﻿Sutera.] scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 307 



Coast Region, ascending from 400 to 4000 ft. : EiversdaJe Div. ; neiifKivers- 

 dale, ScMechter, 1737! Mossel Bay Div. ; near the Gauritz Kiver, Ecklon d: 

 Zeyher! Goud (Ganritz) Eiver, Jlfassow/ Albany Div. ; near Buslimans River, 

 Zeyhcr, 850! 2515! and without precise locality, Miss Bowlcer, 380! Fort 

 Beaufort Div.; near Fort Beaufort, EciZon, 850 ! Zeyher, 3bl6\ Queenstown 

 Div.; Engotina near Shiloh, Baur, 968! near Queenstown, Galpin, 1813! 

 Cathcart Div. ; near Klipplaats River, DreffO, 827a ! 



Central Region, ascending to 4000 ft. : Prince Albert Dir. ; Zwart Bergen, 

 near Vrolyk, Drege ! Cradock Div.; near the Great Brak River, Burke! 

 Burghersdorp, Guthrie, 4565 ! Cradock, Kunize. Beaufort West Div, ; Karoo, 

 Henderson.' Richmond Div. ; Wintervcld, Drccre, 8276! Albert Div.; Cooper, 

 585 ! . y . 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand, without precise locality, Schinz, 1 ! 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West, Herbert Div. : near Belmont, Orpen, 

 117! Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Barchell, 1866! 2110! Kimberley Div.; near 

 Kimberley, Marloth, 864! Bechuanaland; banks of the River Moshowa 

 near Takun, Burchell, 2280 ! Orange River Colouy ; Mrs. Barber ! Burke, 

 394 1 Transvaal ; Sandloop, 4700 ft., Schlechter, 4377 ! Klippan, Rehmann, 

 5287 ! plains near the Bechuanaland border, Bolus, 6438! 



Eastern Region : Transkei; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 380 ! Natal; edge of a 

 donga near Weenen, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 4434 ! 



This bush deserves notice as a drug, and in all probability will, ere long, 

 become an article of colonial export. It grows abundantly in some parts of the 

 Eastern districts of Cape Colony, whence it has found its way into the dispensary. 

 The flowers, which are called Geele Bloemetjes, closely resemble Saffron in smell 

 and taste, and they possess similar medical properties, and, as an anti-spasmodic, 

 iinodyneand stimulant, ought to rank with Crocus sativus. In Cape Town they 

 have as yet been used with success only in the convulsions of children, but they 

 ueservo a more general trial. On account of the fine orange colour which they 

 impart, they are in daily request among the Mahomedans, who use them for the 

 purpose of dyeing their handkerchiefs. This drug has been observed sometimes 

 to be adulterated by the admixture of other plants of the same genus, which are 

 less efficacious.— (Pappe, List of S. Afr. Indig. PI. used as remedies, 10.) 



In Zinneea xx. 199, Drege distinguished between Lyperia crocea, Eckl., and 

 i- atropurpurea, Benth. ; he referred Drege, 827a to L. crocea, and Zeuher, 

 3515 (a specimen from Boschmans river in Albany, below 500 ft. alt.) to L. 

 crocea, p. microphylla glalra, Zeyher ; and for L. atropurpurea he quoted as a 

 i'viionym L. crocea, /3. microphylla puhescens, Zeyher; but no characteristics 

 were given for either the species or the varieties. 



103. S. pedunculata (Hiera) ; a shrub about 2 ft. high, much 

 l^ranched, pereunial or biennial ; stems woody ; branches divaricate 

 or ascending, slender; branchlets alternate, sometimes crowded, 

 leafy, very slender, glandular-papillose, scarcely subscabrid ; leaves 

 subfasciculate, obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, obtuse, wedge-?haped 

 Jt the base, shortly petiolate, excise-dentate at the apex or upper 

 half or rarely subentire, minutely glandular-squamulose, xV-i in- 

 long by J^_J^ in. broad ; flowers axillary or racemose, tolerably 

 numerous, white, not spotted, i-f in. long; pedicels divaricate, 

 rather slender, minutely glandular, 1-flowered, i-| m. long; calyx 

 Riandular, deeply 5-lobed, about i in. long ; segments sublmear 

 subobtuse ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, a little gibbous-dilated and 

 curved near the apex, rather slender, somewhat glandular-puberulous 

 •^^tside, pale greenish-yellow ; limb spreading ; lobes oblong or 

 obovate, emarginate or retuse, -} in. long ; stamens just included ; 



