﻿Siitera.] scrophulaeiace.e (Iliern). 293 



Kommissie Drift, Zeyher, 1298 ! Wolve Kop, Burlce, 136 ! Basutoland, Cooper, 

 2860 ! Bechuanaland, between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruickshank in 

 Herh. Bolus, 1955! Transvaal; by the Aapies River, near Pretoria, Burke! 

 Zeyher, 1300 ! Wilms, 1067o. ! Aapies Poort, Rehmann, 4120 ! near Lydenburg, 

 Wibns, 1067 ! Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1303 ! north of Yuckschyt River, Nelson, 

 524 ! 



Easteen Region : Tembnland ; between Engcobo and Nquamakwe, Bolus, 

 8757! Natal; Mohlamba Range, Sutherland ! between Greytown and Newcastle, 

 Wilms, 2187 ! near Newcastle, Wood, 5867 ! Zululand, Qerrard, 1517 I 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



79. S. pristisepala (Hiern) ; an undershrub, closely branched, 

 about 1 ft. high ; stems ascending, glabrous below ; branchlets sub- 

 parHllel, approximate, opposite or subfascicnlate, subterete, rigid, 

 divaricate or ascending, glandular-papillose, 2-9 in. long ; papillae 

 shining, silvery ; internodes about equalling the leaves ; leaves 

 opposite or the upper alternate, often quasi-fasciculate, ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, pinnatipartite, obtuse, subtruneate or obtuse at the 

 base, glandular-papillose, |^-^in. long, tV~3^'^- broad ; segments incise- 

 pinnatifid or few toothed or the upper entire ; petioles up to ^ in. 

 long, somewhat dilating and clasping at the base ; flowers purple, 

 subspicate or the lower axillary, numerous, about \ in. long ; spikes 

 1-5 in. long; pedicels very short, in fruit up to j\ in. long; bracts 

 alternate, like the leaves but smaller; calyx deeply 5-lobed, 

 glandular-papillose outside, glabrous within, about yV i"- '°"8 i" 

 flower and i in. long in fruit ; segments obovate-oblong, incise or 

 denticulate, obtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, curved and slightly 

 or scarcely dilated above, glandular-papillose above, nearly glabrous 

 below, about i in. long and ^V in- in diam. about the middle; limb 

 spreading, about i in. in diani. ; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded, entire 

 or subrepand, about yV in. lon^r ; throat glabrous ; stamens included ; 

 style glabrous, filiform, slightly club-shaped above; stigma .small, 

 subcapitate, bidentate ; capsule ovoid, minutely glandular-papillose, 

 "iV m. long, bivalved ; valves bifid. 



Kalahahi REGroN : Orange River Colony; near Cave, at foot of Mont aux 

 Sources, 6800 ft., Flanagan, 2085 I 



80 S. concinna (Hiern) ; a delicate herb, apparently procumbent, 

 apparently perennial ; stems slender, rather firm, leafy below, clothed 

 with short gland-tipped hairs, a few in. long; glands minute ; upper 

 internodes rather short ; middle internodes longer ; leaves opposite 

 or the upper alternate, pinnatisect, sometimes quasi -fasciculate, ovate 

 or oblong in general outline, obtuse, pinnatifid, dentate or entire, 

 grey-green, minutely puberulous-glandular, including the petiole 

 about i-1 in. long, |-| in. broad ; petioles mostly shorter than the 

 leaves, somewhat°dilated at the base ; flowers solitary in the upper 

 axils, about i-i in. long; peduncles slender, ^-.V in. long, ebracteate, 

 finely glandular-pilose ; calyx about y^-i i^^- 1°""' 5-partite, minutely 

 glandular ; segments narrowly oblong, obtuse or subobtuse ; corolla- 

 tube cylindrical, -^'^ in. broad, twice as long as the calyx, somewhat 



