﻿290 sCEOPHi'LAEiACE^ (Hiem). [Sntera. 



Sclilechfer, 80(i7 I Clanwilliam Div. ; near Clanwillinm, Leipnldt, 314! Olifants 

 River Mountaius, Sc/dechter, 5086 ! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Kloof, Bolus, 5467! 

 Mosterts Hoek, SchlecMer, 420 ! Paarl Div. ; between Paarl Mountain and 

 Paarde Berg, Brege. Cape Div. ; vicinity of Cape Tonrn, Thunherg ! Drege, 390 ! 

 Wnlley Dad, 408 ! 1703 ! 2982 ! Harvey, 456! Bolus, 3890, an<l in Berh. Norm. 

 495 ! Mossel Bay Div. ; between Hnrtenbosli and Mossel Bay, BurcheU, 6221! 



Central Eegion ; Calvinia Div.; Brand Vley, Johanssen, 2! Bitterfontein, 

 Zeyher, 1309 ! Graaflf Reinet Div. ; Karoo, Ecklon ^ ZeyJier, 387 ! Fraserbnrp; 

 Div.; between Kltin Qnaggas Fontein and the Dwaal River, BurcheU, li4^- 

 Var. 0, Calvinia Div. ; Hantam Mountains, Meyer. 



Western Region, betw.en 500 and 2000 ft. : Little Namaqaaland; hills 

 near Groene River, Drege ! Noagas, Drege, 3138c ! near Eleven Mile station, 

 Bolus in Herh. Norm. 662 ! and without precise locality, Morris in Herh. Bolus, 

 5740! Zabies, Max SchlecMer, 9i ! Little Bnshmanlaud ; Kraiwater, Max 

 SchlecMer, 85! Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Zout River, SchlecMer, 8125! Karree 

 Bergen, Schlechter, 8181 ! 



This is one of the 2 species of Erinus, mentioned by Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. 

 i. 277, note. 



74. S. lyehnidea (Hiern) ; shrubby below, herbaceous above, erect, 

 or suberect, 1-2 ft. high ; stems viscid-scabrid or nearly glabrous, 

 robust, subterete, erect or procumbent ; branches usually alternate, 

 leafy, purplish, turning dusky when dried ; leaves opposite or 

 alternate or quasi- fasciculate, oblong, oblanceolate or sublinear, 

 obtuse, wedge-sbaped or alternate at the base, dentate or subentire, 

 rather thickly membranous, scabrid-puberulous or nearly glabrous, 

 ■|-2 in. long, yV^a i"- broad ; the lower shortly petiolate ; the upper 

 sessile ; flowers numerous, axillary or bracteate, forming terminal 

 elongating spikes dense above and laxer below, purple, fragrant; 

 about 1 in. lonjj, very shortly stalked or subsessile ; bracts like the 

 leaves but smaller, entire, pubescent or ciliate, longer than the calyx, 

 free ; pedicels up to i in. long, pubescent ; calyx oblong, i-i in- 

 long in flower, x-i in. long in fruit, deeply 5-lobed, pubescent; 

 segments linear, obtuse, erect ; corolla-tube narrowly cylindrical, 

 about 1 in. long, slightly dilated curved and gibbous at the top, 

 viscid-pubescent outside with pointed hairs ; limb spreading, 

 }~^ in. in diam. ; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded, entire, |-i in- l«"g ' 

 stamens included ; capsule ovoid-oblong, glandular, pabescent, 

 i-1 in. long, i-i in. broad. Selago Lyehnidea, Linn. Pl.Rar- Af^- 

 12, Manulea Hchnidea, Desroms. in Lam. Encycl. Jii- 7^'- 

 Erinus fragrans, Ait. Hort. Keiv. ed. i. ii. 357a, not /3. Erinni 

 li/chnideus, Thunb. Prodr. 102, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 474 

 {ticlinideus), excl. syn. Lyperia fragrans, Benth. in Hook. Comp. 

 Bat. Mag. i. 378, and in DC. Prodr. x. 358. L. macrocarpa, Benth. 

 11. cc. Lyehnidea villosa, foliis oblongis, dentatis, florihus spicatts, 

 Barm. Par. Afr. PI. Beeas v. 138, i. xlix.^^. 4. Euphrasia ajints 

 Africana, Pedicularis folio villoso. floribus prmlnngis tubis profunde 

 luUatis donata, Ray, Hist. Plant, iii* 401. 



South Africa : without locality, Pajipe, 59 ! Masson I Thunherg ! Serl- 

 Burmann ! 



Coast Region, below 500 ft. : Malmesbury Div. ; Saldanha Bay, B^JS"' 

 1320 ! Cape Div. ; hills near Simonstown, Galpin, 4372 ! shores at False B^y-^ 

 Bolus Ml Herh. Norm, 1330! Hont B,iy, Harvey, 197! Wolhy Dod, 1/0/- 



