﻿376 SCEOPHDLAEIACEJ] (Hiei'ii). [3Ielasma. 



TulbaghDiv. ; by Tulbagh Waterfall, Ec/lZoji S" '^ey^ter, 431! TulbagU Kloof, 

 Krauss ! Worcester Dlv. ; Hex River Mountaius, Ee7tinan)i, 2698 ! PaarlDiv. ; 

 Dnikensteiii Mountains, L'oZiw, 4063 ! Knysna Div. ; Zitzikamaia Forest, Krams, 

 __164l. Cape Div. ; hills and fiats near Capetown, Thunberg .' Bowie ! EcUon ,f 

 Zeyher,im\ TFoZ?cy Dod, 418 ! Bo h(s, 3806 ! Harvey, 212\ 523! Dreje, 130a ! 

 Kuntze, Bunhury, 152 ! Uiteubage Div. ; between Vanstaadens Berg and Bethels- 

 dorp, Dre;7e. Port Eliziibeth Div.; Krakakamma, B ur cliell, i546\ Albany Div.; 

 near Graliamstown, MacOwan, 454! 



Central Kegion : GraafT Reinct Div. ; Portlock, Boivker, 7 ! 



Kalahaki Region : Griquaknd West ; Groot Bootsap, Marloth, 1001. 

 Transvaal; Granite ridges near Barberton, Galpiii, 1302 1 near Lydenburg, 

 Wilms, 1090 ! 



Eastern Region, between 100 and 2500 ft.: Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur, 

 139! Pondoland; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! near St. Johns River, Brege, 

 130rfl Griqualaiid East; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2785! and in MacOinin Si' 

 Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1219! Katal ; near the Unilaas River, KrausSjJM'- Coast- 

 land, Sutlierland ! near Durban, Wood, 142 ! and without precise locahty, 

 Gueinzius, 5121 Cooper, 220d I Gerrard, 291 I 



Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 



There is a dye in the root, given out to spirits of wine ; it resembles gallstone. 

 {Harvey, MS. on back of coloured drawing in Herb. Kew). 



0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 237-238, unites this species with M. 

 indicum, and refers specimens with the leaves narrowed at the base to a form 

 which he calls sulpetiolata ; without examining his specimens it is impossible 

 to assign them with certainty to their proper species. 



6. M. luridum (Hiern) ; an erect herb, strict, simple or somewhat 

 branched, scabrid-hispid, dusky when dry, D-16 in. high, apparently 

 annual ; stems somewhat leafy but less so than in M. sessiliflormi 

 or in M. indicum, tetragonal ; leaves alternate, oval, obtuse^ some- 

 times apiculate or subacuminate, somewhat narrowed towards the 

 base, sessile or subsessile, often shorter than the internodes, i— J in. 

 long, -f\j-i in. broad, entire or nearly so, more or less hispid, feebly 

 5-nerved ; flowers axillary or spicate, numerous, shortly pedicellate 

 or subsessile, about i in. long ; spikes dense at the apex, more or 

 less interrupted below, 3-7 in. long ; bracteoles elliptic-hnear, 

 ciliate, about -^ in. long ; pedicels up to } in. long ; calyx loosely 

 campanulate, about ^ in. long, hispid-pubescent on the nerves, 

 shortly 5-cleft ; lobes deltoid, about -^\ in. long, not acuminate; 

 corolla veined ; stamens glabrous, 4, nearly equal ; filaments filiform, 

 about I in. long, inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube and 

 reaching its top; anthers pallid, oval; cells Jj or ^V i"- ^°"P' 

 obtusely apiculate at the lower end; style arching below the 

 elongated-lingulate stigma; capsule oval, glabrous, -l in. long- 

 Alectra lurida, Harv. Gen. S. Afr. I'l. ed. i. 260; Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 339. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher, 1311 ! 



Coast Region: Cape Div.; about Wynberg, Survey, 267! TraHtc/i-' "ii 

 rocks at the top of Table Mountain, 3300 'ft., Schlechter, 52 (in Uerh.Boln-h 

 7122) ! old road to Constantia, Wolley Bod, 1521 ! 



^ 7. M. orobanchoides (Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359) ; a puberulous 

 /herb, eiect or ascending, more or less branched from the base 



