﻿392 gCEOPHULAEiACE^ (Hiern). [Buchnera. 



g1al)roiis, |-i in. long ; bracteoles smaller, acute or subulate, 

 __L_i in. long ; calyx oblong, i-i in. long in flower, I in. long in 

 fruit; tube |- 1 in. long, glabrous or nearly so, 8- or 10-ribbed ; lobes 

 4 or 5, ovate or lanceolate or subulate, acute, ciliate, otherwise 

 glabrous, unequal, aV-rV ^^' lo°g; corolla-tube slender, about 

 ■|-|- in. long, finely and sparingly pilose outside ; limb at length 

 spreading, quincuncial in bud ; lobes oval or obovate, glabrous on 

 both faces, J-^H ^^- l"°gj rounded at the apex, emarginate, minutely 

 undulate on the margin ; stamens and style included within the 

 corolla-tube ; capsule oval-oblong, about ^ in. long; seeds irregularly 

 oval or oblong, numerous, nerved, somewhat reticulate. Benth. m 

 DC. Prodr. X. 496 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834 ; Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. iii. ii. 230 (Buechnera). 



Coast Region : Ceres Div. ; Sturfdeberg Range, Zeylier ! Worcester Dir. ; 

 Hex River Mountains, Rehmann, 2697 ! Caledon Div. ; Zondereinde River, 

 Zeyher, 34,92! nenr Donkerboek, Schlechter, 37101 Knysna Div.; Zitzikarama, 

 Krauss, 1618. Uitenhage Div.; Galgeboscb, Drege, 4859a! at tbe foot of 

 Witte Klip, MacOwan, 641! Port Elizabeth Div.; between Krakakamma lake 

 and the upper part of the Leadmine River, Burchell, 4601! Alexandria Div.; 

 Oliphants Hoek, i'cHow, 235 ! 241! between Hoffmanns Kloof and Dreifontein, 

 Drege. Bathurst Div.; between Blue Krantz and Kaffirs Drift, Burchell, 

 3715! near Theopolis, Burchell, illdl Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, MavOwan! 

 Howisons Poort, Button ! King Willianistown Div. ; between Kachu (Yellow- 

 wood) River and Zandplaat, Drige, 4859c! Perie wood, Kuntze! Stutterheim 

 Div. ; near Fort Cunninghame, Bolus, 8750 ! 



Kalahaei Region, between 4000 and 5000 ft. : Transvaal ; Faddleback 

 Mountain, Qalpin, 1325 ! Spitzkop, Wilms, 1036 ! near Middelburg, ScUecliter, 

 4103 ! 



Eastern Region: Transkei ; Tsomo River, Bowl-er, 819! Tcmbuland ; 

 Tabase, near Bazeia, Baur, 349 ! near Gala, Ro/ots, 8749 ! Pondoland; between 

 St. Johns and Umtsikaba Rivers, Drege! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 44! near 

 Durban, Wood, 163 I between the Umzimkulu and Umkomanzi Rivers, Drege; 

 near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 1618 ; Attercliffe, Sanderson, 246 ! and without 

 precise locality, Sanderson, 441 ! Gerrard, 41 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



2. B. brevibractealis (Hiern); an annual herb, rather rigid, 

 erect or procumbent, branched from the base upwards, turning dusky 

 in drying, i-2 ft. high ; stems and branches rather slender, wiry, 

 subtorete or obtusely quadrangular, leafy, glandular-hispidulous ; 

 leaves opposite or pseudo-fasciculate or the uppermost scattered, 

 linear or the lower spathulate or oblanceolate, obtuse or apiculate, 

 more or less narrowed at the sessile or shortly petiolate base, entire 

 or repand, scabrid, glandular-hispidulous, |-2i in. long, ^jri ^"; 

 broad ; flowers bright blue, spicate, numerous, erowded, |-| in. long ; 

 spikes not markedly quadrangular, erect or suberect, many-flowered, 

 dense and short in flower, elongating and at the base rather lax, 

 terminating the stems and branches, 1-8 in. long; pedicels very 

 short or obsolete, ojiposite, scattered or subverticillate ; bracts ovate, 

 pointed, ciliate, otherwise minutely glandular-hispidulous or sub- 

 glabrous, concave, adpressed to the calyx-tube, tW" ^°- ^°^°' 



