﻿312 scKOPHULAEiACEiE (Hiem). [Phyllopodiun- 



Flowers purplisli: 

 Flowers 



about i in. 



long ... (9) heterophyllum. 

 Flowers 



_i_ 



1 -J lo 



long ... (10) pamilum. 

 Flowers pallid, 



I iu. long ... (11) mpestre. 

 Plant ^-| iu. high ; flowers 



about i in. long (12) minimum. 



** Suffruticose or perennial : 



Flowers -J-f in. long or smaller ; bract xn-i ^^• 

 long : 



Viscid-pubesceut ; leaves strongly toothed : 



Flowers VI in- long (13) glutinosum. 



Flowers about Jg in. long ... ... (14) Schlechten. 



Pubcrulous or pilose ; leaves nearly entire or 

 few-tootbed : 



Calyx finely pilose, about f in. long ... (15) alpimim. 

 Calyx glabrous or ciliolate, -iV"tV i"* 

 lon^ : 



Leaves mostly opposite or ternate ; 



decumbent (16) Badolphi. 



Loaves quasi-fasciculatp, fascicules 

 raoslly alternate ; erect or ascend- 

 ing (17) Baurii. 



Flowers f-i in. long ; bract i-J in. long ... (18) krebsianum. 



2/ 1. P. cuneifolium (Benlh. iu Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373) ; 



an annual herb, erect or ascending, branched or nearly simp e, 



0-12 in. high, rigid and sometimes almost shrubby below, clothed 



above with short thick dense whitish hairs, with the habit ot a 



Selago ; stem llexuous-erect or more or less procumbent ; branches 



opposite, patent or erect-patent, leafy ; leaves opposite, ovate, ova 



or elliptical, obtuse or shortly pointed, subtntncate or more or Jess 



wedge-shaped at the base sometimes abruptly so, firmly herbaceous, 



grey-green especially beneath, glabrescent or sparingly hispidulous 



beneath, dentate, -^,-li in. long, i-1 in. broad; petioles up to -^^ ^"• 



long, hispidulous; flowers subspicate, pale purple, i m- ^^^^' 



spikes dense above, laxer below, short or oblong, in fruit elongate , 



2-4- in. long or even more, about -^ in. broad in flower, narrower m 



fruit ; bract about } in. long, oblong, entire, obtuse, straight, otten 



ciliolate below, minutely glandular-papillose on the back, adna e 



below to the calyx ; calyx oblong, 5-cleft about half-way down, 



tV in, long •, lobes lanceolate-linear, obtuse, equal, sparingly ciliolate^ 



corolla glabrous; tube ^^ in. long ; limb somewhat spreading; low 



••VtV i"- long, rounded at the apex, entire ; stamens exserted ; sty e 



longer than the filaments; capsule oval-oblong, yV in. long ; ^eea 



several. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 352. Manulea cuneifoUa, Ltn^^J- 



Suppl. 285; Thnnh. Prodr. 101, and Fl. Gap. ed. SchuU. 4b». 



P. diffumm, Brege in Linnaa, xx. 198, not of Benih. 



South Africa : without locality, Tlamhera ! u,e 



Coast Kegion, ascending from 20 to 1000 ft. : Uiteniiaee Div. ; "ear 



