﻿394 scEOPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). [Biichnera. 



Kalahari REaiON : Transvaal; near Pretoria, Kirh, 421 Vtrechfc district, 

 Patteshall Thomas J near Lake Chrissie, Wilms, 1037 ! Hells Gate, near Lydeii- 

 burg, Wilms, 1043 ! near Middelburg, Schlechter, 4106 ! 



Eastern Eegion, between 2000 and 5000 ft. : Transkei ; Kreilis country, 

 Boivker, 202 ! valley of the Kei River, Bowker, 419 ! Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur, 

 390 ! Pondoland ; Fakus Territory, Sutherland ! East Griqualand ; near Kokstail, 

 Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 4175'! Mount Currie, Tyson in MacOwan ^ Bolus, 

 Herh Norm., 1221! mountains near Clydesdale, Tyson, 19821 Natal; near 

 Nottingliam Road, Wood, 4400! VVeenen County, Wood, 5730! and without 

 precise locality, Cooper, 2835 ! 



The difference in the size of the flowers in the various specimens suggests 

 specific differences, but the delimination of such species would be difficult. 



4. B. reducta (Hiern); an animal herb, suberect, -} ft. bigh, 

 somewhat branched, scabrid, turning dusky in drying ; stem aleader, 

 -wiry ; branches suberect, tetragonal, glandular-hispidulous ; leaves 

 opposite, linear or the lowest oblanceolate, obtuse, somewhat narrowed 

 at the base, sessile or the lowest shortly petiolate, scabrid- hispidulous, 

 \-ll in. long, ■j\—} in. broad, entire ; flowers blue, rather numerous, 

 i-i in. long, sessile or subsessile ; spikes subcapitate in flower, 

 dense, sHghtly interrupted at the base, terminating the stems and 

 branches; bract lanceolate, subacute, scabrid-hispidulous on the 

 back and margin, concave ^ in. long ; bracteoles sublinear, sparmgly 

 hispidulous, ^V in. long, acute ; calyx i in. long, hispidulous outside, 

 narrow ; tube i in. long ; lobes 5, lanceolate, acute, ^^ m. long ; 

 corolla-tube about | in. long, slender, somewhat puberulous withm, 

 the exposed part finely pilose outside ; limb somewhat spreading ; 

 lobes 5, obovate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, ^\ in. long ; stamens 4, 

 glabrous or nearly so, g^o~-2V i^- ^^^^8 > ai^thers acute. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; without precise locality, Mrs. Stainhank in 

 Berh. Wood, 36651 



Imperfectly hnoion Species. 



5. B. erinoides (Jarosz, PI. Nov. Cap. 19) ; root annual, fi^r°"J' 

 obhque ; stem erect, herbaceous, terete, striate, pilose, branched, 

 2-3 in. high, with the habit of Erinus alpinus, Linn.; leaves 

 opposite, oblong, obtuse, petiolate, erect, serrate, pubescent, 4 in- 

 long, \ in. broad ; bracts similar in shape to the leaves but less 

 serrate ; flowers terminal, crowded in a leafy head ; calyx tubular, 

 obsoletely toothed, \ in. long; corolla exceeding the calyx-tube, 

 blue ; limb regular ; lobes oblong, cordate, spreading, g- in. long. 



South Africa : without locality, Jarosz ! 



6. B. capitata (Burm. fil. Prodr. Cap. 17) ; stem erect, simple, 

 leafless ; leaves radical, lanceolate, undivided, entire ; flower 

 capitate. Not of Bentham in DC. Prodr. x. 495. 



South Afbica : without locality, Burman! , 



There does not appear to be any specimen bearing this name in Burman ^^ 



collection of South African plants now belonging to the Delessert herbarium 



Geneva. 



