﻿366 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiem). [Ilysanthes. 



shortly exceeding the calyx ; limb white or white and red or pink ; 

 fertile stamens 2, on short filaments, glabrous ; staminodes 2, filiform 

 or very short, glabrous, without any trace of anthers ; capsules ovoid- 

 f usiform, acute, glabrous, i-| in. long ; seeds longitudinally ridged, 

 numerous, the ridges minutely tubercular. Hiem, Cat. Ap. PI- 

 Welw. i. 764. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal: Houtbosch, Re/uiianw, 6189 ! 



Eastern Region, between 2000 and 5000 ft.: Natal; in crevices of rocks 

 amid masses of SeZa^gtiieHa rwpesim at Urazinyati Falls, IFoocl, 1244! Inaiida, 

 Wood, 885! 1603! slopes of the Drakensberg, Wood, 3914 ! Umlazi, SeUecliter, 

 6734! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



5. I. Muddii (Hiern) ; an erect herb, glabrous or nearly so, simple 

 or branched from the base, 2-3 in. high, with the aspect of a Lobelia ; 

 branches few, opposite or alternate, divaricate or ascending, tetragonous, 

 slender, rigid, moderately leafy, rather shining; leaves opposite, narrowly 

 elliptical or sublinear, somewhat narrowed towards each end, obtuse 

 at the apex, sessile, connate at the base, entire, rather thick, 

 minutely glandular, J^-| in. long, ^^^ in. broad; flowers sub- 

 terminal and solitary in the upper axils, about ■} in. long, rosy and 

 white ; peduncles mostly i-| in. long, alternate, rather slender, rigid ; 

 calyx narrowly turbinate-oblong, broadly ribbed, ^-\ in. long, 

 5-dentate; teeth ovate-deltoid, about ^V i"- long; corolla-tube 

 about i in. long ; lips about ^-i in. long respectively ; filaments ot 

 the pair of perfect stamens short, glabrous; anthers glabrous; 

 staminodes very short, glabrous, without anthers; capsules ovuid- 

 f usiform, glabrous, minutely glandular, i in. long. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal : in damp stony places at Macmac, Mudd ! 



Very like in general appearance to Bonnaya trichotoma, Oliv., but the floweis 

 are larger; it is also somewhat like I. aiidongensis, Hiern, but the calyx 

 longer. 



6. I. Wilmsii (Engl, ex Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xsvi. 123) ; a puny 

 herb, social; root fiorous ; stem slender, tetragonous, slightly scabrid 

 below, glabrous above, 1-2 in. high ; radical leaves several, linear- 

 spathulate, obtuse, attenuate at the shortly petiolate base, about 

 i-^ in. long, minutely puberulous below; stem-leaves opposite, 

 narrowly spathulate, glabrous, entire or repand, J-^ in- lo"g' 

 -3V2V in- broad ; internodes ^-i in. long; peduncles 2 or 3 tiroes as 

 long as the stem-leaves ; calyx narrowly turbinate, about -k's }^' 

 long ; teeth short, acute, pilose at the apex and margins with white 

 hairs, about J^ in. long; corolla-tube about -^- in. long ; upper up 

 very shortly bilobed, nearly Jr in. long ; lower lip 3-lobed, i in. 

 long ; lobes obovate, about equally long, pilose at the base, to ^"' 

 long and broad ; upper stamens reaching the middle of the uppe 

 corolla-lip ; staminodes minute, slightly curved ; ovary oblong, 

 acute, about ^ in. long ; seeds narrowly oval, dusky -brown, marke 

 with longitudinal and weak transverse furrows. 



