﻿374 SCROPHULARIACEJ; (Hiern). [Melasma. 



East, BowUer ! by the Great and Little J'ish Eiver?, Drege ! Graaff Reinet Div. ; 

 mountaius near Giaafi Reinet, Bolus, 336 ! Aliwal North Div. ; Witte Bergen, 

 Brege. Albert Div. ; by the Orange River, BurTce ! Colesberg Div. ; Colesberg, 

 Shaw .' 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Pere Kop, Rehmann, 6840! Lydeuburg 

 district, near Kuilen, Wilms, 1092! Houtbosch Mountains, Schlechter, 

 4458! 



Eastern Resion, between 5000 and 7000 ft. : Natal; near the Rovelo Hills, 

 Sutherland! near Charlestown, Wood, 5618! at or near Krantz Kop, McKen, 

 15! 



Orohanche capensis, Burm. fil. Frodr. Cap. 17, may possibly be this plant ; 

 it is described as having a very long inflexed scape and exserted stamens ; it is 

 apparently a different plant from 0. cajpensis, TMmb. 



3. M. barbatum (Hiern); an erect herb, dusky when dried, 

 annual, simple below, divided above, about 15 in. high, apparently 

 parasitical ; stem tetragonal, hispid-scabrid, leafy ; branches ascend- 

 ing; leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, ovate, narrowed to a 

 scarcely acute tip, obtusely wedge-shaped at the sessile 5-nerved 

 base, toothed chiefly about and below the middle, hispid-scabrous 

 above, less so beneath, erect-patent or spreading, ^-l^- in. long by 

 l-l in. broad or the lower smaller ; each tooth subglandular at the 

 tip; flowers axillary to the upper leaves, forming terminal leafy 

 spikes, subsessile, rather numerous, about f-| in. long ; spikes 

 2-2i in. long, dense above, interrupted below ; bracteoles narrow, 

 linear-subulate, ciliate, |— f in. long ; calyx about f— | in. long, 

 5-cleft ; tube hispid on the nerves ; lobes acuminate from an ovate 

 base, ciliate ; corolla veined, orange-yellow ; tube exceeding the 

 calyx ; longer filaments bearded ; anther-cells mucronate at the 

 lower end. 



Kalahari Region; Transvaal; Bearded-man Mountain, Barberton, 4500 ft., 

 Galpin, 929 ! 



4. M. indicum (Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam.iv.3B, 91) ; 

 an erect herb, simple or branched above, scaberulous, annual, dusky 

 when dried, 5-15 in. high ; stem and branches hispid with whitish 

 spreading hairs, leafy, tetragonal, 5 leaves opposite or subopposite, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, shortly Avedge-shaped or 

 subtruncate at the sessile or subsessile base, toothed chiefly along the 

 lower half, scabrid above, hispidulous or nearly glabrous beneath, 

 sub-5-nerved, -}-! in. long by i— ^^ in. broad or the lowest smaller ; 

 each tooth subglandular at the tip ; flowers in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, forming terminal leafy or bracteate spikes, numerous, sub- 

 sessile, -}— 1 in. long; spikes dense above, 1-2^ in. long; bracts or 

 floral leaves mostly |-s. in. long ; bracteoles sublinear or subulate, 

 i-1 in. long, hispid-ciliate ; calyx loosely campanulate, more or less 

 hispid-pubescent, J-^ in. long, 5-cleft, bibraeteolate ; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate ; corolla yellow, veined ; stamens didynamous ; longer 

 filaments bearded with long hairs at least at their apex about the 

 insertion of the anthers; anther-cells apiculate at the lower end; 

 style elongated, the oblong-lingulate stigma bent downwards. 



