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or the uppermost alternate, those on the horizontal branches vertical, 

 elliptical or somewhat obovate or ovate, obtusely narrowed, more or 

 less wedge-shaped at the sessile or subsessile base, strongly dentate, 

 firmly herbaceous, yellowish- or dusky-green when dried, |-|in. long, 

 To-f i^- broad ; bract leafy, oval-oblong, obtuse, -J— ^ in. long, 

 iV-yV ill- broad, viscid-pubescent on both faces, sessile, adhering to 

 the lower part of the calyx, entire ; spikes terminal, cylindrical, 

 dense above, laxer below, many-flowered, J-lf in. long ; flowers 

 i-f in. long, su.bsessile or sessile ; calyx campanulate-oblong, 

 somewhat compressed, -} in. long, deeply 6-lobed ; lobes linear- or 

 lanceolate-subulate ; corolla nearly glabrous ; tube about }^ in. long, 

 rather slender, somewhat dilated towards each end, often bent above 

 the calyx ; limb spreading ; lobes obovate-rotund, entire, i-q— xa in. 

 long ; stamens glabrous, longer pair shortly exserted, shorter pair 

 shortly included ; filaments filiform, inserted on the ujiper part of 

 the corolla-tube ; anthers all alike, subreniform, 1-celled ; style 

 filiform, glabrous, exserted ; capsule ovoid-oblong, glabrous, -J— I in. 

 long, somewhat compressed ; seeds numerous. 



Coast Region : Worcester Div. j on the top of Matroos Berg, about 6000 ft., 

 Marloth, 2316 ! 

 Kalahabi Ebgion : Transvaal ; Lydenburg, Wilms, 1060 ! 



14. P. Schlechteri (Hiern); a suffruticose herb, branched from 

 the base ; stem perhaps 9 in. long, erect ? ; branches opposite or the 

 upper alternate, divaricate, rambling, interlacing, slender, wiry, 

 viscid-pilose, moderately leafy ; leaves opposite or alternate, occa- 

 sionally with abbreviated leafy shoots in their axils, ovate or elliptical, 

 obtuse, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, submembranous, 

 glandular-papillose, incise-dentate, shortly petiolate or subsessile, 

 A-f in. long, Jg-i in. broad; teeth ovate, obtusely pointed or 

 rounded; petioles up to | in. long; fruiting calyx persistent, 

 5-partite ; segments glandular-pilose, subiinear or subulate, J in. long; 

 bract oblong, spathulate or subiinear, yV-« i"- ^o^S' glandular-pilose, 

 adnate at the base to the very short pedicel ; flowering calyx ^\, in. 

 long, viscid-pilose, subsessile ; basal bract -jV in. long ; corolla-tube 

 To in. long ; capsules approximate, 2 or 3 or few together at the 

 apex of the branch or branchlet, subsessile or very shortly stalked, 

 T in. long, glabrous ; seeds about j'o i"- ^^ng ; testa pallid. 



Central Region : Ceres Div. ; rocky places near Sand River, in the Cold 

 Bokkeveld, 4500 ft., Schlechter, 10113! 



15- P. alpinuin (N. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 128); an 

 annual herb, dwarf, suffruticose, erect or depressed, }-l J in. high, 

 branched below, puberulous ; branches wiry, decumbent or ascending, 

 1-2 in. long, densely leafy ; leaves opposite or scattered, often secund, 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed towards the base, sessile or subsessile, 

 firm, subglabrous or pilose, minutely glandular, subentire or few- 

 toothed, l-l in. long, a'—xV i°- ^^^^^ ' flowers sessfle or subsessde, 

 5 in. long ; spikes hemispherical, many-flowered, dense, f-.} in. in 



