﻿P<di/careiM.] scrophulakiack^ (Hiern). ■* 325 



Berg, Sc7Jccfttov86U! Olifants Hiver, SchlecUer, 5008! Cam Div ; on Liou 

 .Mountain, near Capetown, Karvcy ! Muncl! Hooker, 31 \ Bolm, 4769! Wollen 

 JJod, 2780 ! 3090 ! 



4. P. glaucescens (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, simple or some- 

 what branched above, very slender, glaucescent, puberulous, naked 

 near the inflorescence, moderately leafy below, 3-4 in. high ; 

 branches short, suberect; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 elliptical or narrowly obovate or sublinear, nearly entire, obtuse, 

 narrowed towards the base, the upper sessile, minutely glandular- 

 pulverulent, ]-2 in. long, ~/o-i in. broad ; flowers subcapitate, 

 very shortly pedicellate, -J-i in. long; heads subglobose, dense, 

 5- or few-flowered, erect or slightly nodding, ]-»- in. long or less, 

 :i-v in. broad; bract oval-oblong, obtuse, entire or sparingly toothed, 

 glandular-puberulous, adnate to the calyx-tube, |-i in. long, free 

 portion sometimes laterally involute in flower, afterwards flat ; calyx 

 To~i^ in. long, bilabiate about half-way down, very shortly 5-toothed, 

 rather lax^ scarcely inflated, 5 -ribbed, more or less pubescent ; 

 -J anterior teeth broadly ovate, 3 posterior subdeltoid or sub- 

 Janeeolate ; corolla-tube glabrous, }-} in. long; throat minutely 

 glandular-papillose ; lobes oval-oblong, rounded, entire, j^-^^ in. 

 ^t'ng ; stamens glabrous ; filaments tiliform, inserted about the 

 niiddle of the corolla- tube ; the anthers alike, higher pair in the 

 mouth of the corolla, lower shortly included; st3'le filiform, shortly 

 f^xserted, glandular-papillose on the narrowly clavate stigmatic apex, 

 entire, recurving at the tip ; capsule ellipsoidal, I in. long, j-'^- in. 

 broad, somewhat compressed ; seeds numerous. 



Wksibrn Regigx : Little Namaqualand ; Modderfontein, Whitehead ! 



5. P. coUina (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, rigid below, rather 

 slender, viscid-pubescent, branched, 6-9 in. high ; stem subterete, 

 purplish below ; branches erect-patent or suberect, slender, sub- j 

 virgate below, leafy, somewhat flexuose above below the inflores- i 

 cence ; leaves sublinear or the lowest oblanceolate, alternate or the 

 West opposite, often quasi-fasciculate with axillary abbreviated 

 'eafy shoots, l-l in. long, uV-i'.; i°- broad, obtuse, a little narrowed 

 towards the base, sessile, "entire or few-toothed ; spikcH capitate, 

 yubhemispherical, i-i in. in diam., several-flowered, terminal ; bract 

 oval-ovate, very obtuse, densely pubescent outside with short .spread- 

 ing whitish hairs, concave, adnate to the calyx- base, ^ in. long ; 

 'lowers sessile or subsessile, about { in. long; calyx bilabiate 

 scarcely half-way down, 5.toothed, densely and shortly pubescent, 

 l-r in. long; teeth triangular, small, 2 anterior very short, 3 

 posterior not quite so short; corolla apparently yellowish, glabrous, 

 tube about 4 in. long, limb somewhat spreading ; lobes 5, rounded 

 01' oval-oblong, entire, t--t-' in. long; stamens glabrous; filaments 

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

 rather large, roundish, exserted ; style exserted, glabrous ; ovules 

 iiumerous. 



