﻿332 scRoi'HULARiACE.%: (Hiem). [Folycareua. 



Malniesbury Div. ; Berg lliver, EcMon,^3Q ! Worcester Div. ; Hex River Valley, 

 Wollcy Do'd, 4003! Vak. /3 : Clamvilliam Div. j ji;zelsbauk, Sclilcchkr.Slil^ 



Westbbn Region: Vaurhynsdorp Div. : Karee Bergeiij 1500 it., Scldechtcr^ 

 8257 ! 



19. P. parvula (Schlechter in Eugl. Jahrb. xxvii. 181); an 

 annual herb, slender, simple or but little branched, not unlike P. 

 rarijiom, Benth., in habit but smaller, 1^-4 in. high; stem slender, 

 leafy, shortly puberulous, at length glabrous at the base ; leaves 

 erect-patent, the lower opposite, ovate or elliptical, somewhat obtuse, 

 attenuate into the petiole, entire or distantly and obscurely .denticu- 

 late or crenulate, l-^ in. long, yV-i in. broad, the upper narrower, 

 quite entire, alternate, subsessile and gradually smaller ; spikes few- 

 flowered, at length elongate, lax ; bract linear, obtuse, sessile, 

 iV~To ^^- l'^°S ' fl^owers comparatively small, tV~to ^^- '^^Sj whitish, 

 with an orange spot on the throat ; calyx -jV-Ti: i"- ^o^^Sj bilabiate 

 about |-way down, 5-toothed ; 2 anterior teeth short, 3 posterior 

 rather longer, all obtuse ; corolla 1^3-^x0 ^^- ^ong ; tube subcylindrical, 

 glabrous, y\:-^i^ in. long; lobes subequal, broadly oblong, rounded, 

 iVaV in. long; 2 upper stamens shortly exserted, 2 lower included 

 or subexserted ; filaments filiform, inserted above the middle of the 

 corolla-tube ; style filiform, reaching almost as high as the stamens, 

 incurved ; ovary glabrous ; capsule oblong, glabrous, scarcely exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; seeds rounded, whitish. 



Coast Region : Clauwilliara Div. ; in sandy places near Zuurfontein, 15<J ^'-i 

 Schlechttr, 8534 ! 



20. P. gracilipes (N. E. Brown); an annual herb, erect, 

 slender, glandular-pilose, much branched, 6 in. high and more; 

 branches decussate or alternate, divaricate, very slender, sparingly 

 leafy ; leaves alternate or the lower opposite, oblanceolate or 

 sublinear, obtuse, narrowed or attenuate towards the base, pilose, 

 minutely glandular, entire or nearly so, ^V-./ in. long, xs-J; ^°' 

 broad, sessile or subsessile or the lowest petiolate ; spikes terminal, 

 1-7-flowered, narrow, J-2 in. long ; common peduncles very slender, 

 .!-4 in. long; pedicels alternate, short or obsolete or in fruit the 

 terminal rather long, the upper approximate in flower, rather distant 

 in fruit ; bract oval-oblong, very obtuse, about -^\ in. long, concave 

 below, embracing the calyx, adnate at the base to the pedicel, 

 minutely glandular ; flowers about -} in. long ; calyx bilabiate, 

 glandular-puberulous outside, xV in. long in flower, xV J^- ^*^"o ."^ 

 fruit, 5-dentate ; 2 anterior teeth very short, deltoid, 3 posterior 

 ovate and about -J as long as the calyx ; corolla glabrous, yellow ; 

 tube -5^ in. long ; lobes 5, oval-oblong, rounded, nearly equal, ,V i^- 

 long, somewhat spreading ; stamens exserted, glabrous ; filaments 

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

 dusky when dried; style filiform, exserted; capsule shortly 

 spheroidal, glabrous, shining, about xV in- long. 



Central Region : Calvinia Div. ; Brand Vley, Jo/(an»se», 17 '. 



