﻿364 sCKOrHULAEiACE^ (Hiern). [Ilysanthes. 



Flowers subsessile or very shortly peduncu- 

 late : 



Staniinodes wanting ; flowers solitary in 



each axil (3) Schlechteri. 



Staminodes 2 ; flowers 1-3 together in 



the axils (4) nana. 



Flowers evidently pedunculate : 



Corolla-tube i in. long (5) Muddii. 



Corolla-tube | in. long: 



Leaves 1-1 in. long (6) WUmsii. 



Leaves J-4 in. long (7) Bolusii. 



1. I. riparia (Eafin. Annals of Nature, 13) ; an annual herb, 

 diffuse, decumbent or erect, divaricately branched, glabrous, some- 

 what glossy, 3-12 in. high ; stems quadrangular, often rooting at 

 the lower nodes ; leaves oval, ovate-oblong, ovate or lanceolate, 

 obtuse or pointed, obtuse or somewhat narrowed at the base, sessile 

 or the lower subsessile, 5- or 3-nerved, subentire or remotely denticu- 

 late, ^-1-J- in. long, y\-| in. broad ; flowers axillary, solitary, -|r-| m. 

 long ; peduncles slender, lax, i-l in. long ; calyx -segments narrowly 

 lanceolate-subulate, ^-\ in. long ; corolla pale blue ; lower lip white 

 on the margins ; palate marked with two blue spots ; staminodes 

 tuberculate, adnate to the corolla-tube at the base, free above, with 

 a small appendage or tooth below the apex or near the middle ; 

 ovary ovoid, ^-} in. long ; capsules |— J in. long. Capraria gratio- 

 loides, Limi. Syst. ed. x. 1117. Lindernia capensu, Thunb. Prooir. 

 104, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 480 ; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. i. 

 254; Harv. in Hook. Tc. PI. t. 151 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 833. 

 Bonnaya brachycarpa, Cham. ^ Schlecht. in Linncea, ii. 568. 

 J. capensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 419. /. grafioloides, Benth. 

 I.e. ; Urban in Bericld. Deutscli. Bot. Ges. ii. 434. /. (jratiolodes, 

 var. capensis, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 235. Gratiola duUa, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 17. /. duhia, Bamliart in Bull. Torreij Bot. 

 Club, xxvi. 376. 



Coast Region, ascending from 50 to 200J ft., in wet places : Tulbagh Div- ; 

 by Tulbagh waterfall, Ecklon &• Zeyher ! Pappc ! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloot, 

 nrigc, 1940a, ! Bainskloof, SchlecMcr, 10249 1 Paarl Div. ; by the Berg River, 

 Brege, 19406 ! Klein Draakenstein Mountains and Dal Josaphat, Drege. Cape 

 Div. ; near Capetown, Burchell, 679 ! Harvey, 400 ! Schlechter, 31 ! Knysua 

 Div. ; Vlugt, Bolus, 1519 ! Humausdorp Div. ; bv the Kromme River, Thuiiherg ■ 

 Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops River, Zerjher, 37 ! 3491 ! Loeri (Luris) Eivcr, 

 Thunherg ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Krakakamma, Burchell, 4560 ! Bathurst Div. ; 

 between Theopolis and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3915! 4050! Albany Div. ; 

 Uowisons Poort, Hutton ! near Grahamstown, MacOxvan, 1470! Glass in 

 MacOwan Herh. Austro-Afr., 1933! King VVilliamstown ; Perie Wood, 

 Kuntze. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal : between Spitzkop and the Komati River, 

 Wilms, 1045 ! 



Easxebn Region, ascends to 30C0 ft. : Transkei ; in a valley by the Kei 

 River, Drege, 4023! Bashee River, Dre^e. Pondoland, Bachmaim, 1245! Natal; 

 between Umzimkulu River and Umkomanzi River, Drege .' Umlaas River, Krauss, 

 109 ! Umzinyati Flat, Wood, 1376 ! Pietermaritzburg, Rehmann, 7537 ! S^'*''^^"; 

 land.! Sanderson, 80! Pinetown, Sanderson, 662! Inaada, Wood, 1617- 

 Durbati Bay, Drege. 



Also in America. 



