﻿Tlysanthe!^.] scrophdlariace^ (Hiern). 367 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Hells Gate, on the road towards Spitzkop, 

 Wilms, 900 ! 



Nearly related to I. Welwitscliii, Engl., but differs by tbe somewhat more 

 leafy and plainly tetragonous stem, by the acute calyx-teeth, and by the shorter 

 upper lip of the corolla. 



7. I. Bolusii (Hiern) ; an erect herb, l|-2 in. high, minutely 

 glandular-puberuious, simple or branched and leafy at the base ; stems 

 or branches erect or ascending, sparingly leafy above the base, tetra- 

 gonous ; radical leaves rosulate, obovate or narrowly elliptical, 

 obtuse, narrowed towards the shortly petiolate base, entire or repand, 

 rather thick, i-i in. long, i\-^ in, broad ; petioles short, broad ; 

 stem-leaves opposite, oblong or sublanceolate, obtuse, somewhat 

 narrowed at the sessile connate base, rather thick, very nearly 

 glabrous above, minutely glandular-puberulent beneath, entire or 

 repand, -}~^ in. long, aV-yV i°- broad ; flowers axillary, alternate, 

 about } in. long, solitary; peduncles yV-i in. long; calyx |-i in. 

 long, 5-dentate, not strongly ribbed ; teeth subdeltoid, acute or 

 apiculate, about J^j in. long ; corolla-tube about as long as the calyx ; 

 stamens 2, antheriferous, glabrous ; filaments short ; capsules oblong, 

 narrowed towards each end, about ^ in, long ; seeds about as broad 

 as long, minutely tuberculate along parallel straight lines. 



Kaiahari Region : Transvaal ; Kamakopa, 4000 ft., ScKiechter, 4503! 



XXXII. VERONICA, Tournef. 



Calyx usually 4-partite ; segments scarcely imbricate in bud. 

 Corolla usually subrotate ; tube very short ; limb spreading, 4- or 

 5-cleft ; lateral lobe or lobes exterior in bud. Stamens 2, inserted on 

 the corolla-tube on the sides of the posterior lobes, exserted ; anthers 

 2-celled; cells obtuse, confluent at the apex. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style entire, stigmatose at the subcapitate apex ; ovules few or 

 numerous. Capsules loculicidal or septicidal, bivalved, bisulcate. 

 Seeds few or numerous, ovoid or orbicular. 



Herbs or shrubs; leaves usually opposite; flowers racemose or axillary and 

 solitary. 



DiSTRiB. Species more that 200, abounding chiefly in temperate regions. 



In addition in fl,P «np,.!«s described below, Veronica officinalis, Linn., has been 



. p. xin. ; 

 , agrestic. 



■ ■ -^ctit^viuuiu a, liinn., near urnaii xvciijcu, .^.." ^-..--, , . . , . . • „ ;„ „„„ 

 Linn., occurs as a casual {WoUcm Dod, ms.) ; and f^ Kf'''^"%l'Zr}lm 

 tioned by Thomas R. Sim, Sketch and Chech-List of the Flora of Kaffrana, 60. 



Flowers racemose ; leaves sessile \^ Tnn^«fnrtii 



Flowers axillary, solitary ; leaves petiolate (2) Tourneiorui. 



1. V. Anagallis (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 12); an erect herb, 

 glandular-puberuious or very nearly glabrous,^ somewhat shimng 

 usually branched about the base and perennial, b-.JO m. mgn j lower 



