﻿324 sCROFHULARiAuEiE (Hiern), [Polycamm. 



Coast Region, below lOOO ft.: Clanwilliiim Div. ; Olifants River mountains, 

 ScWec?iteiv5083 ! Zekoe Vley, Schlechter, 8576! Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartlaiid, 

 Ecklon Sf Zeyher, 241! uear Grroene""KlooT(Mamre), Brege, 7903! Bolns, 

 4310! neiglibouiLood of Hopefield, Saldanha Bay, &c., Bachmann, 1494-1498! 

 Cape Div. ; near roadside towards Eiet Vley, Wolley Bod, 3277 ! 



^ 2. P. gilioides (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 372); an 

 annual herb, erect, slender, shortly viscid-pubescent, corymbosely 

 branched above, simple below, 3-7 in. high, with habit almost of 

 Gilid larinata, Ruiz and Pav. ; stem leafy ; branches alternate, 

 spreading-ascendinj:,', sparingly leafy ; leaves linear or nearly so or the 

 lower oblanceolate, obtuse, a little narrowed towards the sessile 

 or subsessile base, subentire, ^^-^ in. long ; teeth obtuse ; floweis 

 }j-| in. long, sessile or subsessile, rather few or several, spicate ; 

 spikes terminal, capitate and dense or in fruit laxer below ; bract 

 linear, obtuse, J-i in. long, sessile, entire, adhering to the calyx- 

 tube ; calyx jL in. long, bilabiate nearly half-way down, viscid- 

 pubescent, 5-dentate ; teeth deltoid or lanceolate, short ; corolla-tune 

 slender, glandular-papillose outside, \rl in. long; throat orange- 

 yellow, glabrous or pilose ; limb spreading, ^-]^^ in. in diam. ; lobes o, 

 obovate-oval, entire ; stamens glabrous ; filaments filiform, short or 

 very short, inserted on the upper part of the corolla-tube ; one pair 

 of anthers shortly exserted, the other appearing at the corolla-mouth ; 

 style filiform, shortly exserted ; capsule oval, not much compressed, 

 blunt, shining, glabrous, ^ in. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 351. 



Coast Region, below 1000 ft.: Cianwilliam Div.; bills iioar Brandewyn 

 River, SchlecMer. 10821 ! ClauwiHiam, Guthrie, 3353 I Tulbagh Div. ; Ceres 

 Road, 8chJechterj_8Qm[ Paarl Div.; near Paarl, Drege, 7907! Harvet/, 

 Bunbury, 155 ! / — ' -^ 



y 3. P. silenoides (Harv. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 351) ; ^n 

 annual herb, erect or suberect, simple or corymbosely branched, 

 slender, leafy, strongly viscid-pubescent, 2-5 in. high, with the- 

 appearance of a weak Silene ; leaves oblong-linear or subspatbulate, 

 obtuse, narrowed towards the subsessile or shortly petiolate base, 

 or subentire, viscid-puberulous, -^-f in. long, irV^i ^^- broad ; flowers 

 4~i ii- long, sessile or subsessile, few or several, spicate ; spikes 

 rather lax or at the apex dense; bract linear, obtuse, -^-i in- lo^& 

 sessile, entire, adhering to the calyx-tube, viscid-pubescent on the 

 back ; calyx about j-/. in. long in flower and V J^. long in fruit, 

 shortly bilabiate, viscid-pubescent, 5-nerved ; teeth 5, subdeltoid, 

 obtuse, small ; corolla-tube slender, viscid-puberulous outside, ^rs""' 

 long ; limb about J- in. in diam. ; lobes obovate-oval, entire, rounded ; 

 throat glabrous or nearly so ; stamens glabrous ; filaments filiform, 

 rather short, inserted on the upper part of the corolla-tube ; anthers 

 rounded, one pair just exserted, the other shortly included ; style 

 shortly exserted; capsule oval, somewhat compressed, pallid' 

 glabrous, shining, x in. long, at length bursting the calyx. 



Coast Region, ascending from 200 to 2300 ft. : 0]anwilliain Div, ; PiuM'"'^ 



