﻿Limosdia.] scROPHULARiACEJi (Hiern). 359 



sometimes very short, in some forms up to 3 in. long, at first erect 

 or ascending, in fruit spreading or bent downwards ; calyx cam- 

 panulate or obconical, somewhat inflated in fruit, shortly 5-lobed, 

 Ve-yVin. long in flower, -j^-i in. long in fruit ; teeth broadly ovate ; 

 corolla-tul'e about equalling the calyx ; limb rotate, J-Jrin. in diam. ; 

 lobes ovate-rounded, entire, about as long as the tube white and 

 hairy within, purplish or pale blue with a white border outside ; 

 stamens 4, glabrous; filaments inserted within the corol a-throat, 

 short; anthers pale blue; style -,\ in. long, about equalling the 

 corolla, white; stigma yellowish; capsule globose or spheroidal, 

 glabrous, very delicately bisulcate, 1 -celled, tV^tV ^^- ^o"?' i « f \"- 

 broad, at length bursting the calyx; seeds numerous, irregularly 

 oblong or ovoid, obtusely angular, tubercular-pa,nllose glabrous. 

 Thunh. Fl. Cap. ed. SchuU. 480 ; Benth. in DC. ^rodr.^ x. 4^ , 

 Benth. in. PL Drege, n. 493a, not nn. 4936, ^^^'i' ^'-'('''f'/ 

 Pflanzengeogr. Document, 103, not 56, 120; Kraxm m ^^«™. l^_*t' 

 s/jS; O Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL ni. n. 235. L. cc^rulea, Bu^ch. 

 Trav. S. Afr. i. 259, note. 



CoAsr Region, ascending to 3000 ft. : Malmesbury Div. ; ;^^3^^h^*MM. 

 493a/ Cape Div ; Simons Bay, WrigU, 461 "^'l'' f^ S KaffSls 

 River, Thunherq! Swellendam Div.; nenr the Buffelja^ts i«ver , 



Uiteuhage Div."; at the base of the Winterhoek ^I°""f "^' ^"^ge , 

 Beaufort Div. ; Cooper, 536! Queenstown Div. ; |'^V^''' "'o^^^.j; 1341/' ! 



Centrai. EegioI: 'Sutherland Div.; -f^^'^'^'^'^^^^jtgra^^^^^ 

 Albert Div.; Albert, with some krge-flowered forms P^-J^^PJ^"* J„ ^^j,. f ^ea^ 

 Cooper, 1390! near Molteno, Flaruigan, 1623 , ^^.^^J V,^J^2 Div. near 

 the banks of the Buffeb Valley River. Burchell, 2793 ! Giaaft Keinec u , 

 Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 36 ! Compass Berg, Shaw. Schinz, 24 ! 



Western Region: Great Namaqualand ; Little *i^n^ - ^^^^^ _, ^^^j^^^ 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ! Sand Kiver ' ^^^jj^^^.^u^n , 



1274! near Zaai Hoek, Thode ! '^^^''J'^'^^^'''i2^ann 6628! 

 Transvaal; between Porter and Trigaixls Fonteu.Ke^«u^i«,^b^^ 



Eastern Region: Griqualand East; Vaal Bank, Hay^art a 

 4227 I 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



5. L.grandiflora (Benth. in DC. ^^^^r. x. 427) , a marsW 

 floating Serb, apparently annual, e-pitose wi h o w.thou^^stol^ 

 loot fibrous; leaves radical and crowded or i» ^^^ ^ ^j on 

 plant cauline and alternate, erect or suberec or the blade ^,^ ^^ 



long petioles ; blade oval or oblong, rounded a the apex, _^ ^^^^^^ _ 

 wedge-shaped at the base, entire, ^-^^^ or^'p^duncles radical 

 petioles A_5 in. long, robust or slender , scapes V ^^ ^^^^^^ 



or axillary, moderately robust or slender, a^°"" JJ ^^^° short, erect 

 than the leaves, up to 3i in. long, or in ^^^^f^^^i.te-funnei-shaped, 

 or ascending o^i^ fruit curving ; calyx ^ J^^^ ^^^^^^^ triangular 



H in. long, shortly 5-lobed, ^'^-^^.'^X:Zl^^^^^ 

 pointed; corolla-tube about equalling tne ca.y_^ -"n diam. ; lobes 

 patent, regular, white or lilac, h^^'^y;"XLus'; filaments inserted 

 obovate-rounded, entire ; stamens % o^* , y^^ shortly 



^vithin the throat of the corolla, short; anthers pale 



