﻿Sopuhia.'] scROPHfJLAEiACB^ (Hiern). 387 



broad; flowers _ axillary and subterminal, forming bracteate and 

 leafy terminal simple racemes, numerous, purple or crimson ; pedicels 

 equalling the leaves or shorter ; calyx campanulate, shortly 5-cIeft, 

 I in. long, usually finely tomentose, bibracteate at the base; teeth 

 subdeltoid, somewhat or scarcely acute ; bracts sublinear, about 

 equalling the calyx-tube ; corolla membranous, delicately veined, 

 5-cIeft ; tube very short, about as long as the lobes ; limb subrotate, 

 \~\ in. in diam. ; lobes subequal, rounded, minutely crenulate- 

 undulate ; stamens all alike ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-ceIled, 

 colls diverging ; capsule about equalling the calyx. Hiern, Cat. 

 Afr. PL Welw. i. 774. 



Vae /3. glabrescens (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 123) ; lower part of the 

 stem pubescent, leaves subglabrous, inflorescence hoary piJose with adpressed 

 hairs. 



KAtAHAEi Kegion, between 3000 and 5000 ft. : Orange Eiver Colony ; 

 Besters Vley, near Witzies Hoek, Bolus, 8233 ! and without precise locality. 

 Cooper, 982 ! Transvaal ; Saddleback Range, Gal-pin, 790 ! near Lydenburj^, 

 Atherstone! Spitz Kop Mines, Wilms, 10806! Houtbosch, Rehnmnn, 63S5 ! 

 near Pretoria, Krt, 34 ! Johannesburg, Bawd, 104.3 ! VaR. ^ : Transvaal ; near 

 Lydenburg, Wilms, 1080 ! 



Eastern Begton, between 2000 and 7000 ft. : Jfatal ; Bushmans River, 

 Oerrard ^ McKen, 584 ! 771 ! Nottingham, Buchanan, 146 ! Rovelo Hills, 

 Sutherland ! Needs Berg, Wooi, 883 ! between Greytown and Newcastle, Wilms, 

 2199 ! near Lidgetton, TFood, 7737 1 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



3. S. fastigiata (Hiern); an erect herb, robust, \\ ft. high or 

 more ; stem rigid, subterete, puberulous, minutely glandular, den.sely 

 leafy, fastigiately branched at the top, indistinctly trisulcate ; leaves 

 often verticillate and ternate, once or twice tripartite, somewhat 

 hispidulous-scabrid, warty with small pallid lenticular or oval some- 

 what viscid tubercles, about 1-1^ in. long; segments divaricate, 

 fihform, acute or pointed, \-l in. long, flat or revolute on the 

 margins ; flowers spicate, numerous, crowded, sessile or subsessile, 

 inserted singly in the axils of bracts, bibracteolate at the base, pink ; 

 spikes dense, rather numerous, fastigiately associated, terminating 

 the branches, 3-4 in. long; bracts 3-lobed, J-|in. long, pilose about 

 the base, with narrowly lanceolate or Hnear lobes; bracteoles opposite, 

 linear-subulate, entire, cottony-pilose, about | in. long, inserted at 

 the base of the calyx ; calyx openly hemispherical, cof.tony-pilose 

 outside, 5-cleft, somewhat compressed, about i in. in diam. ; lobes 

 deltoid-lanceolate, about \ in. long; corolla thinly membranous, 

 veined, glabrous ; tube about \ in. long, y^-xV in- >" ^lara. ; mouth 

 oblique, oval, about J^ by yV i"- 5 ^'"^^ spreadmg, oblique, scarcely 

 \ in. broad, bilabiate ; lobes rounded, H in. broad, two of the 

 upper lip about \ in. long, three of the lower hp shallow; stamens 

 glabrous ; filaments curved, inserted about the top of the corolla- 

 tube, unequal, somewhat flattened, i^\ in. long; anthers cohering 

 somewhat viscid ; pistil glabrous ; ovary half-oval, obtuse, -, ,, m 

 long; style arching, exserted, \ in. long or rather more; stigma 

 slightly thickened, sublanceolate. 



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