﻿300 SCROPHULAPJACE.E (Hiem). [Sutera. 



used by the Boers for dyeing linen yellow and staining wood or put into oil for 

 rubbing-up furuitare. 



90. S. Henrici (Hiem) ; an undershrub, woody at the base, much 

 branched and procumbent below, about 1 ft. high ; branches ascend- 

 ing or divaricate, rather slender and wiry, densely glandular-puberu- 

 lous above, terete, leafy ; internodes usually about equalling or 

 shorter or in some forms longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite or 

 the upper alternate, mostly quasi-fasciculate with abbreviated leafy 

 axillary shoots, ovate-oval, obtuse, subtruncate or somewhat Avedge- 

 shape dat the base, incise -pinnatifid, firmly membranous, glandular- 

 papillose, i-| in. long, i-i in. broad ; teeth or lobes entire or 

 sparingly toothed ; petioles -^-^-^ ^^- long, densely glandular-puberu- 

 lous ; flowers axillary, rather numerous, ^ in. long ; peduncles 

 i-|-in. long, densely glandular-puberulous, rather slender, divaricate j 

 calyx deeply 5-lobed, densely glandular-puberulous, ^ in. long; 

 segments broadly linear, obtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, slightly 

 dilated and more or less curved above, sprinkled with short gland- 

 tipped hairs outside, about y% in. long ; limb somewhat spreading ; 

 lobes oval or oblong, rounded or subtruncate, entire, xV~s' ^^- ^'^^S > 

 anthers not exserted ; style slender, ^ in. long } capsule oval, obtuse, 

 minutely glandular, i in. long, -^-^ in. broad. 



KALAH4RI Begion : Orange River Colony; in open places at Besters Vlei 

 near Witzies Hoek, 54,00 ft., Bolus, 8228 ! 



Eastern Region : Tembuland ; near the Emgwali River, 2900 ft., Bolus, 

 8758 ! near Engcobo, Bolus .' 



91. S. Bolusii (Hiern) ; an erect, annual, somewhat wiry herb, 

 branched at the base, about 1^ ft. high; stems erect or ascending, 

 several, rather slender, firm, purplish below, pale green above, simple 

 or nearly so, viseid-puberulous with short rather thick whitish hairs ; 

 internodes mostly 1-2 in. long ; leaves opposite or subopposite or the 

 uppermost alternate, usually quasi-fasciculate, ovate or narrowly 

 elliptical, obtuse or subobtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, mem- 

 branous, minutely glandular, somewhat finely pilose, irregularly 

 pinnatilobed, |-1 in. long, -i-f in. broad ; lobes dentate or subeutire ; 

 petioles iL-i in. long, glandular-pubescent ; flowers racemose and 

 the lower axillary, numerous, i-i in. long, yellow ; racemes simple, 

 rather lax, 6-9 in. long or in flower shorter; pedicels i-| in- lonft 

 slender, firm, divaricate, bracteate or axillary to the upper leaves, 

 glandular-pilose ; bracts narrow, smaller than the leaves, entire or 

 dentate, glandular-puberulous ; calyx glandular-puberulous, -jV~to ^°' 

 long, in fruit about J^ in. long, deeply "5-lobed ; segments oval-oblong 

 or linear-oblong, obtuse; corolla-tube i-J in. long, subcylindrical, 

 nearly straight or a little curved above, about -^V in. in diam, at the 

 middle, dilated near the limb, sprinkled with small glands ; hmb 

 spreading, i-| in. in diam. ; lobes oval or subrotund, rounded, 

 entire, -iV-tV in. long ; stamens included ; capsule oval, pallid, 

 minutely or obsoletely glandular, l~} in. long. 



