﻿318 sckophulakiacea: (liieru). [Phy Hop odium. 



alternate, leafy below ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 elliptical, ovate or broadly obovate, obtuse or obtusely narrowed, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, repand or subentire, }-} in. long, -^.--^ in. 

 broad, glandular-pilose and herbaceous-green on both faces ; petioles 

 aV-J in- long ; flowers about } in. long, alternate, 2-5 together in 

 numerous short terminal not capitate clusters ; pedicels bracteate, 

 very short ; bract elliptical, petiolate, leaf-like, adhering to the 

 pedicel or to the base of the calyx, about equalling or exceeding the 

 flower ; calyx deeply 5-lobed, yV in. long, scarcely bilabiate, minately 

 viscid-pilose outside ; segments lanceolate, acute, scarious along the 

 margin ; corolla minutely glandular, marcescent, scarcely bilabiate ; 

 tube cylindrical, J^ in. long, J^ in. in diam., slightly dilated and on 

 one side orange-coloured towaids the apex, otherwise pallid ; limb 

 patent, 5-lobed, xV^g in. in diam. ; lobes ovate or oblong, -3V-2V ^'^• 

 long, pallid ; stamens glabrous or very minutely glandular ; anthers 

 small, rounded, 1 -celled by confluence, one pair subexserted, the 

 other subincludcd ; filaments filiform, short, inserted on the upper 

 part of the corolla-tube ; style filiform, very minutely glandular, 

 subexserted ; capsule ovoid, slightly compressed, glabrous, toughly 

 membranous, pallid, septicidal, tV~ tV ^^- ^^^K'> valves 2, bifid ; 

 placentas narrowly oblong, aV"^ i"- ^ong ; seeds minute, numerous, 

 oval, black, glabrous. 



Kalahari Eegion : Transvaal ; among rocks on the north side of Bezuideii- 

 houts Valley, near Johannesburg, Band, 1326 ! 



12. P. minimum (Hiern) ; a dwarf herb, annual, erect, hispid - 

 pubescent with short whitish spreading hairs, simple or somewhat 

 branched at the base, ■^— f in. high; root slender, 1-2 in. deep, with 

 very slender fibres ; stem and branches leafy ; leaves oval, rounded, 

 ■wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate or alternate base, |-f in. long, 

 Jg-i in. broad, hispidulous or glabrous, entire, opposite or the upper 

 alternate ; flowers several, i in. long, sessile or subsessile, in small 

 subcapitate terminal bracteate spikes ; bract ovate, obtuse, y-i in- 

 long, entire, each inserted on or adherent to the lower part of the 

 calyx and shortly exceeding it ; calyx pallid, tubular, oblong, thin, 

 shortly and about equally 5-cleft, i-i in. long, hispid outside, 

 aV in. broad; teeth lanceolate, about ^V in. long; corolla-tube 

 ■^ in. long, narrow, minutely puberulous outside ; limb spreading, 

 nearly y\ in. in diam., apparently purplish, 5-cleft; lobes rounded, 

 somewhat unequal ; stamens inserted at or near the top of the 

 corolla-tube, glabrous, two of them just exserted, the other two 

 shortly included ; filaments short ; style glabrous, shortly exserted. 



Cbntral Region : Calvinia Div. ; Hantam, Meyer ! 



13. P. glutinosum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 220) ; a 

 wiry herb, perhaps perennial, suffruticose, glutinous-pubescent, much 

 branched ; branchlets terete, rather slender, leafy, procumbent or 

 ascending, yellowish-green when dried, 3-7 in. long ; leaves opposite 



