﻿288 scROPHULAEiACEiE (Hiem). [Sutera. 



Westeek Ession, between 500 and 1500 ft. : Little Namaqaaland ; by the 

 Groene Eiver, Drege, 3095a ! between Hollegat River and the Orange 

 River, Drege, 3095i ; hanging from clefts of rocks near Klipfontein, Bolus, 

 6567 ! between the Kaniiesberg Range and the mouth of the Orange River, 

 Zei/her ! on hills at Eenkokerboom, Schlechter, 11052 ! Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; 

 Sarree Bergen, Zeyher, 1239! 



Also in Hereroland (Engl. Jahrh. x. 254). 



71. S. Maxii (Hiem) ; an undershrub, densely or intricately 

 branched below, ^-1 ft. high, perennial ; stems woody, rather thiek, 

 pallid or ashy, glabrous, procumbent or suberect ; branchlets 

 numerous, erect or ascending, subterete, more or less densely clothed 

 with soft pallid viscid pubescence, rigid, leafy, mostly opposite and 

 decussate, sometimes subfasciculate, the upper sometimes alternate ; 

 internodes mostly about equalling or somewhat exceeding the leaves 

 or the uppermost shorter ; leaves ovate-oval, obtuse or rounded, 

 nearly rounded or subcordate at the sessile or subsessile base, rather 

 thickly membranous, viscid-pubescent or puberulous, entire or some- 

 what dentate, ^— | in. long, ^— f in. broad ; flowers in the upper 

 axils, 1^-1 in. long, forming terminal erect leafy spicate racemes 

 which elongate in fruit ; peduncles about \ in. long or less, pubes- 

 cent ; calyx viscid-pubescent, 5-partite ; segments linear-oblong, 

 slightly and gradually widened upwards, erect, ciliate, obtuse, some- 

 what unequal, about -\ in. long in flower, |— |- in. leng in fruit ; corolla- 

 tube subcylindrical, rather slender, curved and somewhat dilated 

 gibbously towards the apex, glabrous or nearly so ; limb spreading ; 

 lobes subrotund, entire, about \ in. in diam. ; stamens and style in- 

 cluded ; capsules oblong, obsoletely glandular, |-| in. long. 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; Guos and the Tsirub Mountains, 

 Schinz, 39 ! Tiras, on granite hills, Schinz, 50 ! Little Namaqualand ; on hills, 

 near the Orange River, at Tns, 2800 ft., Schleehter, 11430 ! Little Bushmanland, 

 at Jakalswater, Max Schleehter, 6 ! 



Also in Damaraland, 



72. S. fruticosa (Hiern) ; a small shrub, 1-3 ft. high ; young 

 parts inflorescence and foliage more or less viscid-pubescent, turning 

 dusky or black when dried ; branches divaricate, ascending, opposite 

 or alternate, subterete, ashy ; branchlets leafy ; leaves opposite or 

 subopposite or sometimes alternate, silvery-shining, ovate- er oval- 

 oblong, subacute or obtuse, some-what wedge-shaped rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, firmly membranous, entire or rep and or 

 rarely few-toothed, i-1 in. long by ^-i in. broad, sessile or sub- 

 sessile ; floral leaves similar, exceeding the calyx ; flowers rather 

 numerous, very shortly stalked or subsessile, f-1 in. long, axillary 

 or bracteate at the base, in terminal leafy and bracteate 

 short or elongating spikes, bright purple; calyx oblong, pubes- 

 <!ent, i-i in. long in flower, ^-f in. long in fruit, deeply 5-lobed ; 

 segments oblong- or lanceolate-linear, obtuse; corolla-tube cylin- 

 drical, narrowly funnel-shaped and somewhat ventricose or twisted 

 towards the top, |-1 in. long, slender, glandular-puberulous, about 



