﻿Phyllopodium.] scROPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). 321 



Eastern Region : Terabuland ; Bazeia Mountain, 3500 ft., Baur, 808 ! 



18. P. krebsianum (Benth. in DC. Prodr, x. 353) ; a suffruticose 

 herb, possibly annual, erect, branched from the base, 1-2 ft. high ; 

 branches hard or wiry, pale purplish, leafy, subglabrous, marked with 

 opposite elevated puberulous lines along each internode ; leaves 

 opposite and decussate or occasionally ternate, lanceolate or oval- 

 oblong, acute or obtuse, somewhat narrowed towards the decurrent 

 base, nearly glabrous, subciliolate near the base, sessile, firm, serru- 

 late, }-lJ- in. long, J— i in. broad, 3-1 -nerved; flowers subspicate, 

 whitish-pink, about f-} in. long; spikes several-flowered, dense, 

 |-1| in. long, i-f in. broad ; bract leafy, adnate to the very short 

 pedicel, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, serrulate or incise-dentate, 

 ^:— } in. long; calyx -}-^ in. long, 5-cleft half-way down ; lobes oval- 

 oblong, obtuse, entire, ciliolate, erect; corolla-tube whitish?, -^,-1 

 in. long, glabrous outside, nearly straight; throat orange-yellow ?, 

 pubescent ; limb somewhat obliquely spreading, purplish 1 ; lobes 

 rounded or obtuse, about -}—} in. long; stamens glabrous; filaments 

 filiform, inserted about the base of the corolla-throat ; anthers obloug, 

 tV in- long, one pair shortly exserted, the other at the mouth of the 

 corolla; style shortly exserted, filiform, entire at the slightly 

 thickened stigmatic apex ; capsule oval-oblong, glabrous, about 

 H in. long. Benth. in Rook. Ic. PL xi. 63, t. 1079. 



South Aprica : without locality, Kvehs, 238 ! 



Ce.ntbat. JiEGiON, between 3500 and 4.500 ft. : Somerset Div. ; on the gmssy 

 slopes of Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 1363! 1381! Cradock Div.; Elands Bsrg, 

 Oooiier, 249 ! Graaff Reinet DLv. ; Oucle Berg, near Graaft' Reinet, Bohi.s, 

 735 ! 



XXIV. POLYCARENA, Benth. 



Calyx oblong or campanulate or in fruit subhemispherical, bilabiate, 

 ^>ifid or in fruit bipartite, 5-toothed, membranous, persistent; 

 anterior lip bidentate ; posterior lip tridentate. Corolla tubular,_thin, 

 niarcescent ; tube subcylindrical or campanulate, a little dilated 

 about the apex, exceeding the calyx or nearly included ; limb more 

 or less spreading, 5-lobed ; lobes not very unequal, or the two 

 posterior (exterior) connate high up, entire, usually shorter than the 

 tube. Stamens didynamous. glabrous ; filaments filiform, inserted on 

 the corolla-tube; anthers all alike, rounded, usually exserted, 

 1-celled by confluence. Ovary 2-celled, glabrous; style fahform, as 

 long as or longer than the corolla-tube, narrowly clavate towards the 

 obtuse stigmatic apex; ovules numerous. Capmle ovoid or sub- 

 globose, somewhat compressed, obtuse, toughly membranous, septi- 

 cidal, bursting the calyx ; valves bifid, tieeds numerous or several, 

 small, irregularly pyramidal -polyhedral. 



Annual or rarely perennial herbs, small, occasionally « """^t. ^"f'" ^''';;; 

 »0'e or less viscid-pilose, scarcely turning black when '>^V'Ower leases 

 opposite or crowded, uppe^ alternate or opposite, sometimes l^^ £™*'"„; 

 flowers small, mostly spicate, nnibracteate at the base; bracts leaf-iike, moie oi 

 less adnate below to the calyx and short pedicel ; spikes terminal. 



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