﻿396 SCROPHITLAKIACE^ (Hiem). [Cycnium. 



stigma lanceolate, | in. long ; capsule oval or ovoid, obtuse, apicu- 

 late with the remains of the style, obsoletely puberulous, about | m. 

 long. Dreye, Cat. PL Exsicc. Afr. Ausir. 3, and Ztvei Pflamen- 

 geogr. Documente, 131,143,176; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834; 

 Benth. in DC, Prodr. x. 505 ; Barv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. i. 258 ; 

 Grant ^ Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxix. 122, t. 88. G. longi- 

 florum. EM. <|- Zeyh. ex Oliv., I.e., 122. G. adoense, Benth. ^ Book. 

 f. Gen. PI. ii. 969 ; Brhje in LinncEa, xx. 199. Cycnium sp. n., 

 T. Thorns, in Speke, Journ. Nile, Append. 642. 



Coast Regiok, ascending to 20O0 ft. : Uitenhage Div. ; Addo, Brege, 2295a ! 

 and without precise locality, Zei//!er,204! Bathurst Div.; between Blue Krantz 

 and Kaffirs Drift, Burchell. 3692 ! 3874 ! at the mouth of the Great Fish Kiver, 

 Burcliell, 3741! Salem, Zeyher, 3494! near Theopolis, BurcJiell, ^^'^ ■^''^^ 

 Round Hill, Bolus, 7896 ! Albany Div. ; near Grahainstown, Burke ! MacUwan, 

 212 ! East London Div. ; Panmure, Mrs. Button ! King WiUiaoistown Div. ; 

 Keiskamma, Mrs. Button! British Kaflfraria, Cooper, 115 1 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Macmac, Mwdd .' hills near Aapies River, 

 Hehmann, 4251! around Barberton, Galpin, 537 1 Matebe YaMey, Moluo . 

 Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ! Bezuideuhoat Valley, Rand, 879 ! 



Eastern Region, ascending to 2500 ft.: Tembuland; ^azeia, Bowr, 1159! 

 East Griqualand ; about Clydesdale, Tyson, 2007 ! Natal ; Inanda, Y°°%^: 

 between Greytown and Newcastle, Wilms, 2224 I feiUs near t^^e Lml«*9-«^| 

 ^rav^ Sanderson, 220! and without precise locality, Gerard, 4:Z6 . oxo 

 Delagoa Bay, Jimod, 318 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



The hairs of the staminal beard are very beautiful ; they are tapered, mom i- 

 form, arranged as a brush, and restricted to the inner face of the filament, i^an 

 in Journ. Bot. 1903, 196. 



2. C. racemosum (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 368) ; an 

 erect herb, robust, scabrid-puberulous or nearly glabrous, 1-4 ft. higi, 

 dusky when dried, simple or sparingly branched, apparently peren- 

 nial ; stem somewhat angular, furrowed, leafy ; branches suberect, 

 ascending or subdivaricate ; leaves opposite or almost verticillate i^^ 

 threes or subopposite or the upper alternate, lanceolate, oblong 

 elhptical, acute or apiculate, wedge-shaped or somewhat ^^^^^^^^ 

 towards the base, sessile or subsessile, subentire to mcise-den a , 

 1-3 in. long, -^-^l in. broad ; flowers rather numerous, pm^ ^^ 

 white, |-li in. long; racemes terminal; pedicels short ^or up^^ 

 f in. long ; bracteoles 2, sublinear, filiform or subulate, J~J^\ ^q[ 

 adnate to the base of the calyx ; calyx prismatic-cylindrical, " 

 ribbed, turbinate at the base, 6-dentate, nearly glabrous o^^fP -^ 

 seabrid at least along the ribs and margin, |-1 in. long, g e ' 

 diam. ; tube straight, |-| in. long lying close to the c^rolla-tu ^^'^ 

 teeth lanceolate, acute or acuminate, somewhat unequal, g-* ^'^^ ^^' 

 somewhat spreading; corolla-tube subcylindrical, shortly ^^^'^^^-jg 

 curving near the apex, funnel-shaped at the apex, glabrous '^^ 

 or nearly so, pilose within below, |-li in. long ; limb sprea o- 

 l|-2i in. in diam. ; lobes broadly obovate, |-1 in. long, ^^^^^j^^^g 

 upper connate higher up than the rest ; filaments bearded , 

 apiculate, obtuse at the base, glabrous ; ovary fleshy, ovoid-co 



