﻿3Ielasma.] sCBorHULABiACEa; (Hiern). 377 



upwards or rarely simple, annual, parasitical, dusky wheu dry, 

 2-24 in. high ; stems and branches angular, smooth or scabrid ; 

 leaves scale-like, opposite, subopposite, alternate or scattered, oval or 

 elliptic, or the upper sublanceolate, mostly obtuse, not much 

 narrowed at the sessile base, scabrid-puberulous, -J-f in. long, 

 i^r-—} in. broad, entire or occasionally sparingly toothed, mostly 

 shorter than the internodes ; flowers spicate and in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, numerous, orange-yellow, very shortly pedicellate, 

 l-l- in. long ; bracteoles narrow, puberulous, l—} in. long ; calyx 

 loosely campanulate, shortly pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 

 5-clef t, -^—1- in. long in flower or rather more in fruit ; lobes deltoid 

 or triangular- ovate, xV^i in. long, not acuminate; corolla veined, 

 orange-red or deep or dull yellow, slightly marbled with brown ; 

 stamens 4, subequal, nearly glabrous or pilose ; anther-cells more or 

 less pointed but not tailed at the lower end ; capsules subglobose, 

 glabrous, |-i. in. in diam, Orobanche jyarviflora, E. Meyer ex Driige, 

 Gat. PI. Exsicc. Afr. Austr. 4, and Zicei Pflanzengeogr. Doeumente, 

 159, 205. Alectra orohanchoides, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 340. 

 Nigrina orohancJwdes, 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI iii. ii. 237. A. 

 pwnila, Benth. I.e. Harveya parvifl&i-a, Steud. Nomend. Bot. ed.n. 

 i. 723 ; Beut. in DC. Prodr. xi. 38. M. parviflorum, K. Schum. m 

 Just, Bot. Jahresher. xxvi. i. 394. Mkro^yphus parmflorus,^ Presl, 

 Bot. Bemerk. 91. Glossostylis parasitica, Hochst. in PI Hchimp. 

 Ahyss. iii. 1464. A. parasitica, A. BicJi. Tent. Fl. Abyss, u. 

 117. Striga orohanchoides. Ind. Kew. ii. 234, not of Benth. 



Central Region: Somerset Div. ; Bowker, 120! Graaff Reinet Div.; near 

 GraafE Reinet, 2600-2800 ft., BurcheU, 2927! Bou-her ! parasitic on roots oi 

 nUus, Bolus, 406 ! Aliwal North Div. : Aliwal North, Kuntze.^ 



Kalahari Eegi on, between 2500 and 4500 ft.: Orange River Colony ; hana 

 lliver, Burhe, 238 ! Thaba Unchu, Burl^c, 414! near BMi^ Flanwjan.Um. 

 Bechuanalaiul ; near the springs at Mafeidng, Bolus, Gim\ Transvaal ; Aapit. 

 Poort, llehmann, 4117! Pretoria, Kuntze ; Rimers Creek, near Harberton, 

 Galpin, 847! near Moord Drift, Schlechter, 4314! near Lydenburg, 11- <!m>, 

 1089! ,, . . 



Eastern Region, ascending to 3000 ft. : Natal; near Dnrban (.««t«.i^>, 

 381! 442! MacKen,9l Sanderson! Dr^ge! Zululand, (^errard 1841. Inanrt., 

 ^^ood, 1240! near Umlaas Drift, TFood .' near Verulam, ^^od }588l bank oi 

 Tugela River near Colenso, Wood, 4412! near Weenen, Wood, 9^» . 



8. M. natalense (Hiern) ; an erect herb, puberulous dusky when 

 arv, simple, about 4 in. high, apparently annual and parasitica; 

 stem angular, clothed more or less closely with leaves especially 

 about the base; leaves scale-like, alternate or subopposite, oval, 

 obtuse, not very much narrowed towards the base, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, entire i--^- in. lona, Jo-i i°- broad ; flowers spicate or he 

 lower 'axiilSy; rather nume;ous, about } in. long, -bsessi le ; jkes 

 dense above, somewhat interrupted telow, ^1 in. long , bnicte^^^^^ 

 linear-lanceolate, x in. long; calyx -} in long, loosely c^^P^^"^^ «' 

 puberulous, shortly .5-cleft ;^obes deltoid abou A i"- ^''''f''Zf^ 

 veined, nearly glabrous ; tube about equalling the ^^1^^ 5 ;'^™ f ^ ^' 

 subequal; filaments filiform, ^ in. long, inserted about the middle of 



