﻿368 SCROPHITLARIACE^ (Hiern). [Veronica. 



branches prostrate ; stem succulent, hollow, often rooting at the lower 

 nodes, leafy and often branched above ; leaves opposite, elliptical or 

 somewhat lanceolate, mostly obtuse, cordate-amplexicaul or connate at 

 the base, sessile, serrate or nearly entire, membranous, f-5 in. long, 

 i-li- in, broad; flowers numerous, racemose, about i in. broad; 

 racemes axillary, 2-12 in. long ; pedicels alternate or subopposite, 

 ^i in. long, bracteate at the base ; bracts sublanceolate, about 

 yV*in. longl calyx yV-i in. long ; segments 4, oval-oblong, obtuse 

 or scarcely acute ; corolla blueish-white or blue ; capsules shortly 

 ovoid, about -i in. long, emarginate ; style about half as long as the 

 capsule. Burchell, Trav. S.' Afr. i. 340, ii. 226 ; Thunh. Fl. Cap. 

 ed. SchuU. pp. xiii., xvi. ; Benth. in BO. Prodr. x. 467 ; Krauss in 

 Flora, 1844, 833 ; not of Bong. V. anagalloides, Guss. PI. Bar. 

 5,t.3 ; Benth. I.e. 468. V. AnagalUs, var. aquatiea, Berg. PI. Cap. 2. 

 V. eapensis, Fenzl in Linncea, xvii. 332. " Veronica, like V. seutel- 

 lata," Burch. I.e., i. 426, note. 



Coast Regidit, in streams from 100 to 40O0 ft. : Malmesbury Div. ; Groene 

 Kloof, Wallich! Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 670! about Capetown, 

 Thunherg ! EcUon, 816 ! Kuysna Div. ; Zitzikamma, JCraMss , 1642 . Uitenhage 

 Div.; Zwartkops River, EcHon ^' Zeyher, 73! Alban3-"Div7T~W«ss Boivker ! 

 Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River Valley, Cooper, 250! Queenstown Div.; 

 Engctina, near Shiloti, Baur, 951 ! 



Central Region, between 3000 and 5000 ft. : Graaff Reinet Div. ; near 

 Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 120! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuw Veld, Drtge ! Colesberg 

 Div. ; Colesberg, SJiatu / 



Western Region : Little Namaqualund ; near tlie mouth of the Orange Eiver, 

 Drege ; between Springbok and Modder Fontein, Whitehead! 



Kalahari Region t Orange River Colony ; near Vredofort Road, Barett- 

 Hamilton ! Basutoland, Cooper, 752! Griqnaland West; by the Vaal River, 

 Burchell, 17591"^ I at Griqua Town, Burchell, 1903! Transvaal; Mooi River, 

 Burlel near Pretoria, Wilms, 1105! Matebe Valley, Solub .' Johannesburg, 

 Band, 1015 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; between Gekau (Gcua) River and Bashee Ri^''' 

 Drige! Natal; Upper Tugela Drift, Wood, 3561! and without precise locality, 

 Oerrard, 517 ! 



Cosmopolitan. 



2. V. Toumefortii (K. C. Gmelin, Fl. Bad. i. 39, not of Vill.)j 

 a weak herb, apparently annual ; stems or branches prostrate ana 

 often rooting below, ascending above, moderately leafy, pubescent 

 and minutely glandular, pubescence whitish, not evenly distributed 

 all round the stems and branches ; leaves opposite (except those at 

 the rooting nodes and the floral ones), rotund-ovate, obtuse, abruptly 

 narrowed, subtruneate, subcordate or even subreniform at the petio- 

 late base, thinly herbaceous, minutely glandular and sparingly 

 pubescent on both faces, feebly 5-nerved and few-veined, rather 

 deeply cuneate-serrate, f-J- in. long, -|-J in. broad ; petioles mostly 

 xV-i in. long, pubescent; lower internodes exceeding the leave?, 

 the upper shorter ■ peduncles rather slender, densely pubescent, 

 ^-1 in. long, suberect in flower, spreading in fruit, alternate, solitary 

 in the upper axils ; flowering calyx about i in. long, deeply 4-lobea, 

 rather widely spreading, densely pubescent about the base ; segments 



