﻿372 scROPHULARiACE;Ti: (Hiern). [Melasma. 



Flowers J-| in. long ; fruit 



subglobose, J-i in. long ... (7) orobanclioides. 

 Anther-cells not apiculate at the 

 lower end, obtuse (8) natalense. 



> 1. M. scabrum (Berg. P]. Cap. 162, t. 3, fig. 4) ; a herb, scabrid 



/ with short rough dots, dusky or brown when dried, erect, diffuse or 



ascending, nearly simple or more or less branched, |-2|^ ft. high, 



apparently perennial ; root fibrous, saffron-coloured ; stems erect or 



diffuse, viscid-scabrid, leafy ; leaves opposite, mostly lanceolate or 



narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute, somewhat or scarcely narrowed 



at the base, sessile or subsessile, deep green above, rather paler 



beneath, dentate or subentire, often more strongly toothed or shortly 



lobed near the base, -}-3 in. long, ^\-l in. broad ; flowers l\-2 m. 



long, racemose, rather numerous ; racemes terminating the stems 



and branches, up to 4-8 in. long, lax or rather dense; pedicels 



i-4 in. long ; bracts opposite, narrow, neither adhering nor adjacent 



to the calyx, -^— |- in. long ; calyx campanulate-oblong, f-1 in- lo^g 



in flower; tube 10-nerved and"5-angled in flower, veined, loose m 



flower, inflated in fruit, somewhat unequal and indented at the 



insertion of the pedicel ; teeth 5, deltoid, nearly equal, apiculate, 



i-i in. long; corolla white, brown or pale yellow ; tube purple on 



both sides or red, smooth, nearly glabrous, campanulate-oblong, 



f-li in. long ; throat dull or dusky purple or brown ; lobes 5, rounded, 



veined, nearly glabrous, i-i in. in diam., yellowish-white, two ot 



them more or less connate; stamens included; anthers 2-cellea, 



cells acute at the base, dusky (Masson's drawing), about ■} in- long , 



filaments pubescent; style shortly or scarcely exserted, inflexed above, 



glabrous up to the stigma or nearly so ; capsules glabrous, abon 



i in. long. Krauss in Flora, 1844, 833; £enth. in Hook. Comp- 



Bot. Mag. i. 202, and in DC. Prodr. x. 338. Nifjrina viscosa, Linn. 



Mant. 42 ; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 238. Gerardia mgnna> 



Linn. f. Siippl. 278 ; Thnnh. Prodr. 106, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schilt. 



487. 



Var. )3 : ovatum (Hiern) ; lower leaves ovate, subcordate at the base, J-l^ '"• 

 long. M. ovatum, Benth., I.e. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunherg ! Bergius ! Burmann. 



Coast Eegion, ascending to 3000 ft. r Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, W-^:'_ j 

 1335a ! Cape Div. ; near Cape Town and Constantia, Wolley Dod, 139 : i^o. 



■xiuj. . iviijsua jjiv.; near iiie ji.euruooms xvivcr, xiw; kici,!-, „_.-- i 'cn I 

 Eiver, Krauss, 1620. Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Mountains, Bulu^, WD • 

 Kennedy in Herh. MacOwanJ Port Elizabeth Div.; Krakakamnia, B^i<•c'le ' 

 4542 1 Algoa Bay, Coo'per, 2816 ! Albany Div. ; mountains near Grahamstoi , 

 Glass in MacOwan Herh. Austro-Afric, 1934 ! ^^ (^ 



Ckntkal Region: Somerset Div.; summit of Bosch Berg, 4oW - 

 MacOwan, 197 ! _ -^ 



Kalahari Begion : Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2834! Transvaal; Spi j 



jiAi^Atiani xki-juriuiN : urauge niver uoiony, vooper, ^oo* i -ii""- ' ,nnii 



kop, \VUuis, 1073! Umlomati Valley, near Barberton, Galpin, 1320. l^'*^^ 

 near Lydenburg, Atherston ! Houtboseh, Eehmann, 6005! Steyn, ^^ 

 Johannesliurg, Mrs. K. Saunders, 10 ! VaB. B : Transvaal ; Hells uate, 



