﻿Polymrfna.] scROPHULABiACEa; (Hiern). 333 



21. P. tenella (Hiern) ; an annual herb, slender, erect or ascend- 

 ing, nearly simple or branched, 2-6 in. high, inconspicuously viscid- 

 pilose ; stem reddish-purple below j branches decussate or the upper 

 alternate, divaricate or ascending, very slender, pale green ; leaves 

 opposite or the upper alternate, obovate, narrowly oblanceolato or 

 sublinear, obtuse, attenuate at the base, sessile or subsessile or the 

 lowest subpetiolate, pale green, entire or slightly repand-dentate, 

 u~5 ij^« long^ Ti^o— ,s i°' broad; racemes 3-11 -flowered, lax, terminat- 

 ing the stem and branches, erect or ascending, up to about 3 in. long ; 

 pedicels very slender, divaricate, alternate, up to Jj-io. long; flowers 

 about aV-yV "i- lo"gj tawny; bract about J^-^V in. long, oblong, 

 obtiise, sessile, adhering below to the calyx, minutely glandular- 

 viscid on the back ; calyx about J^ in, long in flower or in fruit 

 iV in. long, bilabiate scarcely }-way down, 5-dentate, minutely 

 glandular outside ; teeth small, triangular, obtuse or apiculate, 2 

 anterior connate higher up than the rest ; corolla about equalling the 

 calj'x, 5 -cleft ; lobes lanceolate, subalate, acuminate, recurving 

 towards the apex, 2 posterior longer than the rest ; stamens glabrous ; 

 filaments filiform, inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers all alike, small, shortly exserted ; style filiform, shortly 

 exserted ; capsule subglobose, yV-yV i"- ^^ diam., pallid, shining, 

 bursting the persistent calyx; seeds about 4 in each cell. 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; Koude Berg near Wuppertlml, 2500 ft., 

 SrMechter, 8723 ! 



Western Region: Little Namaqualand ; on hilb at Twepfontein near 

 Concordia, 3500 ft.. Bolus, 6564 ! SchlecMer, 11335 ! 



XXV. ZALUZIANSKYA, F. W. Schmidt. 



Calyx ovoid-tubular or oblong, persistent, 5-cleft or shortly 

 5-toothed, bipartite or bilabiate ; segments 3-lobed and 2-lobe(l 

 respectively. Corolla tubular, persistent ; tube usually much exceed- 

 ing the calyx, at length splitting at the base; limb .spreading, 

 •"•-lobed, nearly regular or bilabiate ; lobes equal or not, shorter than 

 the tube, obtuse, entire, emargiaate or bifid ; throat usually sym- 

 metrical, hairy or glabrous. Stamens didynamous or rarely only 2 

 Ijy abortion of the anterior pair, posterior pair usually included in 

 the corolla- tube; filaments short, inserted near or at the top of the 

 tube; anthers oblong or rounded, by confluence 1-celled, anterior 

 pair smaller or barren, horizontal; posterior pair vertical. Ooavy 

 2-celIed ; style filiform, entire, somewhat club-shaped at the .stigma- 

 tose apex ; ovules numerous. Ca/mik ovoid-oblong, coriaceous or 

 submembranous, septicidally bivalved ; valves bifid. S^edf^ numerous, 

 small ; testa usually loose. 



Annual or perenai.al herbs or almost under.hrubs, more or less viscid and 

 usually turning black in drying; leaves simple, dentate or entire t'"" J;";;'- 

 f^Pposite.the upper often alternate; tr.cts usually eutjre, adpressed or a nate 

 to the calyx or rarely free; flowers in terminal spikes or rarely axillarv . 

 iierinaplirodite. 



^"'"caii.^m, Neck, Bleni, Bot. iii. 311, is ^fnr.■'ilea, Linn. 



