﻿304 scROPHULAEiACEiE (Hiern). \_8utera. 



lower branclies divaricate, rigid, ashy, short, rather thick ; branchlets 

 rather slender, leafy, erect or ascending ; leaves opposite, occasionally 

 quasi-fasciculate, obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, incise- 

 dentate or crenate, tomentose or shortly pubescent on both faces, 

 i-| in. long, ^V-i i^- hroad ; petioles yVH in- lo^o» tomentose- 

 pubescent ; flowers racemose and axillary from the axila of the 

 branchlets and the upper small leaves, about 1 in. long ; racemes 

 few-flowered, rather lax, l|-2 in. long ; pedicels erect-patent, 

 tomentose-pubescent, -|-f in. long, not slender; calyx glandular- 

 pubescent, deeply 5-lobed, i— i in. long ; segments linear, obtuse ; 

 corolla-tube subcylindrical, nearly straight, slender, somewhat 

 ventricose near the apex, glandular-puberulous outside, about 6 times 

 as long as the calyx or about f- f in. long ; limb spreading, small ; 

 lobes oval, entire, x2~iV i°' ^^^§ j stamens included ; capsule ovate- 

 oblong, ~ in. long, minutely or obsoletely glandular ; style very 

 slender, about ^ in. long. Erinus incisus, Thunb. Prodr. 103, and 

 Fl. Cap. ed. Scliult. 476. Lyperia incisa^ Benth. in Hook. Comp. 

 Bot. Mag. i. 379, and in DC. Prodr. x. 359. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunherg .' 

 Centkal Region : Calvinia Div. ; Haatam, Masson ! 



98. S. grandiflora (Hiern) ; an undershrub, viscid-pubescent, 

 erect, 1-2—4 ft. high; branches alternate or opposite, ascending, leafy, 

 rigid, rather robust, the lower elongated ; leaves mostly alternate, 

 subfasciculate, oval-oblong, obtuse or subacute, more or less wedge- 

 shaped at the base, creuate-serrate, hispid, scabrid, shortly petiolate, 

 l-l\ in. long, |-| in. broad ; lateral veins alternate, narrowly 

 impressed on the upper face, hispid and raised on the lower ; flowers 

 racemose, numerous, f-li in. long; racemes terminal, simple, sub- 

 corymbose and rather dense at first, afterwards elongating and rather 

 lax, deep purple, 1|-12 in. long ; pedicels divaricate or ascending, 

 glandular-pilose, moderately rigid, 1 -flowered, alternate, i-i in. long: 

 the upper crowded ; bracts basal, sublinear, solitary or subfasciculate ; 

 calyx glandular-hispid, deeply 5-lobed, |-| in. long; segments 

 linear-oblong or spathulate or eublinear, obtuse ; corolla-tube shortly 

 glandular-pubescent, f-li in. long, subcylindrical, rather slender, 

 slightly dilated and curved near the top ; limb spreading, f-li io- 

 in diam. ; lobes obovate-rotund, entire or retuse, ^-^ in. ^^^S ! 

 stamens included ; style filiform, glabrous, about | in. long ; ovary 

 sprinkled especially near the apex with small glands, otherwise 

 glabrous; capsules ovoid-oblong, minutely glandular, i in. long; 

 seeds very numerous, irregularly oblong, ^ in. long. Zyperia 

 grandiflora, Galpin in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 151. 



Kalahaei Eegsion, between 2000 and 5000 ft. : Transvaal ; at the skirts oi 

 forests near the Macmac Goldfields, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3024! Goldie i» 

 MacOivan Herh. Aust. 4/r., 1639 ! near Spitzkop, Wilms, lOiSl near Lyden- 

 burg, Atherstone ! near Barberton, Bolus in Herh. Norm., 132» ! hillsides near 



