﻿306 scrophulabiacea; (Hiern). [Satera. 



axillary leafy shoots^ i-i in. long ; flowers axillary and racemose, 

 rather numerous, chocolate-brown, |-1 in. long ; pedicels rather 

 slender,^! in. long; calyx papillose, deeply 5-lobed, |-| in. long; 

 segments broadly linear, obtuse ; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, 

 curved and somewhat dilated near the apex, sparingly glandular- 

 papillose outside, |— I in. long; limb spreading, about ^ in. in diam. ; 

 lobes oval-oblong, about J-i in. long, entire or nearly so ; stamens 

 included ; capsules ovoid-oval, pallid, glabrous, ^-\ in. long. 



Vab. /3: macrophylla (Hiern) ; stems rather viscid ; leaves up to 1-1| in. long 

 by A-i in. broad, sparingly denticulate towards the apex or dentate. 



Coast Region : Komgha Div. ; roadsides near Kei bridge, Flanagan, 436 ! 



Centbal Region : Graaff Reinet Div. ; hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft.. 

 Bolus, 3, partly ! Vab. ;S : Calvinia Div. ; Karoo below the Bokkeveld Moun- 

 tains, doubtfully referred to this variety or species, Masson ! 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; near Barberton, 2400 ft., Galpin, 645! 

 Vak. iS: Transvaal ; Houtbosch (Woodbush), Rehmann, 6008 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei Div. ; Kreilis country, Bowker ! Natal ; near the 

 Mooi River, Gerrard, 1243 ! Vab. /3 : Delagoa Bay ; between the Lebombo 

 Mountains and the Komati River, 500 ft., Bolus, 7609 ! 



This is one of the species called by the colonists " Geele Bloemetjes." 



102. S. atropurpurea (Hiern) ; a heath-like shrub, 1-3 ft. high, 

 much branched; branches terete, pale brown, glaudular-puberulous 

 or nearly glabrous ; branchlets wiry, rather elongated, numerous, 

 glaudular-puberulous, leafy, grey-green ; leaves opposite and usually 

 fasciculate, cuneate-linear or narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, gradually 

 narrowed to the sessile base, firmly fleshy, glaudular-puberulous or 

 glabrous, deep- or grey-green, entire, J^-i in. long ; internodes 

 between the fascicles {—^ in. long ; flowers axillary to the upper 

 fascicles, -»-l in. long, forming terminal leafy racemes; peduncles 

 spreading or ascending, 1 -flowered, -|-1 in. long, firm, minutely 

 glandular-puberulous, ebracteate ; calyx-segments lanceolate -linear, 

 obtuse, glandular-puberulous, y^-i "i- lo»g in flower, scarcely 

 longer and little widened in fruit; corolla saffron, chocolate or 

 reddish-brown ; tube |~|- in. long, rather slender, cylindrical, some- 

 what curved and slightly widened near the apex, somewhat glandular 

 outside, glabrous within ; lobes oval or oblong, obtuse, entire, |-i in- 

 long; stamens glabrous ; anthers subreniform, about ^ in. broad, all 

 fertile ; upper pair inserted about the top and the lower pair near 

 the top of the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; style filiform, glabrous, 

 included or nearly so ; stigma ovate, rather narrower than the 

 anthers and reaching the upper pair, glabrous ; capsule ovoid- 

 conical or oblong, somewhat compressed, }-^ in. long, ^ in. broad, 

 glabrous. Manulea atropurpurea, Herb. Banks, ex Benth. in Hook- 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 380 ; 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL in. ii- 235. 

 Lyperia atropurpurea, Benth., I.e. L. crocea, Ecldon ex Benth- 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 361. M.foUolosa, O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL iii- »• 

 235 (^not L. foliolosa, Benth.). Ghsenostoma croceum, WettsL ex 

 Diets in Engl. Jahrl. xxiii. 491. 



