﻿Sutera.] sceophulariace/E (Hiern). 301 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal j near the Crocodile River, about 750 ft.. 

 Bolus, 7670 ! 



92. S, kraussiana (Hiern) ; shrubby ; branches hispidulous or 

 minutely glandular-puberulous, subterete, rigid, slender, mostly 

 alternate, subvirgate ; branchlets divaricate or ascending, very 

 slender, leafy ; leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, rather thickly membranous, minutely glandular, green at least 

 above, unequally incise-dentate, mostly alternate, often quasi-fascicu- 

 late, |-l:i in. long, l—l- in. broad ; lower petioles yV~6 ^^- ^0"R 5 

 flowers axillary and sometimes in terminal lax leafy racemes, rather 

 numerous, white or pale lilac, about ^ in. long, sometimes | in. long ; 

 pedicels slender, more or less glandular-pilose, spreading, f-J in. 

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

 segments lanceolate-oblong, obtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrieai, 

 slightly dilated and gibbous upwards, minutely glandular-pilose ; 

 limb spreading, about l in. in diam.; lobes oblong, rounded, entire, 

 about i in. long ; stamens included ; capsules ovoid-oblong, 

 glandular-pulverulent, J- in. long. Lyperia argentea, Benth. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. i, 379, var. /3. Choenostoma kraussianum, Bern- 

 hardi ex Krauss in Mora, 1844, 835. Lyperia kraussiana, Benth. in 

 I>C. Prodi: X. 360. L. argentea, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. ,359, 

 partly. Manulea kraussiana, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 

 235. Manulea pinnatifida, Linn. f. Suppl. 286; Thunh. Prodr. 

 102, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 473; not of 0. Kuntze. 



Var. /3 : latifolia (Hiern); rather scabrid; leaves oval or subovate, not 

 exceeding J in. long. Lyperia Tcraussiana, var. latifolia, Benth. in DC, I.e. 

 L. argentea, var. y, Benth. in Hooh., I.e. 



Coast Re&ion, from 100 to 6000 ft.: Komgha Div. ; Prospect Farm, near 

 Konighii, 2100 ft.. Bolus! Kei River hills, Bolus.' near the month of the Kei 

 River, Flanagan, 1346 ! Var. $ : Alexandria Div. ; Addo and near the Bosch- 

 mans River, EcMon ! between the Sunday and Fish Rivers, Thunberg ! Queens- 

 town Div.; Hangklip iMountain, Qalpin, 1519 ! 



Central Region : Aliwal North Div.; Aliwal North, Kuntze. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; near Durban, Krauss, 119 1 Sanderson, .543 1 

 Inanda, Wood, 167 I Camperdown, Wood, 27 ! Maritzbnrg, Rehmann, 7572 ! 



Var. fi : Natal ; without precise locality, Gerrard, 582 ! hill near Avoca, 

 250 ft., Schlechttr, 3010 ! 



y 93. S. argentea (Hiern) ; a shrub, perennial, l|-4 ft. high and 

 more, woody below, subherbaceous and viscid-puberulous above ; 

 stem erect, much branched ; branches opposite or alternate, rather 

 felender, wiry, rigid, sometimes virgate ; branchlets moderately 

 leafy; leaves opposite or alternate, often quasi-fasciculate, ovate, 

 obovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or pointed, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, incise-dentate, closely sprinkled beneath with minute silvery- 

 shining sessile papilliform glands, i-i in. long, -^-^ in. broad ; 

 petioles up to yV in. long ; flowers rather numerous, axillary and 

 racemose, i-| In. long ; pedicels slender, viscid, spreading at least 

 in fruit, J-J in. long ; bracts dentate or subentirc, smaller than the 



