﻿310 scROPHULARiACEiG (Hiem). [Sutera. 



obtuse, sessile or subsessile, entire, thick, glabrous, shining, 

 -2V in. long, those on the younger branchlets quadrifariously im- 

 bricate ; flowers axillary, few or several, ^-^ in. long ; peduncles 

 near the top of the branchlets, scarcely or rather slender, -}-{r 

 in. long, glandular, l-flowered ; calyx glandular, deeply 5-lobed, 

 y\f-y in. long ; segments sublinear, rather thick, obtusely pointed ; 

 corolla-tube subcylindrical, somewhat ventricose near the top, nearly 

 straight, glandular-puberulous outside, f in. long ; limb spreading, 

 -i-f in. in diam. ; lobes broadly obovate, J— ^ in. long, entire ; stamens 

 included ; capsules ovoid, somewhat glandular-squamulose, -J— ^ in. 

 long. Manulea microphylla, Linn. f. Suppl. 285; Linn, herb.; 

 TJiunh. Prodr. 100, and FL Cap. ed. Sclmlt. 466, and herb., partly. 

 Lyperia microphylla, Benth, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Marj. i. 381, and 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 362; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835. " Cheenostoma 

 microphyllum, JVettst. ex Diets in Engl. JaJirb. xxiii. 489, and in 

 Engl, and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3b, 68, Jig. 31g. 



South Africa: without locality; Tlmnhera .' Oldenburg, 809! Patenon, 

 2147 ! 



Coast Eegion, below lOOO ft. : Riversdale Div. ; near Milkwood Fontein, 

 Oalpin, 4385! Uitenhage Div. ; hills near the Sunday River, Drege, 31160 ! 

 Grassriig, neiir Uitenhage, MacOwan. 2050! Baur, 10151 near the Zwartkops 

 and Koega River.^, Zeyher, 89 ! 3514 I Krauss,2Q08. Port Elizabeth Div. ; hills 

 near Port Elizabeth, Bolus, 1891! 9182"! and in Herb. iV^orm., 1331 ! Albany 

 Div. ; near Grnhamstown, Burlce ! 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; near the mouth of the Orange 

 River, below 600 ft., Brige, 3116b ! 



Imperfectly known Species. 



108. S. natalensis (O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. ii. 467) ; annual; 

 stem branched at the base, hispidulous ; leaves opposite, ovate, 

 shortly petiolate, unequally incise-dentate, nearly glabrous above, 

 somewhat pilose beneath and on the margin ; the lower approximate, 

 the upper distant ; flowers arranged in compound racemes ; pedicels 

 solitary, about as long as the calyx ; lower bracts lanceolate, incise- 

 dentate, rather distant, upper linear, quite entire, approximate. 

 Chisnostoma natalmse, BernJiardi ex Krauss in Flora, 1844,835; 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 357. 



Eastern Regiok : Natal ; in woods around Durban Bay, Krauss. 



T,^^? lyperia tenuifolia (Bemh. ex Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835) ; 

 shrubby, glabrous; leaves crowded, linear, short, tender, trifid at the 

 apex, otherwise quite entire, quasi-fasciculate with abbreviated 

 axillary leafy shoots; peduncles elongated. Benth. in PC. Prodr. 



^^CoAST Rkgion: George Div.; in sandy places near Zwart Valley, iTraw^-'. 

 I have not seen the type specimen ; it perhaps belongs to S. peduncidata. 



