﻿Sutera.] sCROPHULARiACEiR (Hiern). ' 303 



hairs, 9-12 in. long, rather slender, rigid, somewhat flexuous, leafy ; 

 leaves elliptical, obtuse, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, grey- 

 green, glandular-puberulous, rather thickly herbaoeous, incise-dentato, 

 ■5-^ in. long, yV~5 ill- broad, opposite or alternate, quasi-fasciculate ; 

 petioles up to ^ in. long, glandular-puberulous ; flowers axillary and 

 subterminal, about i in. long, numerous; peduncles solitary, 

 l-flowered, densely glandular-puberulous, moderately firm, \-} in. 

 long ; calyx deeply 5-lobed, densely glandular-puberulous, yV-s in- 

 long; segments linear-oblong, obtuse, smooth and shining within, 

 erect ; corolla-tube about \ in. long, subcylindrical, nearly straight, 

 with a slight gibbosity towards the apex, yV i^- ^^ diam. at tlie 

 niiddle, finely glandular-pilose outside ; limb spreading, \~\ in. in 

 diam. ; lobes obovate-oval, rounded or subtruncate, entire, i-J- in. 

 long; stamens included; capsules ovoid-oblong, glandular-pilose, 

 i-| in. long. 



Eastern Region: Griqualand East; on mountain sides near Mataticle, 

 6300 ft., Tyson, 1634 ! 



96. S. canescens (Hiern) ; sufEruticose, erect, strong-scented, 

 i-2 ft. high, apparently annual, branched from the base; lower 

 branches somewhat woody at the base, subterete, wiry, hoary with 

 minute glandular puberulence above, erect or ascending; upp^r 

 branches ascending, subherbaceous above, moderately leafy, opposite 

 or alternate ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, sometimes quasi- 

 fasciculate, oval- or elliptic-oblong, obtu.se or subacute, more or less 

 wedge-shaped at the base, shortly petiolate, serrate or incise-dentate 

 or the uppermost subentire, somewhat hoary especially beneath, |-J in. 

 ^<^"g) i-i in. broad ; flowers axillary and racemose, rather numerous, 

 about I in. long ; racemes leafy below, braoteate above, lax, oblong ; 

 pedicels i-j- in. long in flower, i-| in. long in fruit, viscid-puberu- 

 lous ; bracts entire or sparingly toothed, smaller tlian the leaves ; 

 calyx glandular-puberulous, yV i'l- ^^^S ^^ flower, ^^l^J. in. long in 

 fruit, deeply 5-lobed ; segments lanceolate-linear, bluntly-pointed ; 

 corolla-tube about \ in. long, somewhat glandular- viscid outside, 

 subcylindrical, somewhat and gradually diluted and subgibbous 

 above ; lobes rounded, entire, about yV in. long ; stamens included ; 

 capsule ovoid-oval, minutely glandular, i in. long. Lyp^^ia 

 canescens, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 379, and m DC. 

 J'rodr. X. 359. Chieuostotna canescens, Wettst. ex Dieh w Ewjl. 

 Jahrb. xxiii. 490. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher, 1296 (in fruit, doubtful)! 

 ^ Western Kegion : Little Namaqualand ; inundated places hy the Omnfje 

 River near Veleptrara, l)elow 500 ft., Driige, 3102! Great Namaqualand ; only m 

 the bed of a river, Schinz, 31 ! 33 ! Bysondermaid (Karakboes), i>chinz, iC 

 (doubtful) ! 



Also in tropical Namaqualand. 



97. S. incisa (Hiern) ; an undershrub, 5-8 in. high, much 

 branched, woody and glabrescent below, toraentose-pubesccnt above ; 



