﻿Zalirdanshija.] sckophulariace^ (Hiern). 345 



brown, a in. long, pubescent outside ; limb white; segments bilobed, 

 \ in. long, ^1=- in. broad; stamens 2, included; style exserted ; 

 capsule 1-1 in. long, y^ in. broad, valves 2, bifid ; the bracts at the 

 base of the flowers up to | in. long, at length longer. Nycterinia 

 microsiphon, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 238. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Van Eeenens Pass, 6000 ft., Kuntze ! 



17. Z. villosa (F. W. Schmidt, Neue u. Selt. Pfl. 11); an annual 

 herb, sometimes almost an undershrub, 1-12 in. high, with spreading 

 pallid or Avhitish more or less viscid pubescence, or only slightly 

 pilose, often much branched, dusky-grey v/hen dry; root rather 

 thin, branched; stem bent at the base, erect; lower branches 

 decumbent or ascending, divaricate ; leaves spathulate or obovate, 

 obtuse or rounded, attenuate at the shortly petiolate or sessile 

 base, sometimes narrowly decurrent at the base, subcntire, rather 

 fleshy-herbaceous, often 3- or 5-nerved, j-l in. long, ^V-i i°- 

 broad ; lower petioles up to about ^ in. long, ciliate ; floral leaves 

 linear-oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, dilated and ciliate towards the 

 base, shaggy or glabrous on the back, entire or sparingly-denticulate, 

 exceeding the calyx below and adnate to it, obtuse, \-l in. long, 

 To-i in. broad ; spikes short or somewhat elongating, dense at least 

 above, straight, usually many-flowered ; flowers outside purple and 

 white or lilac inside, |-1 in. long; calyx often shaggy, ,1-f in. long, 

 iax, membranous, bilobed ; teeth erect^ lanceolate or ovate, small, 

 acute ; corolla-tube subglabrous or glabrous, minutely glandular 

 outside, filiform, incurved, somewhat ventricose towards the top; 

 mouth hispid, with numerous erect rigid hairs ; hmb spreading, 

 i-f in. in diam. ; lobes obovate, bifid; stamens 2, included or nearly 

 so ; anthers yellow ; capsule glabrous, bivalved, l-^- in. long. 

 Usteri, Ann. der Bot. vi. 116; WaliJ. Eepert. iii. 308, ijartly. 

 Erinus africanus, Linn. Sj). PL ed. i. 630, and Herb. ! ; Eckl. in PL 

 ^fr. Austr. n. 301 ; not of Thunb. E. selaginoides, Thunh. Prodr. 

 102, and FL Cap. ed. SchuU. 475. E. villosus, T/mnh. IL cc, 102, 

 474. Nycterinia selaginoides, Benth. in Uuolc, Gomj). Bot. May. i. 

 pO, and in BC. Prodr. x. 349; Krauss in flora, 1844, 834. 

 ^. selaginoides, Walji. I.e. Lychnidea villosa, foliis ex alis floriferis, 

 J[oruin petalis cordatis, Burm. Rar. Afr. Plant, decas 5, 139, tab. 50, 

 kl- 1. Lychnis Africana, minima, folio angustissimo, virtdi, /lore 

 purpureo, capsulis turgidis, striatis, Burm. Cat Plant. Afnc. 16. 

 Euphrasia ^thiojnca Draba; foliis, summis oris fiosculorum alfius 

 ^iivisis, Bay, Hist. Plant, iii. 401. Euphrasia' affinis frutesmis 

 Chamcedr^olia, profundius denticulata, ex PromenL Bte Spex, Ray, I.e. 



Vae. j8, glabra (Hiern); nearly glabrous, corolla about i-f '"••»"&• ^• 

 sfia.gwojdle«, 3. giahra, Benth in Hook., I.e. 'I. selaginoides, var.fi. glabra, i.n. 

 Schmidt, I.e. 



- Var. y, parviflora (Hiern); corolla a-J in. long. N. selaginoides, y parvi- 

 flora, Benth. in Hook. I.e., and in DC. I.e., 350. N. pimlla, Drege m Lmnc^a, 

 **-iy8i not of Benth. 



