﻿Gharadrophila.'] sceophulariace^ (Hiern). 371 



flowers handsome, about | in. long ; calyx ^- in. long, pubescent, 

 ebracteolate ; lobes obtuse, about -| in. long ; corolla blue ; tube 

 ■f in. long, f in. broad, white within; lobes about Ir in. long; 

 tilaments glabrous, rather more than \ in. loug ; anthers glabrous, 

 xV in. long ; style f in. long, glabrous except at the finely pilose 

 base, curved near the apex ; ovary pilose, } in. long ; capsule about 

 i in. long. 



Coast Region : Stellenbosch Div. ; in moist shady rocky clefts, by water- 

 falls at Jonkers Hoek, near Stellenboscb, 820 ft., Marlofh, 2311. 



XXXV. MELASMA, Berg. 



Calyx foliaceous or subfoliaceous, loosely carapanulate ; tube 

 angular or strongly nerved, shortly 5-cleft, sometimes inflated in 

 fruit; teeth deltoid or lanceolate, valvate in bud. Corolla-tube 

 broad, campanulate, subglobose or somewhat funnel-shaped, equalling 

 or exceeding the calyx ; limb veined, 5-cleft, oblique or bilabiate ; 

 lobes broad, entire, rounded, imbricate in bud. Stamens usually 

 4, didynamous or nearly equal ; filaments filiform, inserted about or 

 below the middle of the corolla- tube, glabrous or the longer bearded ; 

 anthers 2-celled, approximated by pairs, naked or bearded on the 

 back, all perfect ; cells oblong, nearly parallel, distinct, equal or 

 somewhat unequal, blunt, apiculate or mucronate at the lower end. 

 Ovary round, 2-celled ; style longer than the stamens, bent down- 

 wards or curved near the apex ; stigma narrowly linguiform, entire 

 or bifid. Capsule subglobose, included within the calyx, glabrous, 

 loculicidal ; valves usually entire. Seeds very numerous, sublinear ; 

 testa loose. 



Herbs, usually annual and parasitical, turning dusky when dried, simple or 

 branched, often hispid or scabrid ; leaves opposite or scattered, sometimes scale- 

 like, dentate or entire, sessile or subsessile; flowers numerous, racemose or 

 spicnte, mostly yellow or orange and often brown or purple on the veins; pedicels 

 bibracteolate. 



DiSTRiB, Species about 24, occurring in the hotter parts of the world. 



Flowers racemose, U-2 iu. long (1) scabrnm. 



Flowers subspicate, J-1 in. long : 

 Flowers f-1 in. long : 



Anther-cells obtuse at the lower end ... (2) capense. 



Anther-cells mucronate at the lower 



eud (3) barbatum. 



Flowers ^-| in. long : 



Stamens didynamous : 



The longer pair of filaments more 



or less hairy ffi '"^l-HflArn™ 



Filaments glabrous or nearly so ... (5) sessiliflornm. 



Stamens nearly equal : 



Anther-cells obtusely apiculate at 

 the lower end : 



Flowers about i in. long; . .,„_ 



fruit oval, i in. long ... (6) Inndum. 



B b 2 



