﻿314 SCROPHULARTACE^ (Hiern). [Phyllopodmm. 



970! near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4250! Zeyher, 3498! Albany Div.; Blue 

 Krantz, Burchell, 3634 I near Grahainstown, MacOwan, 659 I Bathurst Div. ; 

 near Theopolis, Burchell, 4089! near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3812 ! 



Eastebn Region, 150 to 500 ft.: Natal; Mount Moreland, Wood, 1388! 

 Berea, near Durban, 150 ft., JVood ^ 5000 ! and without precise locality, 

 McFen, 14 ! 



4. P. sordidum (Hiern) ; a viscid-puberulous herb, annual, sordid- 

 canescent, branched and leafy at the base ; branches decumbent, 

 3-6 in. long, sinuous, not slender, moderately leafy ; leaves obovate 

 or oblanceolate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, dentate, the lower 

 crowded, opposite, i-l^^ in, long, about i in, broad, on petioles 

 1—1 in. long, the upper opposite or alternate, smaller and on shorter 

 petioles; flowers about i-i in. long, in dense terminal racemes; 

 racemes subhemispherical or subglobose, ^-J in. in diam. ; pedicels 

 weak, viscid-pubescent, up to 1 in. long, the upper shorter ; bract 

 like but smaller than the leaves, dentate, ^-i in. long, adhering to 

 the lower part of the pedicel ; calyx about ^ in. long, viscid-pubes- 

 cent, deeply 5-lobed ; segments linear-spa thulate, obtuse ; corolla- 

 tube about J— ^ in. long, narrowly subcylindrical, slightly curved 

 towards the funnel-shaped apex, glandular-papillose outside, glabrous 

 inside, a little dilated at the naked throat ; lobes rounded, about 

 ij\ in. broad ; stamens glabrous, upper pair just exserted, the lower 

 inserted a little above the middle of the corolla-tube and just 

 included ; filaments J0-4V ^^- long ; anthers 1-celled, the upper 

 roundish, about ^ in. in diam., the lower oval, about ^V i"- 1°^? ' 

 style glabrous below, filiform, exserted, including the small conical 

 ovary about \ in. long; ovules numerousj very small. 



Coast Region : Malmesbury Div. ; neighbourhood of Hopefield, Bach' 

 mann, 52 ! 



5. P. diffusum (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373) ; an 

 annual herb, erect, procumbent or ascending, diffusely or intricately 

 branched, rather slender, wiry, puberulous or subpubescent ; steins 

 4-12 in. long; branches opposite or the upper alternate, divaricate, 

 leafy except at the apex ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 ovate, elliptical, oblanceolate or the uppermost sublinear, obtusely 

 narrowed, wedge-shaped or attenuate towards the base, petiolate or 

 the upper subsessile, dentate, subglabrous, i-li in. long, gVt '"' 

 broad ; petioles up to f in. long ; flowers subspicate, |-^ in- lo^§» 

 white with an orange spot on the throat above ; spikes or racemes 

 many-flowered, dense above, below lax and interrupted at least in 

 fruit, hemispherical or hemispberoidal in flower, oblong in fruit, 

 yb in. long, i-i in, broad; pedicels in fruit up to i in. long; 

 bracts linear-oblong or oval-oblong, obtuse, entire or the outer few- 

 toothed, subglabrous or shortly ciliate, adhering at the base to the 

 calyx, J-J- in. long ; calyx about J^ in. long, 5-cleft about h^i- 

 way down or rather deeper; lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, ciho- 

 late ; corolla glabrous ; tube equalling or shortly exceeding the calyx ; 

 lobes t's-ti in. long; stamens shortly exserted; style exserted; 



