﻿326 scrophulauiacea; (Hiern). [Polycarem. 



Western Region : Little Nauiaqualand ; on liills at Brackdamm, 2000 it., 

 Schlechter, 11156 ! 



6. p. Leipoldtii (Hiem) ; an annual herb, erect or ascending, 

 simple or branched, slender, 4-10 in. high ; stem purplish below, 

 pilose above, straight or flexuous ; branches opposite or quasi-quater- 

 nate, suberect or ascending, slender, pilose ; leaves linear, opposite, 

 the upper very narrow and alternate, the lower elliptical- oblong, 

 obtuse, narrowed to the base, sessile or the lower shortly petiolate, 

 subentire or few-toothed, glabrous or nearly so, -5— 11 in. long, 

 t/o— Y in. broad ; spikes •2-12-flowered, rather lax, in fruit up to 

 1^ in. long ; Howers yellow, subsessile or very shortly pedicellate, 

 1-| in. long ; bract -^—1- in. long or in fruit -] in. long, adhering to 

 the calyx-tube and pedicel, linear, obtuse, glabrous, minutely 

 glandular ; calyx ^ in. long, glabrous or the lips ciliolate, minutely 

 glandular, often purplish above or about the middle, shortly bilabiate, 

 very shortly 5-dentate ; corolla-tube |-| in. long, glabrous outside ; 

 lobes -/^ in, long ; stamens glabrous ; anthers rounded, just or 

 scarcely exserted ; style exserted ; capsule oval, -} in. long. 



Coast Reoion : Clanwilliam Div. ; in sandy soil on hill-slopes and flats, near 

 Clan William, Leixmldt, 874 1 



Westeek Region: Little Namaqualand; in stony places near Klipfontein, 

 3000 ft., Bolus, in Herh. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 656 ! 



7. P. selaginoides (Schlechter MS.) ; an annual herb, erect or 

 ascending, simple or loosely branched below, subcorymbosely 

 branched about the inflorescence, d}-5 in. high, dusky when dry ; 

 stem and branches subterete, rather wiry or slender, pilose with short 

 scattered whitish hairs, more or less leafy ; leaves oblanceolate- 

 linear or the lowest obovate, obtuse, somewhat narrowed towards 

 the base, sessile or subsessile or the lowest petiolate, pilose, entire or 

 nearly so, alternate or the lower opposite, -^-f in. long, ^V^s ^°" 

 broad ; spikes capitate, shortly spheroidal, numerous, several- or 

 many-flowered, i_v in. broad; bract oval, very obtuse, concave, 

 embracing and partly adhering to the calyx, ,V i°- ^°°»' ^^^^^ 

 glabrous or slightly or obsoletely scaly-puberulous, ciliate beloAv; 

 flowers sessile or subsessile, -^—1- in. long, crowded ; calyx 1^—^ '"• 

 long, bilabiate half-way down, S-toothed ; 2 anterior teeth short, 

 subdeltoid, 3 posterior lanceolate, slightly scaly-puberulous, all 

 ciliolate; corolla-tube -,V» in. long; lobes about yV i»- ^^°°' 

 stamens glabrous, all exserted ; filaments filiform, inserted on the 

 upper part of the corolla-tube ; style exserted ; ovary elliptic- 

 oblong ; ovules numerous. 



Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Drooge River, 1200 ft., Schlechter^ 

 8822 ! 



8. P. aurea (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 372); an 

 annual herb, eiect, simple or branched, slender, viscid-pubescent, 

 2-8 in. high, more or less leafy except the tops of the stem and 

 branches j branches alternate ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 



