﻿Sutera.] scrophulariace^ (Hiern), 289 



yV in. in diam. at the middle ; limb f-f in, in diam,, spreading ; 

 lobes oval-oblong, rounded, entire, ^-^ in. long ; stamens included ; 

 capsules ovate-oblong, sparingly glandular, |— |- in. long ; style 

 filiform, glandular-puberulous below, slightly thickened towards the 

 emarginate tip, persistent, nearly as long as the corolla-tube. Lyperia 

 fruticosum, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 358. Ghfenostoma fruticosum, IVettst. in Engl. Sf Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 69. 



Western Eegion, between 500 and 3300 ft. : Little Namaijualand ; Modder 

 Fontein, Drege, 3H7a ! near Zwartdoorn Eiver, Brege, 3117i ! near the moutli 

 of the Orange River, Drege, 7927 ! Spektakel Mountain near Naries, Bolus in 

 Herh. Norm. 665 ! Komaggie, Whitehead ! and without precise locality, Patter- 

 son ! Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Zout Eiver, Schlechter, 8145 ! 



73. S. tristis (Hiern) ; an annual herb, robust, rigid, often 

 shrubby below, erect, scentless (or the smell of the flowers but little 

 unpleasant)^ i-2 ft. high, viscid-pubescent ; stem leafy, simply 

 branched or simple ; branches erect-patent or ascending, straight or 

 flexuous, the upper alternate; leaves opposite or alternate, ovate- 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, wedge-shaped towards the base, 

 incise-dentate or subentire, suberect, veined, subsessile or subpetiolate, 

 green, paler beneath, flat, glabrous or puberulous, glandular, thinly 

 fleshy, fit for cooking, 1-2^ in. long, |-ii in. broad ; floral ones 

 rather smaller; flowers numerous, about 1 in. long, numerous, 

 subsessile or very shortly stalked, spicate and axillary, forming terminal 

 elongated or shortly leafy and bracteate spikes ; bracts smaller than 

 the leaves, longer than the calyx, about equalling or shorter than the 

 capsule, dentate or entire, free from the calyx ; spike dense at the 

 apex, interrupted below ; calyx i-i in. long in flower, i-f in. long, 

 in fruit, viscid-pubescent, deeply 5-lobed ; segments broadly linear, 

 obtuse, erect; corolla-tube cylindrical, somewhat widened at both 

 ends, ventricosely so at the apex, whitish or yellow ochre, glandular- 

 puberulous outside, scarcely or somewhat curved, 1-1} in. long, 

 about J-^ in. broad at the middle ; limb reflexed or spreading ; lobes 

 linear-oblong or obovate, entire or slightly emarginate, }-} in. long, 

 sides sometimes revolute, dirty or gloomy yellowish; stamens 

 included; filaments filiform, short; anthers dusky; stigma blunt; 

 capsules ovoid-oblong, viscid-puberulous, ^-f in. long or rather more. 

 Brinus tristis, Linn. f. Suppl. 287 ; Thunb. Prodr. 103, and Ft. 

 Gap. ed. Sdiult. 476. Lyperia tristis, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 ^ag. i. 378, and in BC. Prodr. x. 358. L. simplex, Benth. II. cc, 

 ^xd. si/n. Thunb. Chwnostoma triste, Wettst. in Engl, and Prantl, 

 pflanzenfam. iv. 3b, 69. Erinus fragrans, (3, Ait. Hori. Kew, 

 e^- i. ii. 357 ; not a. 



, Vak. 0, montana (Hiern); 4^6 in. high, less viscid; the lowest floral 

 Ifves subdentate; the lowest flowers shortly pedicellate; the ower pedicels 

 A-tV in. long. Cha^nostoma triste, var montana, Diels in Engl.Jahrh. xx.ii. 477. 



^ Coast Region, ascending from 30 to 3000 ft. : J^°'-V"^^'''? S'\' 

 Ebeuezor, Dm,e, 7900 ' near the Holle Kiver, Drege, 3138a! Wind Hoek. 



TOL. Iv.—sECT. II. ^ 



