﻿o44 scrophulaeiacea; (Hiern). [Zaluzianshya. 



i-i in. broadj \Yedge-shaped at the base, floral leaves sessile, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, at the apex deeply incise-dentate, shaggy, some- 

 what longer than and a little adnata to the calyx ; calyx |-| in. 

 long ; corolla-tube somewhat glabrous, f-f in. long ; lobes bifid to 

 the middle, T-shaped, J in. long; lobules very narrowly triangular, 

 falcately patent. 



Central Begion : Calvinia Div. ; Hantam Mountaius, Meyer. 



16. Z. violacea (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 183) ; an annual 

 herb, simple or somewhat branched, with the habit of Z, villosa, 

 F. W. Schmidt, but usually more slender, l|-6 in. high ; branches 

 decumbent or ascending, terete, wiry, finely pilose, almost leafless ; 

 leaves often clustered at the base of the stem, suberect, elliptical- 

 spathulate, narrowed and subacute or obtuse, attenuate into the 

 petiole, subentire or obscurely subdentate, sparingly finely pilose or 

 ciliate, together with the petiole f-1-^ in. long, \-\ in. broad ; 

 petiole i-f in. long; spikes terminal, short, densely corymbose, 

 6-20-flowered ; bracts lanceolate-oblong, somewhat obtuse or sub- 

 acute, sometimes slightly recurved at the apex, rather densely ciliate 

 towards the base, about i-f in. long ; calyx bipartite, \-\ in- 

 long ; lips connate almost half-way up, ribs hispidulous ; outer 

 segment tri dentate, with acute hispidulous teeth ; inner segment 

 bifid, a little wider than the outer, J^^ in. broad ; corolla violet 

 coloured; tube cylindrical, subfiliform, minutely glandular- 

 puberulous outside |-f in. long, J^ in. in diam. ; lobes divaricate, 

 obtusely bilobulate, wedge-shaped at the base, \ in. long; throat 

 with erect setae ; stamens didynamous, upper pair exserted, lower 

 pair included iu the corolla-throat; anthers narrowly oblong, upper 

 pair twice as long as the lower ; style filiform, somewhat thickened 

 at the apex, shortly exceeding the corolla-tube, reaching the height of 

 the upper pair of anthers ; ovary oblong, glabrous. 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; hills near Brackfontoiii, 500 ft) 

 Schlechler, 10780 ! 



Westeen Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div.: sandy hills near the Zoufc River, 

 450 ft., Schlechter, 8113 ! ^ - ' 



16. Z. microsiphon (K. Schumann in Just, Jahresb. xxvi. i. 395); 

 a viscid-pubescent herb, apparently perennial ; stem densely leafy, 

 simple or with a few branches, 20-40 in. high, about I- in. thick 

 below, tapering upwards, turning dusky green when dry or the 

 upper part reddish ; branches even at the fruiting stage densely 

 leafy all along, leaves showing a gradual passage towards the bracts 

 but the leaves immediately below the spikes of flowers are smaller 

 and narrower than the bracts ; leaves lanceolate, quite entire, obtuse, 

 sessile, erect or adpressed, the lower 1-lf in. long and ^-i in. broad, 

 the uppermost f-i^ in. long and i^-j'in. broad ; flowers axillary, 

 sessile, solitary and the uppermost arranged in a dense bracteate 

 terminal spike 4-16 in. long ; calyx bifid, about | in. long ; corolla 



