﻿362 sCROPHULARiACE^: (Hieru). [Craterostigma. 



stems rather slender, rigid, scape-like, simple, usually solitary, 

 densely leafy at the base, sparingly leafy above ; radical leaves 

 rosulate, obovate or spathulate, rounded or obtuse, narrowed towards 

 the base, thick, fleshy, glabrous above or nearly so, finely pilose 

 beceath and on the margin, entire, -}-! in. long, |-^ in. broad, 

 not conspicuously nerved ; petioles broad, J.-§ in. long; stem-leaves 

 opposite, few, distant, oblong or oval, obtuse, sessile or subsessile, 

 I-} in. long; flowers several, racemose, 3-16 on the scape, -^— | in. 

 long ; pedicels -J—J- in. long, bracteate at the base, pilose ; bracts 

 like the stem-leaves but rather smaller and alternate ; inflorescence 

 |-6 in. long ; calyx about ^-\ in. long in flower, rather longer in 

 fruit, more or less pilose, turbinate-oblong, shortly 5-toothed ; teeth 

 triangular, pointed, y^e^xV ^"- lo^g ; corolla glabrous outside, 

 pubescent within the throat ; upper lip and bottom of the lower Up 

 white, the rest of the lower lip bright pink with two yellow spots 

 at the base on each side of the middle lobe ; filaments of the anterior 

 stamens much thickened and kneed about the base ; anthers pilose 

 on the edges and back ; capsules oval, somewhat compressed, -3- in. 

 long. C. nanum, var. elatior, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. xv. 63, t. 

 1479. See Wilms in Verhandl. But. Ver. Brandenh. Ix. p. xix. 



Kalahari Region, between 4000 and 6000 ft. : Orange River Colony; 

 Elands River Valley, at the foot of Mont-aux-Sources, Bolus, '8230 ! Transvaal ; 

 at Macmac, MuM I Houtbosch, Behmann, 5979 ! near Douker Hoek, 

 Schlechter, 3712 ! Hells Gate, Wilms, 10i7 ! trip to Johannesburg, Mrs. K. 

 Saunders, 11 ! 



XXX. TORENIA, Linn. 



Calyx tubular ; tube longitudinally ribbed and winged, 5-toothed 

 at the apex, bilabiate. Corolla-tube subcylindrical : limb bilabiate ; 

 posterior lip exterior in bud, erect, concave, bilobed ; anterior lip 

 interior in bud, somewhat spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous, all perfect ; filaments filiform, inserted about the top of 

 the corolla-tube, those of the anterior pair longer than the others, 

 arched, and connivent under the posterior corolla-lip ; anthers closely 

 approximated in pairs, 2-celled; cells diverging and usually confluent 

 at the apex. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, somewhat bilamellate 

 at the apex, the laminae stigmatose on the inner sides; ovules 

 numerous. Capsules oblong or oval, septicidal, 2-valved, not 

 exceeding the slightly enlarged calyx ; valves thin, ^eerfs numerous, 

 minutely tuberculateor rugose. 



Herba with mostly opposite leaves and flowers arranged in terminal racemes. 



DiSTEiB. Species about 20, distributed over the tropical and warmer regions 

 or the world. 



1. T. spicata (Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 502, t. 7, fig. G.-M.) ; an erect 

 herb, glabrous or very nearly so, minutely glandular-papillose, 



