﻿Zaluzianshja.] scrophulabiace^ (Hiern). 343 



simple or branched below, terete, leafy at the base; branches 

 divaricate, decumbent or ascending, long; middle iuternodes com- 

 paratively long; leaves oblanceolate, ovate or oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, more or less narrowed towards both ends, especially the 

 base, subentire or few-toothed, spreading, bright and deep green 

 above, a little paler beneath, the upper opposite or alternate, semi- 

 amplexicaul and sessile, the lower opposite and shortly petiolate, 

 3-I in. long, -fL_j in. broad; floral leaves oblong, oblanceolate or 

 lanceolate-oblong, longer than the calyx and adnate to it, subacute 

 or subobtuse, J— f in. long, the upper half spreading ; spikes terminal, 

 short or elongating, many-flowered, dense above, interrupted below ; 

 flowers about 1 in. long ; calyx shaggy, about I in. long, bilabiate ; 

 teeth 5, lanceolate or ovate, small, pointed or acute ; corolla-tube 

 filiform, straight or a little curved, glandular-papillose outside, purple, 

 striate ; throat glabrous or nearly so ; limb patent, -}-l' in. in diam. ; 

 lobes 5, obovate, bifid, white within, purple or deep rosy outside ; 

 stamens 4, one pair shortly exserted, the other shortly included ; 

 style filiform, shortly exserted or equalling the corolla-tube ; capsule 

 hi in. long. Erinm africamis, TImnh. Prodr. 102, and FL Cap. ed. 

 Schilt. 474, and Herb, partly ; not of Linn. Nycterinia africana, 

 Benth. in HooJc. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 371, and in DC. Prodr. x. 350 ; 

 Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834. Z. villosa, Walp. Bepei't. iii. 308, 

 paiily ; not of F. W. Schmidt. 



Coast Region : Woiv^ester Div. ; Hex River Kloof, Drege, 584a ! Ciipc Div. ; 

 wouutiiiiis around Cape Towu, Thunherg .' Krauss. Knystiii Div. ; Zitzikammii, 

 Krauss. Albany Div. ; Hermauns Kraul, Ecklon, 221 ! 



Central Region, between 2000-5000 ft.: Ceres Div.; near Yak River, 

 Burchell, 1259! Sornersefc Div.; Somerset East, Bowker .' Graaff Ueinct Div. j 

 Sueeuwberg Range, Drefje, 5846 ! on hills, Bolus, 1869 ! 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West; on flats, Mrs. Burher, 13 ! 



13. Z. gilgiana (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 480); an annual 

 lierb, erect, simple or branched, IHv i^- high, very elegant, pilose 

 on the young parts ; leaves ovate, a'cute, almost entire, |-J in. long, 

 H in. broad; petioles | in. long; floral leaves narrower, quite 

 entire, shaggy with white hairs, twice as long as and adnate to the 

 calyx; spike at first capitate, afterwards elongated and interrupted 

 l^elow; flowers proportionally considerable; calyx |-?, in. long, 

 Kiembranous, pilose ; corolla-tube very thinly pubescent, |-1 in. long, 

 scarcely ^ in. broad ; lobes bifid, i in. long ; lobules rhomboid, 

 tV in. long and broad, rounded. 



Central Region : Calvinia Div.; Hantani Mountains, Meyer. 



14. Z. falciloba (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 481) ; an annual 

 nerb, erect, perhaps simple ; stem (in one instance) 2f m. high , 

 leaves ovate, the lowest pair almost entire, the middle pairs more or 

 less dentate, the uppermost deeply cut ; petioles i-i ni. long ; 

 blades 1-4. in. long, A-| in. broad ; the uppermost long but only 



