﻿Phyllopodkim.'] scrophulariacej!: (Hiern). 313 



Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 1284 ! Addo, EcUon ! Algoa Bay, Forhes, 11 ! Port 

 Elizabeth Biv.-, near Port Elizabeth, Bolus, 2235! Zeyher, 34971 Went in 

 MacOwan Herh. Aust.-Afr., 1931! Alexandria Div.; Quagga Flats, Ecklon! 

 Zeyher, 743 ! Buthurst Di\\ ; Eastern Frontier and Kowie sand hills, MacOwan, 

 425 ! 425* ! Albany Div. ; Howisons Poort, Hutton ! Round Hill, Bolus, 7900 ! 

 Konigha Div. ; near tlie mouth of the Kei River, Flanagan, 95 ! East London 

 Div.; on the sea-coast at East London, Gal-pin, 1842 ! 



2. P. Augei (Hiern) ; an erect herb, annual, dull, nearly glabx'ous, 

 sliglitly glandular-puberulous, 4 in. high ; branches subdivaricate, 

 erect-patent, moderately leafy ; leaves radical and cauline, opposite 

 or the uppermost alternate, spathulate or narrowly elliptical, obtusely 

 narrowed or the iippermost subacute, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 the uppermost subsessile, dentate, |— 1 in. long, J- J in. broad ; 

 petioles up to \ in. long or rather more ; flowers numerous, capitate- 

 racemose, about ^- in. long; pedicels yV i°- ^"^"g ^"^ less, attenuate, 

 bracteate at the base ; bracts dentate, J— | in. long, like the smaller 

 leaves, adhering near the base to the pedicels ; heads about } in. 

 long in flower, in fruit nearly 2 in. long ; calyx ^-i-in. long, deeply 

 5-lobed; segments linear, obtuse, glandular-puberulous, erect in 

 flower, rather longer and spreading towards the tips in fruit ; corolla- 

 tube rather slender, about -^V in. long, glandular-pulverulent outside ; 

 Hnib spreading, about f in. in diam. ; lobes broadly oval, about ;- in. 

 long, rounded at the apex, entire ; mouth glabrous ; one pair of 

 anthers appearing at the mouth, the other included ; style exserted ; 

 capsule ovoid, glabrous, i in. long, shorter than the calyx. 



South Afbica : without locality, Aitge {Nelson) ! 



3. P. bracteatum (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373) ; 

 an annual herb, erect or procumbent, diffusely branched, wiry, 

 puberulous ; stems 5-18 in. high or long; branches opposite or the 

 upper alternate, divaricate, leafy ; leaves opposite or the upper alter- 

 nate, oval or obovate, obtuse or nearly rounded, more or less wedge- 

 shaped at the base, dentate, glabrous or nearly so, minutely scaly- 

 papillose beneath, i-| in. long, J -| in. broad ; petioles up to about 

 \ in. long, glabrous" or ciliolate ; flowers subspicate, about ]r in. long, 

 ^^'hite, with an orange spot in the throat ; spikes many- or several- 

 flowered, subhemispherical or in fruit oblong, dense above, rather 

 lax below, interrupted in fruit, ^^-2 in. long, ^-J m. broad ; bract.s 

 obovate, leafy, denticulate, obtuse, i-| iu- long, the narrowed basal 

 part adnate to the calyx, ciliolate below; calyx deep y o-clett, 

 ^i in. long ; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliate ; corolla-tube in 

 flower scarcely equalling the calyx, about -f in. long, marcescent, 

 thrust a little upwards in young fruit; lobes obovate, rounded at the 

 ^P^^^ tV-tV in. long ; stamens didynaraous, shortly exserted ; style 

 shortly exserted; capsule ovoid-oblong, i-i m. long Ti'>ntli. m 

 ^C. Prodr. X. 353. 



Benth. in 

 Humansdorp Div. ; 



.CoAsr Region : George Div. ; George, Schlechter, 23,>1 n»™f J^do' 

 without precise locality, i3oZ»., 2411! Uitenhage D.v. ; m the fo e«t« ofAMp. 

 ^te 7905a! Enon, Dre.e, 7^511 banks of the Zwartkops K.ver, AcyAer, 



