﻿Sutera.] scrophdlariacbj: (Hieru). 295 



stock usually thick ; branches opposite or subfasciculate or the upper 

 alternate, divaricate or ascending or straight, often virgate, rigid, 

 ■woody or wiry; branchlets rather leafy and slender; leaves sub- 

 fiisciculate, oval, oblong or ovate, obtuse, more or less narrowed at 

 the base, pinnatisect or pinnatifid, shortly petiolate, i-i in. long, 

 ■g— i in, broad, sprinkled with small white sessile shiuiug glands ; 

 segments linear or oblong-cuneate, entire or 2-3-fid ; flowers ?—} in, 

 long, racemose and axillary, numerous, usually bright yellow ; racemes 

 straight, narrow, interrupted, not dense except near the apex, rigid, 

 elongating; pedicels j^—i ii^- loiig> rigid, glandular; calyx y^r—^^y in. 

 long in flower, yV^i ^^- ^^^S i^ fruit, glandular, deeply 5-lobed ; 

 segments sublinear, subobtuse; corolla-tube subcylindrical, curved 

 and a little gibbous-dilated not far from the apex, somewhat 

 glandular-papillose outside, ^-f in. long; limb subpatent, i-i in. in 

 diam. ; lobes xV"T"V ^"' lo"&' obovate-rotund, retuse ; stamens 

 included ; style nearly glabrous, filiform, ^-i in. long ; capsule 

 oblong, i-i in, long, pallid, more or less sprinkled with white shining 

 sessile glands. Lyperia crasslcaulis, Bentli. in Hook. Camp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 379, and in DC. Prodr. x. 360. L. stricta, Benth. in 

 DC. I.e. 



Vab. P : purpurea (Hiern) ; flowers violet, lilac, or dark purple ; whole plant 

 strougly scented. 



Coast Region : Queenstown Div. ; summit of Andries Berg, near Biiilcv, 

 6600-6800 ft., Galpin, 2030! 



Ckntbal Kegion, between 4000 and 7000 ft.: Tarkastad Div.; Wiidschuts 

 Mountain, Dre^e, 3611a! Graalf Keir.et Div.; Compass Berg, Bolus, 1975! 

 Aberdeen Div. ; Camdeboo Mountains, Dreje. Murraysburg Div. ; near 

 Murraysburg, Tyson, 130 ! Aliwal North Div, : Witte Bergen, Brege, 7925 ! 

 Cooper 597 ! Albert Div.; Burghersdorp, Cooper, 775! Colesberg Div.; Coles- 

 lierg, Shaw ! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Sand River, Burke, 337 ! Zet/lier, 

 1297! rocky hills, Mrs, Barter! Transvaal; between Trigards Fontein and 

 StaudertoD, Belimann, 6763 ! 



Var. ^ : Basutoland ; near Matele, 6900-7000 ft., Thode, 42 ! Orange River 

 Colony ; top of Mont aux Source?, 11,000 ft., Evans, 760 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; Buffalo Valley, near Charlestown, TFoo(Z, 5740! 



83. S. mollis (Hiern) ; shrubby at least below, woody at the base, 

 appirently perennial, procumbent; stems J -2 ft. long, branched at 

 least below ; branches alternate or opposite, rigid or wiry, softly 

 pubescent, often elongated, leafy ; hairs often tipped with small 

 ^'lands ; leaves opposite or alternate, subfasciculate, ovate, obtuse, 

 sublruncate or shortly narrowed at the base, incise-dentate, pinnatiiid 

 or pinnatisect, membranous, softly puberulous or pubescent, glandular, 

 v-1 in. long, J^-| in. broad ; petioles up to | in, long, pubescent; 

 flowers axillary, numerous, |-1 in. long; peduncles spreading, 

 slender, pubescent, i-f in, long, 1 -flowered; calyx pubescent or 

 j>.ispid, glandular, deeply 5-lobed, xV^ i»- ^^"g ' segments oblong- 

 iinear or linear, obtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, somewhat funnel- 

 shaped above, nearly straight, glandular-puberulous outside, i-^ in, 

 l<^"g ; limb spreading, i-§- in, in diam, ; lobes obovate-oblong, 



