﻿Mekifiiaa.] scEophulariacba: (Hiern). 373 



Eastern Regiox, between 1000 and 6000 ft.: Tembuknd; Bazeia Moun- 

 tain, Bawr, 606! Pondoland ; between St. Johns and Umtsikaba Eivet's, Drege, 

 133oc ! jrrassy places, Bej/rtcA, 38 ! Natal; near Krantz Kop, McKen, 25! 

 Inauda, Wood, 441! Van Reenen, TFoo(J, 6696 ! Mohlamba Range, Sutherland I 

 Krantz Kloof, Kuntze. Durban, Gueinzius, 437 ! 



Var. /8 : Pondoland ; marsh near St. Jolius River, Dreje, 4843 I near a water- 

 fall, Bachmann, 1214! between Umteutu and Uuiziiukulu Rivers, Diege. 

 Zululaud, Gerrard, 1213 ! 



.7 2. M. capense (Hiern) ; an annual herb, parasitic on the roots of 

 grasses or similar plants which it renders tuberous, green isli-dusky or 

 dusky when dried, scentless ; stems erect, with long whitish pubes- 

 cence, simple or branched below, striate, rigid, leafy, 4-14 in. high ; 

 leaves oval, ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate or the narrow ones 

 subacute, somewhat narrowed at the sessile or subsessile sub-3- 

 nerved base, scabrid-hispid at least on the margin and nerves 

 beneath, entire or sparingly toothed, scattered or subopposite, -^—1 in. 

 long, 1—1- in. broad, the lowest smaller and scale-like ; flowers sub- 

 sessile, numerous, or rather few, in the upper axils, orange- or golden- 

 yellow, f-1 in. long ; spikes dense, terminal, 1-3 in. long, 1-1| in. 

 broad ; bracts like the leaves or narrower, ciliate or hispid above ; 

 pedicels i in. long or less ; calyx campanulate, shortly 5-cleft, 

 angular, 10-nerved, delicately veined, a-A in. long, rather broad and 

 loose, somewhat hispid outside, glabrous within, bibracteolate at the 

 base ; lobes triangular-ovate, acute or apiculate, ciliate, I— I in. long ; 

 bracteoles sublinear or narrowly spathulate, pilose on the back, 

 cihate, glabrous and shining within, about i in. long ; corolla yellow, 

 marked with purple or brown stripes, corrugated ; tube glabrous, 

 about as long as the calyx, subcylindrical below, funnel-shaped 

 towards the throat ; limb spreading, about 1 in. in diam. ; lobes 

 obovate, about ^-i in. long, glabrous, clearly nerved and veined ; 

 stamens exserted or nearly so ; 2 of the filaments densely bearded 

 along one side; anthers glabrous, oblong-ovoid, obtuse, yV lo •"• 

 long; style longer than the stamens, glabrous except the glandular 

 apical part, bent over the anthers ; capsule ovoid, about ., in^ 

 long, glabrous. Alectra capensis, Thunb. PL Nov. Gen. 82. ami 

 Prodr. Q7,a7id Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 454; Harv. Gen. b. A/r. ri. 

 ed. i. 250; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 339. Orohanche f^<^!'^'J^- 

 Dietr. Syn. PI. iii. 624. A. major, E. Meyer in BrcQe, Zwei ijian- 

 ^engeogr. Bocumente, 52, 139, 163. A. minor, E. Meyer, I.e. loi, 

 138, 163. 



^ CoA«T Region, ascending fron. 50 to 4000 ft. : ^--"-'^^'" ^j^ ^^^^ 

 Grootvaders Bosch, ^o.aeW Humansdorp Dir. ; "^'^'- ^^'^^^ 'X"' £^^^^ 

 Zeekoe River, Thunberg J Uitenhage Div. ; °t;'^ .'^ » S2 ' A e«ndria 

 Addo, £i%e.'' hills by ?he Zv^artkops River, ^^^'^fJ'^^^ 3522 - Alexandria 



Div.; ZW^t Hoogte,^B.r^-e.' Bathurst Div^ ; "-;^/ ^ b-'" ' <^^^^^^^^^^ 

 Kowie River, Zey^er.' Albany Div. ; near B^^^^X^at River S«<?« / Qneens- 

 own.^/ae0.tw, 540! Fort Beaufort D.v.; near the KatR.ver,^^^^^^^^ ^^ 



town Div. ; near Queenstown, Galpm, lo97 ! KomKha i^'^- - "'^ 

 tteKei River, F/.na,a„. 13441 ^^^^ ''f^Z\ Z^lZt Div.; Somer«el 

 Central Region, between 2000 and 6000 tt.. toomtrse 



