﻿388 SCROPHULARIACE^ (Hiem). ^Sopulia. 



Eastern Region : Swaziland ; on the lower slopes of Piggs Peak, 3000 ft., 

 Galpin, 1337 ! 



General aspect of S. Welwitschii, Engl., but the flowers are smaller and 

 arranged in several fastigiate spikes ; compare with 8- Welwitschii, var. 

 micrantha, Engl. Pjl. Ost-AJr. C 359. 



4. S. trifida (Hamilt. ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 88) ; a perennial 

 herb ; stems several from the rootstock, erect or ascending, simple or 

 somewhat branched, subterete or obtusely tetragonous, glabrous or 

 sparingly beset with very short hispid hairs, leafy, rigid, rather 

 slender, 1-1|- ft. high; leaves opposite, simple, tripartite or triden- 

 tate from the middle, scabrous, verrucose-lenticellate, whole leaves 

 or the segments linear-filiform, pointed, i-1 in. long ; flowers race- 

 mose, numerous, purple ; pedicels 1-iiowered, slender, up to | in. 

 long, bibiacteolate near the apex ; bracteoles linear-subulate, yV"! ^J^" 

 I'jng ; catlyx campanulate, nearly glabrous outside or slightly scabrid 

 or minutely glandular, shortly 5-cleft, i-i in, long ; lobes ovate- 

 deltoid, pointed, woolly-felted within, xV" tV ^^- ^^^S ! corolla-limb 

 about ^ in. in diam. ; capsule oval, about i in. long. Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 522. Manulea Sopubia, Hamilt., I.e. Gerardia 

 SopuUa, Benth. in Hook. Camp. Bot. Mag. \\ 210. 



Kalahari Region: Hells Gate, on the road to Spitz Kop, Lydenburg 

 district, Wilms, 1044 ! 

 Eastern Region : Natal ; Griffins Hill, Estcourt, Rehmann, 7302 ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and India. 



5. S. Eenii (S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 462) ; a perennial 

 herb ; stems several from the rootstock, erect or ascending, terete and 

 glabrous below, tetragon ous and more or less cottony-scaly above, rigid, 

 slender, simple or somewhat branched, leafy, f-li ft. high, as well 

 as the erect-patent or ascending branches virgate ; leaves opposite, 

 sublinear, obtuse or apiculate, not very much contracted at the 

 narrowly decurrent sessile base, entire or minutely denticulate, rigid, 

 suberect, glabrescent, minutely sessile-glandular, i-2 in. long, 

 aV-i in- broad ; flowers racemose, rather numerous ; pedicels mostly 

 opposite, up to } in. long, bibracteolate about or above the middle ; 

 bracteoles sublinear, J-^^-J- in. long, obtuse; calyx ^ in. long, 

 campanulate, deeply 4-cleft, glabrous ; lobes oblong or semi-elhptical, 

 obtuse, xV in. long ; corolla-lobes i-i in. long. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Wonderboom Poort, near Pretoria, Pfj^j 

 manv, 4501 ! between Trigards Fontein and Standerton, Rehmann, blot 

 bet«ec'n Standerton and Pretoria, Wilms, 1081 ! 



Also in Damaruland. 



XL. BOPUSIA, Presl. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed ; lobes triangular-lanceolate, equalling 

 or rather longer than the tube, somewhat larger in fruit. CorolUi- 

 tuhe exserted, funnel-shaped, ample, somewhat ventricose ; lit»D 

 spreading; lobes 5, rounded, entire, not verv unequal, the two 



