﻿Liitio.sella.] scfioPHULAKiACEii; (Hiern). 357 



floating, oval, oblong, oblanceolate or spathulate, rounded or obtuse, 

 more or less obtusely contracted or the narrower ones attenuate at 

 the base, usually 3-nerved, entire, firmly herbaceous or somewhat 

 succulent, -J—^- in. long, gV-f ^n. broad ; petiole longer than the 

 blade, erect or ascending, -^—4 in. long, terete or a little compressed, 

 ijj in. broad or less, the outer membranously dilated, somewhat 

 sheathing and rooting at the base ; radical fibres whitish, compressed, 

 flaccid ; stems obsolete or stoloniform ; scapes or peduncles 1- 

 flowered, radical, axillary, terete, usually shorter than the leaves and 

 numerous or several, |-1 in. long, slender, ebracteate, at first erect 

 or suberect, in fruit often recurving; calyx campanulate or cup- 

 shaped, yV-xV in- long, shortly 5-lobed, not strongly nerved, burst- 

 ing down irregularly in fruit ; teeth broader than long, minutely 

 apiculate; corolla campanulate, lilac, white or pale rosy, nearly 

 regular ; tube about equalling that of the calyx ; lobes spreading, 

 ovate-oblong, flat, obtuse or rounded, t/q-jV in. long ; stamens 4, 

 inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube, subexserted ; style 

 eccentric, short; capsule subglobose or spheroidal, ^VJ^ i". long, 

 _i__j_ in. broad. Benth. in DC Prodr. x. 426 ; Nees, Gen. PL 

 Fl. Germ. v. 37; Reichenb. Ic. FL Germ. xx. /. 1722, fiff. 1; 

 Wettstein in Engl. Sf Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. 3B, 78, /y. 35. L. 

 palustris, Linn. Mant. alt. 252 {under L. diandra). L. flmtagims- 

 folio, J. E. GiUh. Fl. Lituan. i. 122. L. diandra, Arocker, ±1. 

 Sites, ii. 406, t. 27, fig. B; not of Linn. Banuliunculus acaulis. 

 Sailer, Linzer Zeitung, 12 Sept. 1845. L. annua, Benth., I.e., ^Zi 

 {under L. aquatica). 



Vab. ;8, tenuifolia (Hook. £. Fl. Autarct. ii. 331) ; usually «'itl>o«t ;t"l«^^^^^^^ 

 leaves subcylindrical-filiform, terete or a little compressed, ^^tuse above without 

 dilated blade, the outer somewhat sheathing and membranously dlated .t tl t 

 base, 1-3^ in. long. Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. n. 19; Hiem m Journ. 



Bot. 1901, 33S. , an ff liolw; 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; near Kenilworth race-courso, 60 ,«., ^^i« . 

 7957! Varsche Y\ey,Wolley Bod, 3617 ! Vae. 3: Albany DivBusto^^^^^^ 

 River, Burcliell, 4203 ! Queenstowu Div. ; Mount Hope farm, Upper Zwart 

 Kei, 5000 ft., GWpin, 2679! j 'rici i Var fl • Orango 



Kalahari Region-. Transvaal; Johannesburg, m,nd, 719 ' V*^; f y'^JJJJt 

 River Colony ; top of Quaqua Mountain, Witz es Hoek T'^^f l"f ™;j°f 

 Road, Barrett-Haliilton! and without precise local-ty, ^^^'^^ll^^^Jj^^Z^^^ 

 Lake Chrissie, WUms, 1076! Trigards Fontein, ReUmann,mi^- "ear F.ctona, 

 A'irfc ! near Bronkhurst River, IFJZms, 1543 ! ir,Rv„ 2071' Vab. )3: 



Eastern Region: Natal; Durban, Qerrard ^ u WnU \-m' Natal; 

 Griqualand East; near Kokstad, Haygarth tn Herb. iVood, 4-^ ■ ^_ 



Mooi River, 4000 fc, Wood, 4112! near I'-^rTjar ChilestoJn. \vood, 

 Umgeni Waterfall, 2500 ft., Schlcehter, 331b. near 

 6360! J , . I. 



. Both the type and the variety are widely distributed over the world, but the 

 tormer is comparatively rare in this Flora. 



« - -r- 1 T u,.^^ Yvvi 122^ ; a marsh herb, 



2. L. maior (Diels in Engl. J^^rt>. xxv " ^i^t or sometimes 

 ^mnutely glandular, app-ently X-J^^^ ^v^^^^ 

 stolomferous, 1-6 in. high ; root fibrous , leave p apiculate 



spathulate, radical, crowded, usually ovate and pointea p 



