﻿Zaluzianshya.'] scrophdlaeiacej; (Hiern). 337 



Easteen Region, from 50 to 6000 ft. : Tembuland ; Biizeia Mountain, Baur, 

 856! and in Herb. JfacOit'an, 1632! East Griqiuiand ; near Clydesdale, ^yson 

 in MacOivan ^ Bolus Herh. Norm., 863 ! Kwenkwe Mountain," near Oatberg, 

 Bolus, 8756! Natal; Bushmans Rand Mountain, Krauss ; Umzmkulu River, 

 Brege ! Olivers Hoek Pass, Wood, 3489 ! South Downs, Evans, 351 ! Inanda 

 Wood, 26 ! Clairmont, Wood, 521! Howick and Charlestown, Kuntze, and 

 without precise locality, Gueinziiis^ .' Sanderson, 46 ^. Znlulaud; Ingonia (Ngome) 

 Gerrard, 1209! Var. y3 : Natal, Gerrard, 1991! Zululand; on dry plains, 

 Gerrard, 1210 ! Var. y -. Natal; near Van Reenen, Schlechter, 6988 ! Var. f : 

 Griqualand East; mountains around Kokstad, Tj/son, 1354 ! Natal; Clairmont, 

 Wood, 6523 ! Vae. f : Griqualand East; Mount Currie, Tyson, 1733! 



2. Z. lychnidea (Walp. Eepert. iii. 307); a viscid herb, some- 

 what shrubby at the base, dark green, clothed with softJy strigose 

 hairs, yiehling a glutinous substance similar in appearance and odour 

 to gum ladanum (D. Don) ; root perennial ; stem decumbent or 

 ascending, 3-15 in, high ; branches leafy ; leaves opposite, linear or 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, attenuate at the base, sessile, subentire, sub- 

 coriaceous, nearly glabrous, usually 1-nerved, narrowly revolute 

 along the margin, f-2 in. long, yV"! i°- broad, rather pallid beneath ; 

 floral leaves narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse, often ciliate, 

 ^-I in. long, toothed or entire ; spikes terminal, short or sometimes 

 rather elongated ; flowers expanding only in the evening or in cloudy 

 weather and then very fragrant; calyx tubular, membranous, very 

 pale green, almost white, shortly or scarcely pubescent, shortly 

 bilabiate, about f in. long ; lobes 5, short, obtuse, erect, ciiiolate ; 

 corolla-tube slender, 1-1^ in. long, livid-purple outside ; throat 

 contracted, somewhat hairy and glandular; limb spreading, deeply 

 lobed ; segments 5, wedge-shaped, bifid, milk-white inside, livid- 

 purple outside ; lobules divaricate, obtuse, spathulate ; stamens 

 glabrous, one pair just exserted, yellow ; ovary oblong; style filiform, 

 white, smooth, exserted. Wettstein in Engl, and Prantl, Pfian- 

 zenfani. iv. 3b. 68, fig. 31 E. F. Nyderinia lyrhnidea, D. Don in 

 Sweet, Brit. Flow. Qard., ser. 2, t. 239 ; Be7ii/i. in Hook. Camp. 

 Bot. Mag. i. 369, and in DC. Prodr. x. 349. 



The early synonymy has been ranch confused, and being uncertain is partly 



omihted. jBof. Reg. t. 748 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2504. 



Cf. Erinus nracilis, Lehm. in Linnxa, x. Litt. 76. , , . , r 



Cf. Erinus fragrans. Ait. Hort. Keiu. ed. 1, ii. 357, and £. lychmdea. Lam. 



Kncycl. ii. 386. 



South Africa: cultivated specimens I -rrr ■,,■ t. , itr i«==u„«. 



^ Coast Begiok : Piquetberg Dir. ,- Elands Berg, Walhch ! Mahnesbury 

 I>'v.; Saldanha Bay {EcUon S' Zeyher ?), 162! Cape D.v. ; near Cape To«n, 

 Harvey, 197! Bathurst Div. ; near the Kome River, MacOwan 391! 



Central Reciox, 3000-3500 ft.: Somerset D. v.; Bosch Berg JtfacOu an, 

 83 ! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Cave mountain near Graaff Bemet, ^''^'*'' '^f ' ^fj;^ 

 ^Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Jeppestown Ridges near Johannesburg, 

 *'^^h., GilfinaninHerb.Galpin,l479l ^ ^ „^ ^ , „p;^^,„„,, 



^, Eastern Reoion, below ICTO ft. : Pondoland ; between St. •T"''"^ ^^^7" » 

 Umtsikaba River, i>iwe/ between Umtentu River and Umznnkulu.Rivei, D,ege, 

 4739 ! 



, This speeies is diffieult to distinsui^b from Z. capensis, and perhaps both should 

 be united. 



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