﻿316 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [Phyllopodium. 



Coast Region : George Div. ; in Montagu Pass, 1200 ft., Young in Herb. 

 Bolus, 5527 ! 



8. P. capitatum (Benth, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373) ; 

 an annual herb, erect or spreading, almost shrubby at the base, 

 branched or simple, l|^-7 in. high, pubescent with rather thick 

 whitish hairs ; lower branches opposite, procumbent, the upper 

 alternate, flexuous-erect or ascending ; leaves opposite or the upper 

 alternate or quasi-fasciculate with abbreviated axillary shoots, ovate- 

 lanceolate, elliptical or oblanceolate, obtuse, more or less narrowed 

 towards the base, dentate, petiolate or the upper sessile, about 

 i-1 in. long, J— i in. broad, the upper smaller ; petioles up to | in. 

 long; flowers about ^ in. long; spikes densely many-flowered, 

 short in flower, oblong in fruit, -^— | in. long, l—^ in. broad ; bracts 

 ovate-oblong, very obtuse, puberulous on the back, adnate below to 

 the calyx, i-J.- in. long, lowest ones sheathing the young flower-head ; 

 calyx about J- in. long, pubescent, deeply 5-lobed ; corolla orange- 

 yellow, glabrous ; tube not much exceeding the calyx ; limb spread- 

 ing, subbilabiate, 5-lobed ; lobes oval-oblong, rounded, entire, rather 

 shorter than the tube, not very unequal, the two posterior shortly 

 connate ; stamens exserted ; filaments nodding at the apex ; style 

 exserted ; capsule oval-oblong, about yV in. long ; seeds numerous. 

 Kraussin Flora, 1844, 834 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 352. Manulea 

 capitata, Linn. f. Suppl. 286 ; Thunh. Prodr. 101, and Fl. Gap. ed. 

 Schult. 469. Selago cordata, Thunh. Prodr. 100, and Fl. Cap. ed. 

 Sclmlt. 464 ; not of E. Meyer. 



South Africa : without locality, Forster ! Masson ! 



Coast Region, below 500 ft. : Malniesbnry Div. ; Zwartlaud, Thunherg ! 

 near Groene Kloof (iMamre), Bolns, 4314! near Hopefield, Bachmann ! Cape 

 Div.: Wynberg, Lrege, 363a! hills about Capetown, EcHon and Zeylier! 

 Mund! iTrawss, 1123, 5oZms, 2799 partly ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, 

 Wilms, 2455 ! 



8elago cordaia, Thunb. (not of E. Meyer), has been referred by Rolfe, in Jowrn. 



■ Linn. Soc. xx. 354, 358, to P. Jieterophyllum, Bentb., but the specimens in 



Herb. Kew., which he matched with Thunberg's specimen, seem rather to belong 



to P. capitatiwi, and one of them constitutes part of Bentham's type of that 



species. 



9. p. heterophyllum (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373) ; 

 an annual herb, erect or procumbent, rather slender or wiry, simple 

 or branched chiefly at or near the base, leafy below, whitish 

 pubescent, 1|-12 in. long ; branches opposite, procumbent or 

 ascending; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, ovate or 

 lanceolate or the uppermost sublinear, obtuse or pointed, obtusely 

 narrowed or wedge-shaped at the base, the upper sessile, subentire 

 or sparingly toothed, }-} in. long, J^-f in. broad ; petioles up to 

 f m. long ; flowers about J- in. long, sessile or subsessile, purplish? ; 

 spikes many or several-flowered, dense at least above, subhemi- 

 spherical in flower, oblong and sometimes interrupted below in fruit, 

 ■}-'\ m. long, i-f in. broad ; bract lanceolate-oblong or oval, obtuse, 

 adnate below to the calyx and very short pedicel, ^H ^^- ^^°S' 



