﻿Striga.] scrophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 381 



annual, 2i-18 in. high ; branches ascending, strict, slender, leafy, 

 angular ; leaves linear or lanceolate-linear, acute or subacute, cartila- 

 ginous at the tip, somewhat narrowed at the sessile narrowly decur- 

 rent base, entire, opposite or the upper alternate, i-1 in. long, 

 io~i in- broad, rigid, erect or suberect, often spreading towards the 

 apex ; floral leaves sublanceolate, approximated ; flowers spicate, 

 pink, mauve, purple or red, rather numerous, about i in. long : 

 spikes dense, elongating ; floral leaves exceeding the calyx, adpressed 

 below, recurving or spreading above, hispid-ciliate ; bracteoles shorter 

 than the calyx, narrowly lanceolate, acute, rigid, adpressed, coria- 

 ceous ; calyx strongly 5-ribbed, sessile, coriaceous, hispid-scabrid on 

 the ribs and margin, 5-clef t, about \ in. long ; lobes narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acute, about J in. long ; corolla-tube about } in. long, strongly 

 bent outwards above the middle, narrow and subcylindrical below, 

 obliquely and narrowly funnel-shaped above, shortly glandular- 

 pubescent outside, glabrous inside ; limb bilabiate, spreading ; upper 

 lip obovate, emarginate, about ^ in. long ; lower lip trifid, about 

 \ in. long ; stamens and style included within the corolla-tube, 

 glabrous ; capsules obovoid, glabrous, included within the persistent 

 calyx, about ^^ in. long. Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834 ; Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 502. Buclmera hilaUata, Thunh. Prodr. 100, and Fl. Cap. 

 cl. Sclmlt. 465. B. Thunhergii, D. Dietr. Syn. PI. iii. 525. B. 

 asiatim, Linn. Herh. ex parte, fide Benth. in BO. I.e., not of Linn. 

 Sp. PL ed. i. 630. S. hilahiata, 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 

 240. 



Vak. )3, grandiflora (Bentb. in DC. I.e.); corolla-tube 6-7 Hu. long; lips 

 aVi ii>. long. 



South Africa.- wifcbont locality, T7i«»berp .' OUenhurg,\lGQ\ 



Coast Region, ascending to 3000 ft. : Uiteuhage Div. ; Addo, Drege, 2297a! 

 Vanstadens Berp, Zeylier, 720 ! Bowie ! and without precise locality, Eckhn .' 

 Zeyher, 1277! Albany Div.; Grahamstowu, MacOwan, 11! Bolton! Howisons 

 Poort, Hutton! Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 561! Queenstovvn Div.; near 

 Queenstown, Bowler, 614 I Galpin, 1756! Vae. j3 : Fort Beaufort Div.; Kut 

 Hiver Poort, Drege, 2297i ! 



Central Region, between 3500 and 50OO ft. : Cradock Div. ; Cradock, 

 Cooper, 2830 ! Graaff Reinet Div. ; at Houd Constant Waterfall, Bolus, 1848 ! 

 Aliwal North Div. ; Witte Bergen, Brege, 2297d ! Albert Div. ; Mooi Flaats, 

 I>rige, and without precise localitv, Cooper, 785 ! 



Kalahari Rkgion: Orange River Colony; Wolve Kop, Tbaba Unchu and 

 Caledou River, Burke! Bloemfontein, Kuntze, and without precise locality, 

 Cooper, 2829 ! Basutoland, Cooper, 2832 I Beehuanaland ; near Uamaj^ry 

 Burchell, 2492! between Haniapery and Knegts Fouteiii, Burchell, 2.>4/ 2604! 

 Transvaal ; Johannesburg, Rand, 909! near Lydeuburg, Wtlm^, 1226 ! near 

 Heidelberg, Wilms, 1226d I Kudus Poort, lltihmann, 4^i7 I Pretoria, ]\ilms, 

 1226c! Kuntze. „ ^, , ,, ^ - , , 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; Fakus territory, Sutherland .' Griqualand 

 East ; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2560 ! and in 3IacO,"an J- Bolus, Herb. Norm., 

 894! Natal; Table Mountain, isTrau.., 213 I Atteroha, Sanderson, 42H I Inanda 

 food, 113! Charlestown and Colenso, Kuntze ; near Newcastle, r.hns, 2211 ! 



43! 



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7666! 



>od, 113! Charlestown and Colenso, Kuntze ; near ISewcastlc, trums^zvi. 

 ^fton, flowiek, Mrs. Hutton, 181 ! and without precise ocality, aerrr/rj 

 ! Gueinzius, 48! Zululaud; TFngoya. Wylie in Herh \Vood, .-.7.«» I 

 ndhlwana, Patteshall T/io,nas.' Delagoa Bay; near Komat. Eiver, h-hr-, 



