﻿382 sCROPHDLAEiACEiE (Hicrn). [Stnga. 



3. S. elegans (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363) ; an 

 erect herb, hispid-scabrid, grey-green, branched or simple, annual, 

 3-12 in. high, perhaps parasitical; branches erect or ascending, 

 strict, often fastigiate, striate, leafy, angular ; leaves opposite or the 

 upper floral ones alternate, lanceolate-linear, acute or pointed and 

 cartilaginous at the tip, not much narrowed at the sessile base, entire, 

 erect or suberect, i-1 in. long, yVH ^^- 'broad ; internodes mostly 

 shorter than the leaves; flowers spicate, pale pink, white, deep red or 

 bright scarlet, sessile, numerous, i-^ in. long ; spikes terminal, 

 dense, not very slender, elongating ; floral leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acute, scabrid, hispid, \-^ in. long ; bracteoles hnear-subulate, 

 scabrid, hispid, about ^-i in. long, adpressed to the calyx ; calyx 

 narrow, i-i in. long, hispid-scabrid ; tube 1 0-11 -nerved ; lobes o, 

 lanceolate or subulate, ^-i in. long; corolla-tube subcyhndrical, 

 glandular-puberulous outside, finely pilose within, somewhat enlarged 

 and strongly bent near the apex ; limb spreading, i-f in. in diam. ; 

 scarlet or pink above, white beneath ; lobes obovate, |— ^ m. long ; 

 upper lip broad, emarginate, not much shorter than the 3 segments 

 of the lower ; stamens glabrous, inserted above the middle of the 

 corolla-tube. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502 ; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PL iii. ii. 240. Buchnera elegam, D. Dietr. Syn. PI. iii. 525. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher, 3591 ! 



Coast Region, between 500 aud 4000 ft. : Albany DIv. ; Grahamstown, 

 Bolton! MacOwan! Bothas Hill, Bawr, 1089! MacOwan, 426! Queensto\ytt 

 Div. ; hills near the Klipplaats River, Drege, 3591a ! near Queenstown, (jotpm, 

 1763! Mrs. Barber, 615 ! Cathcart Div. ; Ca.thca.rt, Kuntze. Stutterheim Wiv. ; 

 Kabusie Eiver, Murray, 426 ! whp 



Cehtkal Region: Aliwal North Div.; between Kraai River and the Witie 

 Bergen, 4500-5000 ft., Dre^je, 35916 ! Albeit Div., Cooper, 1379 ! , 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Thaba Unchu, Burlce, w . 

 Zeyher, 1278! near Vredefort, Barrett- Hamilton! and without precise locality, 

 2827 I 2828 ! Bechuanaland ; at Hamapery, BurcheU, 2482 ! 2507 ! between 

 Mafekinp and Ramoutsa, Lugard / Transvaal ; near Pretoria, Maclea, UV U 

 Herb. Bnlus, 5745) ! Olifants River, Botsabelo, Nelson, 394 ! between Porter anci 

 Trigardsfontein, ReJimann, 6611! between Trigardsfontein and Stanilertoi, 

 Rehmann, 6741! near Lydeuburg, Wilms, 1228 1 near Bronkhorst Kiver, 

 Wilms, 12286 1 Johannesburg, Rand, 1018! Ommaney, 60! 61! nea 

 Standerton, TF«lms, 1228c! Vretoria,, Kuntze. „. 



Eastern Region, between 500 and 5000 ft. : Transkei ; Tsomo Itiver, 

 Mrs. Barher, 807! Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur, 34! Griqualand Last ; i 

 meadows, Tyson, 1368 ! Natal ; between Mooi River and Estcourt, Wood, coo . 

 3484 ! KHp River, Gerrard cf McKen, 366 ! Colenso, Kuntze. SwazUana , 

 Havelock Concession, Baltmarshe in Herb. Galpin, 1040 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. vi^ 



0. Kuntze, Z.c, gives two varieties of this species : a. coccinea ; '!°'^° ,jj 

 brilliant scarlet with a yellowish tube ; p. alborosea ; corolla white, at leng 



There is considerable variation in the size of the flowers ; the small-flowere 

 form is usually associated in the dry state with a rather dusky foliage. 



4. S. Itttea (Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 22) ; an erect herb, scabrid, 

 hispidulous, grey-green, branched or rarely simple, annual, }^~^^ ^ ' 

 high ; branches ascending, slender, frequently fastigiate, rigid, lea J, 

 angular; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, linear, acute 



