﻿358 scROPHULARiACEiE (Hieru). [Limosella. 



or narrowed at the apes, attenuate below, erect ; blade usually 

 5-nerved, entire, i-l| in. long, xo'l i^- Inroad, broadest about the 

 middle ; petioles |-4 in. long, rather robust, erect ; scapes |-2| in. 

 long, rather slender, erect in flower, decurved in fruit; flowers lilac- 

 white or blueish-white ; calyx oblong-campanulate, y-^ in. long, 

 shortly 5-lobed ; teeth deltoid-ovate, -^^ in. long ; corolla-tube 

 about equalling the calyx ; limb scarcely or very shortly exserted, 

 about } in. in diam. ; lobes ovate-rounded, about J^ in. long, thinly 

 hairy within ; stamens 4, shortly exserted ; capsule slightly exceeding 

 or about equalling the calyx, i-{- in. long, tV~tV i"- broad; style 

 about equalling the longer pair of stamens or very slightly exceeding 

 them, gently arching. Cf. L. aquatica, var. alismoides, Welw. ex 

 Hiern, Cat. Jfr. PI. Welw. i. 766. 



CoAaT Region : British KaflViiria, Mrs. Hutton ! 



Kalahari Kegion : Transvaal; Aa,\)\es Rivev, near TTtiiorin, Burhe .' Zei/her, 

 1273 ! Wilms, 977 ! Jeppestown Ridges, near Johauuesburg, QilfiUan in Herh. 

 Galpin, 6226! Houtboscli, Behmann, 5988! near Lydenburg, ScMecMer,S93il 



Eastern Region, between 4000 and 6O0O ft.: Griqualand East; near 

 Kokstad, Haygarth in Herh. Wood, 4229 ! Natal ; near Charlestown, Wood, 

 4800 I Mooi River, Wood, 3586 ! near Umkomaas, Wood, 4595 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



3. L. longiflora (0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 235); a 

 ctespitose herb, nearly glabrous, minutely glandular, about 2 in. high, 

 stoloniferous ; leaves filiform or somewhat spathulate towards the 

 obtuse apex, somewhat dilated at the base, entire, 1-2 in. long, up 

 to -^^ in. broad, erect or somewhat spreading ; peduncles erect m 

 flower, soon afterwards bent down about the middle, filiform, about 

 as long as the leaves ; calyx campanulate-funnel-shaped, tV^tV ^"• 

 long, strongly 5-nerved, shortly 5-cleft; teeth deltoid, erect, acute or 

 apiculate ; corolla blue, up to {- in. long, 2 or 3 times the length ot 

 the calyx, 5-lobed ; lobes erect, broadly ovate, rounded, several times 

 shorter than the funnel-shaped tube ; stamens 4, included within the 

 corolla-tube ; style filiform, somewhat flexuous, about -^\ in. long, 

 minutely pilose; capsule small, included within the calyx-tube, 

 apparently barren on the specimen seen. 



Eastern Reoiox : Natal; Van Reenena Pass, 6000 ft., Kuntze, 108! 

 Stated to be remarkable in consequence of the comparatively strong nerves on 

 the culjx and for the long (not rotate) shape of the corolla. 



4. L. capensis (Thunb. Prodr. 104) ; an annual aquatic or marsh 

 herb, caespitose, with or without stolons ; root fibrous ; leaves usually 

 radical and crowded, sqmetimes cauline, somewhat succulent, erect or 

 the blade floating, usually on long petioles; blade oval, narrowly 

 elliptical, oblong or sublinear, usually obtuse or rounded, sometinies 

 pointed, obtuse, rounded or attenuate at the base, entire, yV^ ^"• 

 ^^•^g' aVi in. broad, occasionally longer; petioles erect, '}-^ '^^' 

 long or even longer, filiform ; scapes or peduncles 1-floAvered, radical 

 or axillary, slender, nearly equalling or shorter than the leaves; 



