﻿Sutera,] scrophulariace^. (Hiern). 309 



Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5608 ! Uitenliage Dlv. ; Grassrug, EcHon .' Vanstadons 

 Kivor, Drege. Port Elizabeth Div. ; Krakakamma, EcUon ! 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony ; Nieuwiyaars Spruit, between the 

 Orange and Cdledon Rivers, 4000-5000 ft., 'Zet/her .' 



105. S. tortuosa (Hiern) ; an undershrub, low, intricately 

 branched ; stems whitish or ashy, nearly glabrous ; branches woody 

 or rigid, tortuous ; branchlets opposite, alternate or subfasciculate, 

 rigid, slender, short, leafy and glandular-puberulous towards the 

 apex, older ones subspinescent ; leaves fasciculate, cuneate-oblong or 

 linear-spathulate, obtuse, wedge-shaped to the sessile or subsessile 

 base, thick, rigid, minutely glandular-papillose, entire, crowded, 

 tVH in. long ; flowers racemose, about ^-| in. long ; racemes lax, 

 few- or several-flowered, rather short ; pedicels rather slender and 

 rigid, minutely or obsoletely glandular, -]-J in. long; calyx 

 glandular, deeply 5-lobed, -iV-tV in. long; corolla-tube subcylin- 

 drical, narrowly funnel-shaped above, nearly straight, somewhat 

 glandular outside, about i-i in. long; limb spreading; lobes 

 obovate-rotund, entire, about as long as the calyx ; siamens iucluded. 

 Lyperia tortuosa, Benth. in DG. Prodr. x. 362. 



CENTRAt, Region : Prince Albert Div. ; by the Gamka River, Burl<e, 144 ! 

 Zeyher, 1307 ! 



106. S. densifolia (Hiern); shrubby, low, branched; stems or 

 branches decumbent, rigid, pallid, glabrous; branchlets alternate, 

 opposite or crowded, patent, erect or ascending, glandular-papillose, 

 densely leafy, slender, somewhat rigid, 1-2 in. long; leaves fascicu- 

 late, oval-oblong, rounded, scarcely or but little narrowed at the 

 tase, entire, revolute at the margin, rather thick or fleshy, minutely 

 sessile-glandular, sessile, ^VtV i"- long, 5V-X0 in- broad; flowers 

 axillary and subterminal, about \ in. long, several; peduncles 

 glandular-puberulous, \-\ in. long ; calyx \ in. long in flower, 

 i-i in. long in fruit, "glandular-viscid, deeply 5-lobed ; segments 

 oblong or sublicear, obtuse ; corolla-tube somewhat glandular outside, 

 subcyiindrical, rather slender, gradually and slightly dilated upward, 

 •'^ little curved above; lobes oval-oblong, l-} in- long, broadly 

 eniarginate; stamens included; style slender, minutely papillose, 

 about i in. long ; capsule ovoid-conical, glistening with small sessile 

 glands, i in. long. 



Coast Region : Bathurst Dlv. j on a dry hill-side above River Bank, near 

 lort Alfred, 100 ft., Galpin, 2032 ! 



107. S. microphylla (Hiern) ; an undershrub, perennial or some- 

 times annual, 4-1 ft. high or more ; stem decumbent or suberect, 

 closely and intricately branched, ashy, glabrous below ; branches 

 alternate, crowded, quadrifarious or subfasciculate ; branchlets 

 slender, wiry, glandular-puberulous, leafy, quadrangular; leaves 

 fasciculate with abbreviated axillary leafy shoots, ovate-oblong, 



