﻿Volycarena.] scrophdlaruce.^ (Hiern). 328 



Flowering calyx falling short of the 

 bract : 



Viscid-pilose ; 



Leaves elliptical or oblong; 

 flowers ^-f in. longj sta- 

 mens not exserted (15) plantaginea. 



Leaves snblinear ; flowers J in, 

 long ; stamens more or less 



exserted (Ifi) arenaria. 



Glandular-puberulous : 



Flowers rather numerous ; 



corolla-lobes J --'5 in. long ... (17) transTaalensii. 

 Flowers fevr ; corolla-lobes 

 tWt in. long: 



Flowers A- J in. long; 

 calyx -fV4 in. long; 

 corolla-lobes -^^ in, long (18) rariflora. 

 Flowers -rVnr'u i"^- '"ng ; 

 calyx iV--i_ in. long; 

 corolla-lobes xo—^u ^^• 



long (19) parvala. 



Bract Tfff iu. long ; corolla-tube -^ in. long (20) gracilipes. 

 ** Flowers racemose, :Jf-J^ in. long (21) tenella. 



1. P. capensis (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 371); an 

 annual herb, viscid-puberulous with short hairs, 3-12 in. high ; 

 stem erect or ascending, slender, corymbosely or gubfastigiately 

 branched or simple ; branches often divided ; leaves alternate or the 

 lower opposite, sublinear or the lower spathulate, obtuse or pointed, 

 narrowed towards the sessile or subsessile base, few-toothed or 

 entire, J— l-i- in. long, the lower about ^V i°- broad, the upper 

 narrower ; teeth obtuse or scarcely acute ; flowers sessile or sub- 

 sessile, crowded or somewhat lax, yellow, i-|- in. long ; heads or 

 spikes terminal, subhemispherical, elongating in fruit ; bracts linear, 

 sessile, adhering to the anterior side of the calyx-tube, ^-f in. long ; 

 calyx bilabiate, nearly half-way down, viscid-puberulous, \-\ in. 

 . long ; posterior lip 3-dentate, anterior bidentate ; teeth subdeltoid 

 or lanceolate, short, keeled ; corolla minutely glandular-puberulous 

 outside, marcescent ; tube slender, about .} in. long ; throat some- 

 what bearded ; limb spreading, about i in. ' in diam. ; lobes obov.ite 

 or rounded, entire, somewhat unequal, J-t in. long ; stamens glab- 

 rous, all alike, one pair shortly exserted, the other just reaching the 

 corolla-throat or sometimes slightly exserted ; filaments inserted on 

 tbe upper part of the corolla-tube, about ^V i°- ^^"S ' ^*y^® filiform, 

 minutely glandular-puberulous, shortly exserted; ovary minutely 

 glandular-puberulous; capsule oval, not much compressed, blunt, 

 membranous, ^-l- in. long ; seeds numerous. Benth. in DC Prodr. 

 ^- 351. Buchnera capensis, Linn. Manf. i. 88. Manuka capenm, 

 Thunb. Prodr. 101, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 4G7. Manulea viUosa, 

 ^^rs. Syn. ii. 148. Erinus umbellatus, Burm. fil Prn.lr. Cap. 17 

 partly. Lychnidea villosafoliis angustis dentai!^, florihus nmbellati>^, 

 ^umi. Mar. Afr. PI decas 5, 141, t 50, fig. 2. 



South Africa: without locality, OUenhurg ! Thunhery ! Masson! Herb, 

 ■porsten 



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