer pair of stamens or 

 about equalling the shorter pair ; capsule ovoid-oblong or oblong, 

 glabrous, as long as the calyx or shorter, about \ in. long or 

 more. Chcenostoma macrosiphon, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 

 502. 



Coast Region : Qaeenstown Div. ; in rocky places at the top of the Andries- 

 berg Range, near Bailey, about 6400 ft., Qalpin, 2004 ! 



Cbntbal Eegion, between 4000 and 7400 ft. : Graaflf Reinet Div. ; in the 

 valleys of the Sneeuwberg Range, Bolus, 1976 ! below precipices on the side 

 of the Compass Berg, Bolus, 1976 ! SJiaw, 126 ! Colesberg Div. ; Colesberg, 

 Bhaw ! 



68. S. violacea (Hiern) ; an erect shrub, 3-4 ft. high, more or 

 less branched ; branches erect, terete, very thinly or obsoletely 

 puberulous, dusky or ashy; branchlets alternate or opposite, 

 glandular-puberulons, densely leafy ; leaves linear, obtuse, somewhat 

 narrowed towards the sessile base, revolute on the margin, entire, 

 very minutely puberulous on both faces, pale yellowish-green when 

 dried, up to 1 in. long, ^^ in. broad, the lower opposite, the upper 

 alternate ; flowers axillary, solitary, shortly pedunculate, i-f i"^- 

 long ; peduncles shorter than the calyx-segments, up to ^ in. long ; 

 calyx deeply 5-cleft, i in. long ; segments linear-subulate and sub- 

 acute or sublinear and obtuse, erect, puberulous ; corolla violet in 

 the living state, turning blue in drying ; tube cylindrical, somewhat 

 dilated towards the apex, nearly straight, minutely puberulous 

 outside, f-| in, long ; lobes oblong-rotund, very obtuse, spreading. 



^ in. long, i~i in. broad ; one pair of stamens shortly exceeding 

 i-tube; style filiform, exceeding the stamens; capsule 



the corolla 

 ovoid or o 

 i in. long 

 xxvii. 180. 



txio i^uiuua-Luue, siyie niiiorm, exceeding tne stamens; ^af""- 

 ovoid or oblong, glabrous, somewhat shorter than the calyx, about 

 i in. long. Chcenostoma violaceum, Schlechter in Engl. Jahro. 



