﻿302 scEOPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). [8utera. 



leaves ; calyx viscid-glandular, deeply 5-lobed, xV~8 ^^- }^^o > 

 segments sublinear, obtuse; corolla -tube subcylindrical, slightly 

 dilated and somewhat curved above, sparingly glandular-puberulous 

 outside, about | in. long; limb more or less spreading, about i-i in. 

 in diam. ; lobes obovate-oval, rounded, entire, lavender with purple 

 streaks, about xV-i ^"- ^^^S > throat yellow ; stamens included ; 

 capsules oval-obiong, sparingly glandular, i-^ in. long. Ilanulea 

 argentea, Linn. f. Suppl. 286 ; Thunb. Prodr. 102 and Fl. Cap^ 

 ed. Scludt. 472. Lyperia argentea^ Benth. in Hook. Camp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 379, exd. var. /S and y ; Benth. in DC Prodr. x. 359, 

 partly. 



Coast Region: Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Berg, Drege, Ecklon! Witte 

 Klip, Bolvs, 9142! Albany Div.; hills near Grahainstown, Bolus, 7898! 

 Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, Drege, 2Z2M ! King Williamstown Div. ; 

 Keiskamma, Cnoper, 441 ! Eastern Districts, MacOwan, 201 partly ! British 

 Katfraria, Cooper, 2875 ! 



Centbal Region : Graaff Reinet Div. ; stony hills near the Sunday River, 

 2000-3000 ft., Brege. Albert Div. ; near the Orange River, Surke ! Albert 

 Div. ; Conper, 775 ! 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West ; near Griquatown, Mrs. Orpen in 

 Herb. Bolus, 6i83 I 



Eastekn Region: Tembuland ; hills near the IT mtata River, 1000-2000 ft., 

 Drege, 2324c! 



In Thnnberg's herbarium several species of Lyperia are included under 

 Manulea argentea. 



94. S. altoplana (Hiern) ; an undershrub, 3-4 in. high ; rootstock 

 woody, rather thick, much branched ; branches short, decumbent, 

 woody ; branchlets erect or ascending, rather slender, closely- 

 puberulous, somewhat wiry, rather leafy, terete ; leaves opposite 

 or the upper altercate or in many cases quasi-fasciculate, obovate or 

 oblanceolate, rounded or very obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 rather thick, glandular puberulous, strongly or incisely dentate, 

 shortly petiolate, |-i in. long, yV^tV ^^- broad ; flowers racemose, 

 rather numerous, i-f in. long ; racemes erect, rather lax, 1-3 in. 

 long ; pedicels alternate, closely glandular-puberulous, divaricate or 

 suberect, rather slender, firm, \-^ in. long; bracts basal, smaller 

 than the leaves, entire or dentate ; calyx densely gland ular-puberu- 

 lou.=, deeply 5.1obed, -^\-^ in. long; segments sublinear, obtuse; 

 corolla-tube subcylindrical, somewhat funnel-shaped and curved 

 towards the apex, i-| in. long, glandular-puberulous outside ; limb 

 more or less spreading, about ^-^ in. in diam. ; lobes obovate or 

 oval, j\-^ in. long, rounded or broad, scarcely retuse. 



Central Region : Fraserburg Div. : elevated plains near Fraserburg, 

 4200 ft., Bolus, 9181 ! 



95. S. virgulosa (Hiern) ; an erect undershrub, somewhat hoary- 

 greenish, more than 1 ft. high; stems pallid, branched; branches 

 or branchlets erect or suberect, straight, subvirgate or sometimes 

 branched, viscid-pubescent with small glands and short soft spreading 



