﻿328 scROPHULARiACE^ (Hiern). [Folijcarena. 



spicate ; spikes vei-y short or in fruit oblong, ^~\ in. broad, few- or 

 several-flowered ; calyx unequally 5-lobed, obscurely bilabiate^ 

 ■y\,-^ in. long ; lobes -/o—tb i^- lo^^n > corolla bilabiate ; tube -iV-» '^^■ 

 long ; lower lip 3-lobed, at first blue, afterwards rosy, i\-'l- in. long; 

 upper lip shorter, 2-lobed, whitish with 2 orange marks ; filaments 

 dusky, about {^ in. long ; anthers exserted ; style about ^ in. loug ; 

 young capsule j^ in. long. 



Kalahaki Region : Bechuaiialaud ; by the Moshowa River, neai' Takau, 

 Burchell, 2252/6 ! 



Occurs also in Damaraland. 



11. P. pubescens (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 372); an 

 annual herb, erect or ascending, viscid-pilose, slender or fairly robust, 

 2-12 in. high, simple or branched, moderately leafy; branches very 

 slender or wiry ; leaves opposite or alternate, sublinear or oblong or 

 the lower obovate, obtuse, more or less narrowed towards the sessile 

 or shortly petiolate base, dentate or entire, l—^- in. long, -3^-^ in- 

 broad; spikes dense, capitate, few- or many-flowered, globose in 

 flower, oblong in fruit, about ^ in. broad ; bract elliptic-oblong, 

 viscid- pilose, concave, y2— a ^^- ^o^g 5 flowers ^-\ in. long, sessile or 

 subsessile, yellow ; calyx about ^ in. long, viscid-pilose, shortly 

 bilabiate, 5-dentate, 2 lower teeth very small, 3 upper ovate-deltoid 

 rather less small ; corolla-tube about equalling the lower lip of the 

 calyx, J in. long; lobes 5, somewhat spreading, about yV in. long, 

 oval, obtuse, entire ; stamens glabrous, exserted ; style shortly 

 exserted ; capsule oval, a little compressed, about j in. long. Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 351. Polecaria pubescens, Drege, Zivei PJianzen- 

 'jeofjr, iJocumente, 94. 



Coast Kegion : Tnlbagli Div. ; between New Kloof uud SUiugeuheuvel, below 

 lU00ft.,X>rer7e, 549a! 



Wkstern- Region, from ISOUto 3200 ft. : Little Namaqualaiid ; ucar Haawm^ 

 kjaAls River, ^rgije^lgjiaL! near Silverfouteiii, Dre<jc, 549c ! mountains near 

 Ookiep, Bo?((s, in Herb. Norm. Aud.-Afr., 657! Vaurbynsdorp Div.; Karee_ 

 ^^r^nj^chXechter, 827C ! 



12. P. Maxii (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, viscid-puberuluUb^ 

 rather slender, branched, pale green, 4-5 in. high ; stem purplish 

 near the base ; branches opposite or the upper alternate, divaricate, 

 ascending, moderately leafy; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or sub- 

 linear, obtuse, attenuate to the sessile or scarcely petiolate base, 

 entire or few-toothed, minutely glandular, pilose, opposite or the 

 upper alternate, J-l v in. long, x^-i in. broad ; teeth patent, obtuse ; 

 spikes numerous, corymbose", many-flowered, dense, subhemi- 

 spherical or hemispheroidal, \-\ in. long, }-|- in. broad; bract 

 ra-rV i'l- long or the lowest up to ^ in. long, oval-oblong, entire or 

 the lowest few-toothed, glandular-pilose, ciliolate, adnate to the 

 base of the calyx; flowers about J in. long, subsessile; calyx 

 bilabiate, glandular-pilose, ciliate, partly purplish in fruit ; anterior 

 part I in. long, posterior i\; in. long ; anterior lip very shortly and 



