﻿308 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [Sutera- 



anthers orange-colouied ; capsule oblong or ovoid-ellipsoidal, \ in. 

 long, BucJinem pedunculata, Andr. Bof. Rep. t. 84. Mannlea 

 pedunculaia, Fers. Syn. ii. 148. Lyperia pedunculata, Benth. m 

 Hooli. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 379, aJid in DC. Prodr. x. 360. L. 

 cuneata, Benth. II. cc, 380, 361 ; Drhje, Zwei Pflauzengeof/r. Docu- 

 mente, 121, 123, 200 partly, not 141. Ghienostoma cuneatum, 

 Wettst. ex Bielsin Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 491. 



South Africa : cultivated^ specimens ' 



Coast Region, below 500 ft. : Bredasdorp Div. ; near the mouth of R:itpl 

 River, SchlecMer, 9724! Bolus, 8581! Mier Krual, Schlechter, 10509! Swe - 

 lendam Div. ; Breede River, Rogers .' Riversdale Div. ; between Kafferkmls 

 River and Zoetmelks River, Drege, 7926a! near the Gauritz River, Drege, 

 79266! Mossel Bay Div.; by the Little Brak River, Burcliell, 6175 ! near 

 the sea-shore, Bohts, 8686! George Div. ; Zwart Valley, Fappe ! Knysna Div.; 

 Vhigt Valley, Bolus, 2417 ! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadensberg, Ecklon if 

 Zeyher I Alexandria Div. ; Olifants Hoek, Fappe ! 



The original Buchnera pedunculata was founded on cultivated specimens or 

 what appears to have been afterwards called Lyperia cuneata from wn<i 

 specimens. 



Under cultivation this plant attains much greater dimensions, 



•y 104. S. aspalathoides (Hiern) ; an undershrub, 1-2 ft. high, 

 much, branched, erect; branches alternate, opposite or fasciculate, 

 divaricate, slender, woody and nearly glabrous below, leafy, souie- 

 what glandular-puberulous and very slender towards the apex ; 

 leaves fasciculate, sublinear, obtuse, slightly or scarcely narrowed 

 towards the sessile base, glabrous or nearly so, entire, rather thick, 

 lr~l- in. long ; flowers racemose and axillarj^, i-} in. long, lilac ov 

 deep purple ; racemes lax, several -flowered ; pedicels rather slender, 

 somewhat glandular, /g-l in, long ; bracts like the leaves but rather 

 smaller ; calyx glandular, -jL-i in. long in flower or rather longer in 

 fruit, deeply 5-lobed ; segments lanceolate -linear, obtuse ; corolla- 

 tube subcylindrical, rather slender, somewhat dilated and curved 

 above, sprinkled with small stalked glands, | in. long; hoih 

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

 i-'^l: in. long, rounded, entire or subretuse ; stamens included, 

 style glabrous, about ^\ in. long ; capsule ovoid or oblong, obsoletely 

 glandular, J-,^ in. long. Manuha microphylla, Thunh. Prodr. IW, 

 and Fl. Cap. ed. Schidt. 466, partly. Lyperia aspalathoides, 

 Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 381, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 362. L, atropurpurea, Drege, Zivei Pflanzengeogr. Bocumente,\i-'i 

 200, d, not a, h, c. Chxnostoma aspalathoides, Wettst. ex Diels »» 

 Fngl. Jalirh. xxiii. 491. 



SoDTH Africa: without locality, Zeiy/ier, 1301! 1305! Masson! Thunlerg ■' 

 Sparrvian ! 



Coast Region, below 1000 ft. : Bredasdorp Div. ; near Koude Ri^''' 

 ScUecMer,*jmy\ Riversdale Div. ; between the Gauritz River and Great yi's 

 River, Burcliell, 6520 ! near Gauritz River Bridge, Galpin, 4384 ! Uniondaie 

 Div. ; near the Groot River in Lange Kloof, Burcliell, 5011 ! hills near Avontuur, 

 Bolus, 2418 ! Knysna Div. ; between Goukamma River and the western end oi 



