﻿350 scROPHGLARiACB.^ (Hiem). [Zalnzianshja. 



rather numerous, sessile or siibsessile, arranged in dense capitate or 

 short and crowded terminal spikes which are occasionally interrupted 

 below ; calyx deeply bilabiate, ^- in. long, glabrous or puberulous ; 

 teeth 5, very short, apiculate ; corolla-tnbe slender, minutely 

 glandular-papillose ; mouth glandular-puberulous ; limb spreading, 

 l—^ in. in diam. ; lobes obovate, entire ; stamens 4, glabrous, one 

 pair shortly exserted, the other shortly included ; style about 

 equalling the corolla-tube ; capsule f in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous. 

 Nycterinia peduncular is, Bentli. in Hook. Gamp. Bot. Mag. i. 371, 

 ami in DC. Prodr. x. 350, 



Coast Eegion, ascending to 2000 ft. : Bathurst Div. ; near Theopolis, 

 Ecklon ! Albany Div. ; Fish River Heights, Hutton ! neai- Grahamsto'.vn, Mac- 

 Owan, 1251 ! and without precise locality, Zeyher I 



Central Region: Cei-esDiv.; near Zuk River, Biircliell, 1257! 



Western Region, between 2000 and 3000 fc. : Little Naniaqualnnd ; near 

 Klip Fontein, Bolus, Herh. Norm., 654 ! Modderfonteia, Whitehead ! Haazen- 

 kraals River, Drege, 7901?) ! 



Benthani in Hook. I.e. mentions two varieties, a. Mrsuia, and 6. glahriuscula, 

 the latter being represented by Drege, 790-l:J>. 



25. Z. gilioides (Sehlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 182) ; an 

 annual herb, '2-l\ in. high, with the habit of Z. jjeduncidans, 

 Walp. ; leaves approximate at or near the base of the stem, patent, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, abruptly narrowed or 

 wedge-shaped at the base, entire or distantly denticvdate, very thinly 

 puberulous or especially on the upper face glabrous, together with 

 the petiole |-f in. long, {—^j^ in. broad; petiole -jV-i in. long ; stem 

 usually leafless, occasionally bearing very few distant pairs of sessile 

 smaller leaves; spike abbreviated, 2-6-flowered; bracts sessile, erect, 

 lanceolate or oblong-linear, pilose-ciliate along the lower half of the 

 margin, -3— 1 in. long; calyx subbilabiate, ^— i- in. long, hispidulous ; 

 lips connate high up, membranous on the margin ; upper lip shortly 

 3-lobulate ; the lower a little longer, shortly 2-lobulate ; corolla-tube 

 elongated, slender, cylindrical, thinly glandular-puberulous, 1-1 i^i- 

 long, scarcely more than -^^ in. in diam. ; limb patent ; lobes obovate, 

 entire, obtuse, glabrous, sulphur-coloured, sometimes reddish, i in- 

 long, 2 of them a little shorter ; throat glabrous ; anthers 4, one pair 

 exserted, the other included within the corolla-tube ; style filiform, 

 glabrous, as long as the corolla-tube or shortly exserted ; capsule 

 obliquely oblong, glabrous, as long a3 the calyx. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliaiu Div.; Bidouw Berg, 3000 ft., ScldecMer, 8681 ! 

 Cextkal Region: Middelburg Div.; Conway farm, 3600 ft., QiljiU"" " 

 Tle^-b. Oalpin, 5570! 



Perhaps only a variety of Z. 2^eduncularis. 



26. Z. alpestris (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 480) ; a perennial 

 herb, shrubby at the base; stem erect or ascending, pubescent 

 12-14 in. high ; internodes rather short ; lowest leaves ovate, 

 I— f in. long, crenate-serrate, yVv ii»- hroad ; the upper linear, 

 quite entire or few-toothed, somewhat glabrous, f,-l} in. loOo' 



