﻿330 scROPHDLAEiACEJi (Hiern). [Pol i/c arena. 



15. P. plantaginea (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 372) ; 

 an annual herb, flexuous-erect or decumbent, viscid-pilose, simple 

 or branched, slender or wiry, 1|-10 in. high ; branches decussate or 

 the uppermost scattered, divaricate or ascending, more or less leafy ; 

 leaves opposite or the uppermost alternate, elliptical or oblong or the 

 lower obovate -oblong, obtuse, narrowed or attenuate towards the 

 base, viscid-pilose or subglabrous, subentire, -}-f in. long, -ji^-^ in. 

 broad, sessile or subsessile or the lower shortly petiolate ; spikes 

 terminal, subcapitate in flower, elongated in fruit, leafy below, dense 

 above, interrupted below with often a few detached axillary flowers 

 at the base, several- or many-flowered, ^-2 in. long, {-^ in. broad; 

 flowers '}—} in. long ; bract oblong or lanceolate, very obtuse, entire, 

 viscid-puberulous, concave, below clasping and partly adhering to 

 the calyx and to the very short pedicel, -i— ^ in. long ; calyx ventri- 

 cose-ovoid, subbilabiate about ^-way down, 5-dentate, viscid-pilose, 

 I-} in. long ; teeth ovate-deltoid or lanceolate, the anterior short ; 

 corolla white ; tube about as long as the calyx ; limb very small ; 

 stamens not exserted j capsule about ^\—} ^^- long. Benth. in DC- 

 Prodr. X. 352. Manulea Plantaginis, Linn. f. Suppl. 286. M. 

 plantaginea, Thunb. Prodr. 101, and Fl. Cap. ed. SchuU. 469. 



Coast Region: Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Thunherg ! Worcester Div.; 

 Hex River Valley, Wolley Bod, 4011 ! 



Western Region, from 1200 to 3000 ft. : Little Namaqualand ; Modder- 

 Ibnteiu, Brtge, 3133a! Silverfontein, Brege, 3133b! near Klipfontein, Bolvs 

 in Serb. Norm., 658 ! Vanrliynsdorp Div. ; Karee Berg^eUj^ SchUcM&r^SJMl. 



16. P. arenaria (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, straight, rather 

 slender, viscid-pilose with whitish hairs, simple or branched, 3-7 in- 

 high ; stem subterete, purplish or pale green below; branches 

 fastigiale, slender, leafy below, pallid ; leaves opposite or alternate, 

 sometimes quasi-fasciculate Avith axillary abbreviated leafy shoots, 

 5-| in- long, 3\j-jL in. broad, sublinear, obtuse, more or less wedge- 

 shaped at the base, sessile or subsessile, subentire ; spikes elongating, 

 2-9-flowered, rather dense at the apex, rather lax or interrupted 

 below, terminating the stem and branches, ^-1 in. long; flowers 

 sessile or subsessile, about -J- in. long, apparently yellowish ; bract 

 linear-lanceolate, obtusely subulate, entire, glandular-pubescent, 

 exceeding the calyx and adhering to it at the base, i— i in. long i 

 calyx shortly bifid, 5-toothed, J^ in. long in flower, -} in. long m 

 fruit ; teeth short ; corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the flowering 

 calyx; limb rather small, partly orange in colour; lobes 5, oval, 

 entire, a'^f-re in. long; stamens glabrous, more or less exserted; 

 style exserted, glabrous ; capsule ovoid-ellipsoidal, -J in. long, i m- 

 broad. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; in sandy places near Alexanders Hoek, 

 300 ft., ScMechter, 5134 ! 



17. P. transvaalensis (Hiern) ; a slender herb, annual, U-^ in- 

 high, glandular-puberulous, simple or sparingly branched, erect or 



