﻿Fhyllojiodium.] sceophulakiace^ (Hiern). 315 



capsule oval-oblong, i-t in. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 353. 



South Africa : without locality, Wright, 595 ! 



Coast Region: Swellendam Div. ; Ecklon! George Div. ; Kaymans River, 

 Burchell, 5802 ! Uitenhage Div. ; near the Zwartkops Riverj Ecldon ^- ZeyJier! 

 near TJitenhage, Schlechter, 2511! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 100! 

 291 ! King Williamstown Div. ; around King Williamstown, Tyson in MacOwan 

 Sf Bolus, Herh. Norm., 846 I East London Div. : near East London, Scott Elliot, 

 1022 ! 



6. P. calvum (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, branched and 

 leafy at the base, sparingly so above, minutely glandular, 2-3^ in. 

 high, drying brown ; stems slender, erect or nearly so ; lower leaves 

 subrosulate, obovate or oblanceolate, rounded or very obtuse, attenuate 

 at the base, entire or nearly so, tV^u i^- 1*^°?? ^V~m ^^- broad ; 

 petioles up to ^ in. long, slender; upper leaves lew, opposite or 

 alternate, narrowly oblanceolate or sublinear, obtuse, somewhat 

 narrowed towards the sessile or subaessile base, x\j-|- in. long, entire 

 or with a few small teeth ; flowers capitate, Jr—J in. long ; spikes 

 hemispherical or in fruit oblong, 5-11 -flowered, dense or in fruit 

 rather lax below, -J— i in. long-, l-f in. broad, erect: bract oblong- 

 lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse, sessile, adhering to the very short 

 pedicel and to the bottom of the calyx, minutely glandular, entire, 

 To-«- in- long ; calyx -^^ in. long, deeply 5-cleft, glandular ; lobes 

 sublinear, rather pointed ; corolla glabrous ; tube -J- in. long, pallid ; 

 limb purplish ? ; lobes oval-oblong, rounded at the apex, entire, 

 unequal, ^V-tW i"- long ; throat orange-yellow on one side ; 

 stamens shortly exserted ; anthers rounded, all alike ; capsule j\ in. 

 long. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; hij^hlands at Brug Spruit, between Middel- 

 burg and Pretoria, about 4500 ft., Bolus, 7674 ! 



7. P. multifolium (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect or ascending, 

 viscid-pilose, 4-10 in. high; stem rigid, rather slender, dull- 

 purplish, leafy; branches ascending, slender, moderately leafy; 

 leaves opposite or quasi-fasieulate with abbreviated axillary leafy 

 shoots, or the upper alternate, linear or the lower oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, a little narrowed towards the base, sessile or the lower sub- 

 petiolate, sparingly toothed or entire, y^f in. long, V-.t-ttt in- broad; 

 flowers capitate, sessile or subsessile, i in. long ; spikes hemispherical 

 or oblong, dense or in fruit rather lax at the base, many-flowered, 

 H in. long, about i in. broad; bracts linear, obtusely pointed, 

 viscid-pilose, adnate below to the calyx, 1 in. long ; calyx J in. long, 

 <ieeply 5-cleft, viscid-pilose; lobes rather obtusely linear-subulate; 

 corolla glabrous; tube -} in. long; lobes oval-oblong, rounded, some- 

 ^vhat unequal, J,:-^- in. long; throat somewhat bearded; stamens 

 more or less exserted ; anthers roundly oval, all alike ; style rather 

 longer than the corolla-tube ; ovary emarginate ; capsule J- in. 

 long. 



