﻿336 SCEOPHULARIACE^ (Hiern) . \_ZaIuzianshija. 



the sessile or subsessile base, entire or dentate, thinly coriaceous or 

 somewhat fleshy, more or less spreading, glabrous or puberulous, 

 1-3 in. long, ^-| in. broad, 3-nerved at the base ; upper stem-leaves 

 rather erect, often adpressed, gradually smaller, 1-nerved; floral 

 leaves broadly lanceolate, amplexicaul, .V-1 in. long ; spike dense, 

 bracteate, usually elongating, terminal; flowers 1|— 2 in. long; calyx 

 narrowly oblong, ?-§ in. long, tV-s ^^- broad, deeply bilabiate, 

 pubescent or glabroiis but ciliolate ; teeth small, ovate-deltoid, ob- 

 tuse ; corolla glandular-pubescent or -puberulous outside, marcescent, 

 opening only at night or in dull weather, crimson or purple or brown 

 outside, Avhite or creamy inside, or white edged with rose ; tube 

 slender, a^o^xV ^^- broad, glabrous within ; throat puberulous ; limb 

 patent, -^-f in. in diam. ; lobes 5, obcordate or obovate, bifid ; 

 lobules emarginate or 2-3-cleft and rounded ; stamens didynamous, 

 glabrous, the longer pair with anthers just ex.serted ; style glandular 

 or glabrous, exserted ; capsule hard, coriaceous, |-J in. long. Krauss 

 in Flora, 1844, 834. Erimis maritirmis, Linn. /. Suppl. 287 ; 

 Th7mb. Prodr. 102, and FL Cap. ed. Scltult. 474. Nycierinm 

 maritima, Benth. in HooJc. Comp. Bot. Maq. i. 369, and in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 348 ; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii," ii. 238. N. coriacea, 

 Benili., 11. ce. N. spathacea, Benth. ^ 11. cc. Z. coriacea and Z. 

 spathaeea, Whip., I.e., 306. JV". natalensis, Bernhardi ex Krauss, 

 I.e. ; JIarv. Thes. Gap. i. 37, t. 58. Z. natalensis, Bernhardi, I.e. 



Var. ;S, pubens (Hiern) ; plant clothed with short curly hairs ; leaves above 

 the middle dentate. 



Vak. 7, breviflora (Hiern) ; flowers less than 1 in. long. Perhaps a distinct 

 species. 



Vab. 5, fragrantissima (Hiern) ; annual; flowers very fragrant. 



Vab. €, atro-purpurea (Hiern); corolla-limb broad, | in. in diam.; flowers 

 blackish-pnrple. 



Var. ^, grandiflora (Hiern) ; corolla-limb about 1 in. in diam. 



Coast Region, ascending from the shore to 4O0O ft. : Cape DIv. ; hills near 

 Cape Town, EcMon ^ Zeyher .' Cape Flats near Princess Vley, MacOwan, Iferh.^ 

 Ami. Afr., 1932! Humansdorp Div.; sea -shore close to Zeekoe River, Thunherg : 

 Stockenstrom Div. ; summit of Elands Berg, Scully, 385 ! Kat Berg, Baur, 

 1106! Ecklon ^ Zeyher, 62! Cathcart Div. j near Klipplaats River, Ecldon 

 .y Zeyher! hills between Shiloh and Windvogel Berg, EMon ^'•Zeyher, 239! 

 Stutterheim Div. ; mountain near Dohne, Flanagan, 1715 ! King Willi amstown 

 Div.; near Kachu (Yellowwood) River, Drege, 4740a! Vak. j3: Stockenstrom 

 Div. ; Kat Berg, Hatton ! Vab. S : Knysua Div. ; sand hills at Plettenberg 

 Bay, Burchell, 5318 ! Bathurst Div. : mouth of the Great Fish River, BurcheU, 

 3726! 



Cenieal Region, between -1000 and 8000 ft. -. Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, 

 MacOwan, 1632 ! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Graaff Reinet, MacOivan, 53 ! Aliw»I 

 North Div. ; top of the Witte Bergen, Drege, 7895 ! 



Kaiahabi Region, between 2000 and 7000 ft.: Orange River Colony; 

 Drakensberg, Cooper, 2848 ! Mont aux Sources, Flanagan, 12035 ! and withont 

 precise locality, Cooper, 891 ! 892 ! 893 ! 2848 ! 2851 ! Basutoland, Coopi^r, 

 2847 ! Transvaal ; near the Crocodile River, Barber, 13 ! near Bronkhorst Ri*'^'"', 

 Wihm, 1039! Saddleback Range, Barberton, Galpin, 829! Macmac, Mudd. 

 near Lydenburg, Atherstone ! Wilms, 1038! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock . 

 Vab. y : Basutoland ; Drakensberg, Sanderson, 647 ! Orange River Colony, 

 Coop**)-, 1089 ! 



