﻿Sutera.] scrophulariage^ (Hiern). 291 



sand dunes near Cape Town, Zeyher, 1310 ! Brehm ! Fish Hoek, Bolus, 4868 ! 

 Wolleij Dod, 344! near Ketreat Vley, Wolley Dod, 2252 ! Eiet Valley. Ecklon S' 

 Zeyher,43-kl ^ ^ 



75. S. tenuiflora (Hiern) ; an erect herb, divaricately branched, 

 sparingly viscid- pubescent, annual, 3-9 in. high ; branches opposite 

 or alternate, procumbent or ascending, leafy ; leaves opposite or the 

 upper alternate, narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, dentate or subentire, membranous, 

 puberulous, |-Ii in. long, j\-^ in. broad, the upper subsessile; 

 petioles of the lower leaves up to ^ in. long ; flowers rather 

 numerous, purple, racemose and axillary, forming terminal leafy 

 racemes dense at the top and lax below, nearly 1 in. long ; pedicels 

 tV~4 in- long ; bracts smaller than the leaves, longer than the calyx ; 

 calyx shortly viscid-pubescent or ciliolate, i- i in. long, deeply 

 5-lobed ; segments linear, subacute ; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, 

 f-f in. long, J^ in. broad, very nearly glabrous, shining ; limb 

 spreading ; lobes obovate, rounded, entire, ^l in. long ; stamens 

 included ; style filiform, very slender, finely glandular-pilose, nearly 

 !is long as the corolla-tube; capsule ovoid-oblong, ^-^ in. long, 

 sprinkled with small shortly-stalked glands. Lyperia tenuiflora, 

 Senth. in Hook. Ornnp. Bot. Mag. i. p. 378, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 358. 



South Africa : without locality, Drege, 3610! 

 Coast Kegion : Swellendam Div. ; Hessaquas Kloof, Zeyher 1 

 Central Region : Ceres Div. ; at Yuk Kiver or near Yuk River Hoogtc, 

 Bnrchell, 1246 1 



This is probably one of the 7 species of Erinus, mentioned by Burchell, Trav. 



S.Afr. I 225. 



76. S. litoralis (Hiern) ; glandular, somewhat shrubby ; leaves 

 sublanceolate or elliptical, acute or obtuse, sessile or shortly petiolate, 

 i~T in. long, J^^-x in. broad, midrib prominent beneath ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary ;' peduncles 5V-2V i"- ^^^S' calyx-segments 5, 

 spathulate or linear, obtuse or acute, about } in. long by ^5 in. 

 troad, densely glandular-pilose; corolla-tube f-| in. long, about 

 ^V in. broad, hairy outside ; lobes oblong or subovate, about a in. 

 long by A in. broad ; filaments yV-i i°- ^°^S, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube about /^ in. above its base ; posterior anthers about 

 tV in. long; style f in. long ; capsule conical, acute, i-| in. long, 

 «— 6 in. broad ; seeds small, brownish. Li/peria litoralis, Schinz in 

 ^^rh. Bot. Brandenb. xxxi. 192. Chccnostoma littorale, Wettst. ex 

 I^iels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 477. 



Western Regiow : Great Namaqualand ; Angra Pequena, Po/i^e, Schcnk. 

 15 and Z7, Schinz. 

 Said to be nearly related to 8. fruticosa and S. amplexicmiUs. 



77. S. sessilifolia (Hiern); a rather low undershrub, brittle; 

 'tranches numerous, subdivaricate, glandular-hairy; leaves sessile, 

 oval, acute, entire or few-toothed, |-1 in. long, \-\ m. broad ; 

 "Pper leaves subamplexicaul ; floral leaves similar, mostly | in. long ; 



