﻿iie/asma.] sceophulaeiacba; (Hiern). 375 



Hymenospermum dentatum, Benth. in Wall. Gat. n. 3963. Glosso- 

 stylis aveusis, Benth. Sci^oph. Ind. 49. Alectra indica, Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 339 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 297. A. dcntaia, 0. 

 Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL ii. 458. Nigrina sessiliflora, 0. Kuntze, 

 I.e. iii. ii. ^Zl, partly. Melasma dentatum, K. Schum. in Just, Bat. 

 Jahresber. xxvi. i. 394. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; between Porter and Trigards Pontein, 

 Behmann, 6617! without precise locality, Mrs. Siainhank in Herb. Wood, 

 3660! 



Eastebn Region: Natal; Biggars Berg, Rehmann, 7056! Mooi River and 

 Glencoe, Kuntze. 



Also in India and Tropical Africa. Our forms are lesa hairy and the corolla 

 often attains a larger size than in the Indian type. 



5. M. sessiliflorum (Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 767); an 

 erect herb, simple or loosely branched, glandular-hispid or nearly 

 glabrous, annual, deep green in the living state, dusky when dry, 

 2-24 in. high or more, subparasitical; root saffron -yellow ; stem or 

 branches leafy, tetragonal; leaves triangular-ovate or lanceolate, 

 obtuse, acute or acuminate at the apex, subtruncate or abruptly 

 narrowed at the sessile or subsessile base, scabrid, rather thick, 

 brittle, more or less coarsely toothed or denticulate or incise-dentate, 

 sub.5-nerved, opposite, subopposite or alternate, mostly exceeding 

 the internodes but sometimes shorter, i-l^ in. long, ^-f in. broad ; 

 flowers axillary or spicate, subsessile, usually numerous, about J in. 

 long; spikes terminal; bracts sublinear or subulate, glabrous or 

 ciliate, about -\-^ in. long; calyx about ■} in. long, 5-cleft, campanu- 

 late, sparingly 'pilose outside, glabrous within ; tube tetragonal, 

 bibracteolate at the base ; lobes lanceolate, ovate-acummate or sub- 

 deltoid, acute, ciliate, about i in. long; corolla galeate-bilabiate, 

 veined, bright golden-yellow or dull yellowish, red on the nerves, 

 5-cleft, glabrous; lobes obtuse, 3 lower larger than the others; 

 stamens 4, didynamous or rarely 5 with the fifth shorter than 

 the rest, glabrous or nearly so, the longer about equalhng the 

 corolla-tube ; anther-cells usually apiculate at the lovver end ; ovary 

 glabrous; style exceeding the stamens, somewhat thickened and bent 

 above; stigma recurved, lingulate-oblong, somewhat flattened; 

 capsules ovoid or subglobose, about 1 in. long ; seeds numerous. 

 Gerardia sessiliflora, Vahl, Symb. But. ^■J\J^'"^'f'f'Z^^ 

 Thunb. Prodr. \s, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schdt. 458. ^''^^^ r^; 

 Spreng. Sust Yeg. ii. 773. Glossostylis ^«i^/««S ^ zL; pZV 

 Ind. 50, Ll in HooTc. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 212 ; Drege, Zwei Pflan- 

 ^engeogr. Documente, 72, 106, 128, 151, .1^\'/™ m it,!' 

 1844. 832; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. P\'\;- :^^}-,/^T^^^^^^^^ 

 pyroides, Benth. in DC Prodr. x. 339 ; ^«;;'^^^.,^" f "^^^^''i^- 

 254, not of O. Kuntze. A. sessiliflora, 0. Kuntze, Bev Gen. 

 ^l. ii. 458. Nigrina sessiliflora, 0. Kuntze, U. m. n. -37, 

 partli/. 



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