﻿Phyllopodium.] sckophulariace^ (Hiern). 317 



haiiy on the back and margin ; calyx oblong, 5-cleft about ball- way- 

 down, about 1 in. long; lobes hairy on the back and margin, 

 lanceolate ; corolla glabrous ; tube scarcely as long as the calyx ; 

 lobes oval or ovate, short ; stamens exserted ; style shortly exserted ; 

 capsule ovoid-oblong, |-|- in. long; seeds black, wrinkled, :i\y in. 

 long. Benifi. in DC. Prodr. x. 352. Manuka heterop/i/jlla, Linn. f. 

 Suppl. 285 ; Thunb. Frodr. 101, and Fl. Cap. ed. Sehu'lt. 469. 



South Africa: without locality; Masson ! Oldenburg, 449! 854! Auge 

 {Nelson) I 



Coast Region, ascending to 2,500 ft. : Vanrbynsdorp Div. ; siind-hilLs iit 

 Ebenezer, Krege, 3636 ! Clanwilliain Div. ; Blamy Berg, Schleclitiir,_ 84.45 l uwir 

 Alexanders Hoek, ScMeohter, 5148 ! Piquetbcrg Div. ; Pi(juiuiers Kloof, 

 Sch lechter, 10 747 I Malmesbury Div. ; sandy parts of Zwartlaiid, Thunhcry .' 

 near Groenekloof( Mamre), -BoJms, 4315 ! Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, WrigJit, 5941 

 various places around Cape Town, Ecklonf Harvey, 433! 512! Wolley Bod. 

 142 !^ 1582 ! 143.1 Bolus, 2799 ! Wilms, 3550 ! Rehmann, 815 ! 816 ! 



Wbsteen Eegion : Little Namaqualaud ; on hills at Xaroechas, near Steiu- 

 kopf> 3000 ft., Schlechter, 11396 ! Zabies, Little Namaqualand, Max Schlechter, 

 127! 



In Schlechter, 5148 ! the dried flowers appear purplish. 



ZeyAer, 3496! from the River Zondereinde (Caledon or Swellendam Div.) 

 belongs to this or an allied species. 



10. P. pumilum (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 373) ; an 

 annual herb, erect or spreading-erect, slender, simple or branched 

 especially about the base, leafy usually at the base only, whitish- 

 puberulous, 2-4 in. high ; branches opposite or the upper alternate, 

 diffuse, procumbent or ascending; leaves opposite or the upper 

 alternate, obovate, oblong or oblanceolate or the uppermost sublinoar, 

 obtuse or rounded, wedge-shaped at the base, petiolate or the upper 

 sessile, entire or subdenticulate, j\-^ in. long, -^-^ in. broad; 

 petioles up to J in. long, slender; flowers about xV-tV i^^- lo"o' 

 sessile or subsessile ; spikes several- or few-flowered, subhemispherical 

 or in fruit hemispheroidal, dense, ^W i^- ^<^"&' i^i "^- ^^'^^'^ > 

 bract oblong or ova), very obtuse, sessile, adnate at the base to the 

 ^^^y^> tV-A in- long, papillose-puberulous on the back, ciliolate ; 

 calyx deeply 5-eleft, J^^-^V in- ^ong J ^^^^es oblong-linear, subobtuse, 

 ^iiliolate ; corolla purple, nearly glabrous ; tube about ^V in. long or 

 'I little more ; limb short ; stamens exserted ; style longer than the 

 corolla-tube ; capsule oval-oblong, glabrous, xV-fo i"- ^^"g ' ^^'^'^^ 

 several. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; Packhuis Berg, 2500 fit.. Schlechter, 

 0619 ! Clamvilliam, 350 ft., .SWiZccTiier, 5059 ! ^ _ „. 



Western Region, below 1000 ft. : Little Namaqualand ; near Grocnc River, 

 ^reje, 363c ! near Eleven Mile Station, Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-AJr., bW . 



11. P. rupestre (Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1903, 365) ; an annual herb, 

 ^veak, viscid puberulou?, about 3 in. high, branched chiefly near the 

 ground; branches numerous, slender, subterete, decumbent or 

 ascending, 2-4 in lon^' leafy at the bottom, sparmgly branched 

 above; middle internodes comparatively long; branchlets mostly 



