﻿,386 scKOPHULARiACEj; (Hiern). [Sopuhia, 



DiSTBiB. species about 20, distributed over Africa, Madagascar, and India. 



Calyx 5-lobed : 



Leaves usually entire and undivided : 



Nearly glabrous or papillose-scabrid, not 



hoary (1) simplex. 



Hoary felted at least on the inflorescence... (2) cana. 

 Leaves (at least the lower) once or twice tri- 

 partite : 



Calyx cottony-pilose outside (3) fastigiata. 



Calyx glabrous outside or nearly so ... (4) trifida. 

 Calyx 4.1obed (5) Eenii. 



1/ 1. S. simplex (Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 27) ; a rigid herb, annual 

 or biennial or sometimes persistent for several years, papillose-scabrid 

 or nearly glabrous ; rootstock more or less woody, branched ; stems 

 several, erect, virgate or fastigiate, 1-2 ft. high, leafy, furrowed ; 

 leaves alternate or ternate, narrowly linear or subulate, simple or 

 rarely the lower trifid, pointed, not much narrowed at the base, 

 sessile, entire, warted on the margin with small whitish lenticular or 

 oval tubercles, |-2 in. long, ^VtV i"* broad ; flowers numerous, 

 ^-f in. in diam. ; racemes rather dense at the top, elongating, 

 centripetal, laxer below ; pedicels up to ^-f in. long, bibracteolate 

 above the middle ; bracteoles subulate, yV"^ in. long ; calyx herai- 

 spherical-campanulate, |^-|^in. long, .5-lobed, papillose-scabrid outside ; 

 lobes deltoid, white-cottony within, tV~ tV i^- long; corolla sub- 

 rotate, pink, rosy or purplish, |— | in. in diam. ; stamens and style 

 somewhat exserted; capsules spheroidal-oblong, about \ in. long. 

 Biern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 773. S. dregeana, Benth. in JDV. 

 Prodr. X. 522. Raphidophyllum simplex, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 

 667 ; Hochst. 8f Krauss in Flora, 1844, 832. Gerardia dregeana, 

 Bmth. in Drege, Cat. PI. Ejcdcc. Afr. Austr. 4, and ex Hochst. in 

 Flora, 1842, 240, and Zicei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, Wi, 14!^, 

 151, 187. Gerdaria dregeana, Presl, Bat. Bemerk. 91. 



Coast Eegion, ascending to 2000 ft. : Knysna Div. ; Zitzikamma *'<''"^^*' 

 Krauss ! Uitenhasre Div. ; near Uitenhage, Ecklon ! between Galgebosh and MilK 

 River, Burchell, 4787 ! at the foot of Witteklip, MacOwan, 512 ! 1934 ! Komgha 

 Div. ; between Zaudplaat and Komgha, Drege, 4850ci ! near Koingha, Flanagan, 

 652 ! British Kaflfravia ; Cooper, 137 ! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2871 ! Besters Vley, near 

 Witzies Hopk, 510J ft.. Bolus, 8232 ! Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, Burke, 3-5 . 



Easteen Region, ascending to 5000 ft. : Pondoland ; between Utntata River aaa 

 Umtsikaba River, Drege, 48506 ! 4850c ! Natal ; by streams on Table MonntaiD, 

 Krauss, 400 ! Inanda, Wood, 166 ! 383 ! Plant, 35 ! and without precise locality, 

 Oueinzius, 387! 493! Sanderson, 365! Gerrard, 631! 776! Tembuland; 

 Umnyolo, Bazeia, Baur, 743 ! near Cala, Xalanga district, Bolus ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



V 2. S. cana (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 29, t. 146) ; usually all parj^ 

 except the flowers and capsules densely clothed with short white 

 felt ; stems shrubby at the base, rigidly herbaceous above, branchea 

 near the top, erect, |-lift. high ; branches strict, erect or ascending, 

 virgate, leafy; leaves closely set, scattered or fasciculate, narrovviy 

 linear, obtuse, sessile, entire, l-nerved, \-l\ in. long, uW* ^°' 



