﻿338 scROPHULARiACE^ (Hiern). [Zaluziaushya. 



3. Z. capensis (Walp. Eepert. iii. 307); root fibrous, annual; 

 stems erect or ascending, herbaceous or rarely rather shrubby towards 

 the base, branched from the base, 4-20 in. high, hard, rather slender, 

 wiry ; branches more or less shaggy or nearly' glabrous, leaf j% alternate 

 or opposite, dusky ; leaves opposite or scattered and alternate, some- 

 times several together subfasciculate, unequal, linear or the lower some- 

 what lanceolate, obtuse, somewhat or scarcely narrowed towards the 

 base, sessile or subpetiolate, entire or sparingly toothed, ~-2 in. long, 

 1-nerved, the lower crowded and spreading; the floral usually somewhat 

 lanceolate, ciliate, entire or sparingly toothed, f-1 in. long; spikes 

 oblong, short or somewhat elongated, few- or many -flowered ; flowers 

 alternate, sessile, 1-lf in. long; calyx narrow, -|-^ in. long, deeply 

 bilabiate ; segments ciliate, shortly toothed at the apex ; corolla-tube 

 slender, glandular-puberulous outside ; limb spreading, ^f in. in 

 diam., purplish or brownish outside, white within ; segments obovate- 

 bifid ; stamens didynamous, upper pair just exserted ; style exserted 

 or about as long as the corolla- tube ; capsule glabrous, f-|- in. long. 

 Cf. Erinus capensis, Linn. Mant. alt. 252. E. cetliiopicus, Thunb. 

 Prodr. 102, and M. Cap. ed. Schult. 473. Nycterinia capensis, 

 Benth. in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 370, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 349 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834. Cf. E. lychnideus, Linn. /. 

 Suppl 287. 



Walpers, I.e., gives 4 varieties, as follows : — 



Vab. a, hirsuta ; branches rather shaggy, leaves hirsute on both faces. 



Vak. i8, glabriuscnla ; brandies and leaves nearly glabrous. 



Var. 7, foliosa ; leaves smaller and crowded, spike few-flowered. Nycierlnia 

 capensi!<, y foliosa, Drege, Cat. PI. Eisicc. Afr. Aust. 3. 



Vae. 5, tenuifolia; leaves narrowly linear, nearly glabrous. Nyderinia 

 capensis, S tenuifolia, Drege, I.e. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunherg .' MassonJ Oldenlurg, Ui^^- 

 Herb. Burmann .' Vak. S : cultivated specimens! 



Coast Region, ascending from 50 to IffOO ft.: Cape Div.; various places 

 around Cape Town,- Wolley Dod, 1200! Krauss, 1638 I Bohis, 7229 I Kuysiw 

 Div.; Plettenberg Bay, Bowie ! 7Atz\kammii, Krauss, 1638. Uitenhage Div. ; 

 Grassrug, Zeyher ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Aloga Bay, Cooper, 2852 ! 2853 ! 

 Albany Div. ; near Graliamstown, MacOwan, 83, partly'! Howisous Port, Button ! 

 Queenstown Div. ; near Queenstown, Galpin, 1993 ! Cooper, 1842 ! 2850 . 

 Vab. a : Cape Div. : hills near Simonstown, Wolley Dod, 1410 ! Kuysiia Div. ; 

 Vlugt valley, Bolus, 2410! Alexandria Div. ; Zuur Berg, Cooper, 2819 ! Albany 

 Div.; Cooper, 3122! Batliurst Div.; between Bashinans River and Karesa 

 River, Ecklon, 216! Vab. j8 : Cape Div.; sand dunes (EcUon Sf Zeyher:'), 

 172 ! Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, Ecklon ! Var. 5 : Cape Div. ; Chapniaiis Buy, 

 Wolley Dod, 1553! Knysna Div.; near Groene Valley, Burchell, 5660! Bathurst 

 Div.; between Theopolis and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3917! Queenstown Div.. 

 Cooper, 372 ! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 83 ! 



Central Region, between 4000 and 5O0O ft. : Graaff Reinet Div. ! Cave 

 mountain, Bolus, 53 ! Albert Div. ; New Hantam, Drege, 7896 ! Vab. t = 

 Murraysburg Div. ; mountain slopes, Ti/son, 208 ! 



Western Region, Var. S : Little Namaqualand : hills near Mierenkasteel, 

 2000 ft., Drege, 7899 ! 



Kalahari Region, between 4000 and 7000 ft. : Orange River Colony ; Mont 

 anx Sources, J'Jaiiafyrtn in Herb. Bolus, 8221! Be.sters Vlei, Bolus, 8220! iiiw 

 without precise locality. Cooper, 999! 2841! 2844! Basutohuul, Cooper, 284:3 ■ 

 Vab. 5: Transvaal, Houtbosch, Rehrr. ann, G002\ 



