﻿370 sCROPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). [Glnmicalyx. 



the upper half, -^-f in. long, i-|- in. broad, erect-patent ; flowers 

 sessile, numerous, about ^ in. long, crowded in a terminal head ; 

 heads about f in. long and broad ; bracts roundly obovate, oval, 

 glumaceous, ciliolate, sessile, shining, concave at first, at length 

 nearly flat, ^r-\ in. long ; calyx-segments -} in. long, minutely 

 glandular-cilio'late about the apex ; corolla l—^ in. long, glabrous ; 

 tube -i— I in. long; lobes xV-tV i"- long 5 filaments re-To.i'^- 

 long besides the adhering parts ; anthers xV~rV ^^- l^^S 5 pistil 

 nearly } in, long, glabrous ; ovary oval, obtuse, somewhat com- 

 pressed, jV in. long, 2V in. broad ; style about -l- in. long. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; on the slopes of Monfc-aux- 

 Sources, 7000-8000 ft., Flanagan, 2018 ! 



XXXIV. CHARADEOPHILA, Marlotb. 



Calyx deeply 5 -cleft, persistent ; lobes ovate- oblong, nearly equal. 

 Corolla rather large ; tube short, subcampanulate, dilated at the top, 

 incurved-ascending ; throat bearded behind ; limb bilabiate ; lobes 

 broad, spreading, nearly equal ; posterior lip bilobed, one of the 

 lobes interior and the other exterior or very rarely partly interior ; 

 anterior lip trilobed, the middle lobe exterior. Stamens 4, nearly 

 equal, sometimes with a fifth reduced to a staminode or rarely 

 perfect ; filaments rather short, curved, inserted about the base of 

 the corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled, shortly oval ; cells diverging or 

 nearly parallel. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled from the base to the apex ; 

 style filiform, exceeding the stamens, shortly exserted, quite entire, 

 persistent ; ovules numerous ; placentas axile on the septum. 

 Capsule ovoid, somewhat compressed, bisulcate, apiculate or acumi- 

 nate, both loculicidal and septicidal ; valves sometimes cohering at 

 the apex. Seeds rather numerous, ovoid, rugose, black. 



A branched or subacaulescent herb with radical and cauline opposite petiolate 

 leaves and centripetal inflorescence. 



DiSTEiB. Monotypic, endemic. 



According to Marloth in Engl. Jahrh. xxvi. 359, the genus has a typically 

 Scrophulariaceous capsule, though Engler in spite of this character regarded it 

 as Gesneraceous ; K. Schumann in Just, Bot. JahreshericU, xxvii. 1. ^'^^> 

 enumerates it among the genera of the former Order. 



1. C. capensis (Marloth in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 358, t. 8) ; root 

 branched, fibrous ; stem short, not much branched, about 3 in. high 

 or scarcely any ; radical leaves patent, on long petioles ; stem-leaves 

 opposite, oval, rounded, obtusely narrowed or somewhat wedge- 

 shaped at the base, broadly crenate, very shortly pubescent and 

 velvety, 2-2^ in. long, l-lf in. broad ; petioles f-l^l in- long > 

 peduncles axillary, 1-flowered or bearing 3-5 -flowered cymes, 

 recurved after flowering, i-1 in. long ; bracts opposite or alternate, 

 oblong, obtuse, sessile, about ^ in. long ; pedicels |-| in- long ; 



