﻿Buttonia.'] scrophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 385 



1. B. natalensis (McKen ex Benth. in Hook. Ic. PJ. xi. 63, t. 



1080); suif ruticose ; stems pubescent above with short pallid hairs, 

 glabrous below, somewhat woody or wiry, herbaceous towards the 

 end, rambling or climbling, moderately leafy, apparently several feet 

 long; leaves opposite, sparingly pinnatisect or pinnatifid, toughly 

 herbaceous, scabrid-puberulous, turning dusky when dried, 1^-3 in, 

 long, including the petiole, |— 1^ in. broad; lower pinnae opposite, 

 ovate or oval, obtuse, sparingly-toothed or incise, narrowed or quasi- 

 petiolulate at the base, i-|- in. long, ^— i- in. broad ; upper pinnae 

 smaller ; petioles f-l^ in. long ; flowers axillary or rather supra- 

 axillary, solitary, violet-scented, about l^- in. long; peduncles robust, 

 spreading, ^-1 in. long; bracteoles 2, opposite, suborbicular, 

 i-^ ill. in diam., sessile at the base of the calyx, glabrous or 

 minutely sessile-glandular; calyx campanulate or urceolate, pale 

 green, -^-|^ in. long in flower, f-f in. long in fruit, f-f in. broad in 

 flower, 10-nerved, net- veined, minutely puberulous or glabrous, 

 shortly 4- or 5-lobed ; lobes depressed -ovate, i-|- in. long, i-i in, 

 broad ; corolla rosy, glabrous, thin ; tube broadly funnel-shaped, 

 somewhat ventricose, curving upwards, about 1^ in. long; throat 

 dark-rosy ; limb spreading-recurving, 1^-2^ in. in diam. ; lobes 

 1-f in. long, |-li in. broad ; stamens glabrous ; filaments |-|- in, 

 long, flexuous ; anthers 2-celled, polliniferous cells about i in, long, 

 empty ones of the shorter stamens about -} in. long and flexuous ; 

 style exserted, glabrous ; capsule about |- in. in diam. ; seeds y^— J- in. 

 long. Sdiinz ^ Junod iti Mem. Herb. Boiss. x. 62, 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Pine Town, Button ! McKen, 1 ! 2 ! Umzmyati 

 Falls, Wood, 1225 I Rooi Koppies, Wood, 1016 ! Zululand ; near Pongolo River, 

 Saunders ! Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro ! 



XXXIX. SOPUBIA, Hamilt. 



Calyx campanulate or hemispherical, 4- or 5-cleft ; lobes valvate 

 in bud. Corolla-tube short, rather narrow, widened at the throat ; 

 limb wide, patent, 5-lobed, bilabiate ; posterior lip 2-lobed, interior ; 

 upper lip S-lobed with the lobes often rather highly connate. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, shortly exserted or nearly included; 

 filaments filiform, somewhat compressed, inserted on the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers cohering in pairs or all together, 2-celled, one cell 

 ovate or oblong, blunt and perfect, the other empty, small and 

 stipitate. Ovary 2-celIed ; ovules numerous; style filiform, 

 exserted, recurved above ; stigma somewhat thickened, Imguiform 

 or sublanceolate. Capsule ovoid or oblong, rounded or compressed 

 at the apex, retuse or emarginate, loculicidal. Seeds numerous, 

 obovoid or oblong ; testa somewhat louse. 



Erect branched rigid berb., usually turning dusky in drying "cept the hoary- 

 to.nentose species; leaves alternate, opposite «' ^^yt'""«te narrow oicu uto 

 narrow segments ; flowers racemose or spicate, solitary m tHe axus or oracts, 

 Iiibracteolate. 



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