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BhampMcarpn.] scEOPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). 399 



spreading-hemispherieal, veined, j-f in. in diam. ; lobes 5, rounded 

 about i in. in diam. ; stamens shortly included within the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers narrowly oblong, about ^\ in. long ; style equallincr 

 the stamens ; stigma club-shaped, somewhat hairy-glandular, erect'; 

 ovary conical, somewhat compressed, glabrous ; ' capsule obliquely 

 rounded at the base, beaked, somewhat compressed, f-i in. lono- 

 B. lo7igiflora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bat. Hag. i. 368, partly, not 

 of Benth. in BO., I.e. Macrosiphon fistulosus, Hochst. in Flora 

 1841, i. 374. M. elongatus, Hochst. I. c. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Boshveld, Buckenhouts Kloof Spruit 

 Mehmann, 4786 1 near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1087 ! Marabas Stad, SchlecMer, 



Eastekn Region : Natal ; between Greytown and Newcastle, Wilms, 2221 1 

 Also in Tropical Africa. 



2. R. tubulosa (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 3G8) ; a 

 glabrous or nearly glabrous herb, branched or simple, turning dusky 

 in drying, shining, erect or ascending, smooth or slightly verrucose- 

 glandular, 5-24: in. high, apparently perennial, probably a root-para- 

 site ; stem tetragonal ; branches lax, elongated, slender, moderately 

 leafy, sulcate ; leaves opposite or subopposite, linear or nearly so, 

 narrowed towards both ends, acute or pointed, cartilaginous at the 

 tip, sessile or subpetiolate, erect-patent, entire or sparingly denticu- 

 late, rather thick with immersed veins, 1-3 in. long, -gV-f in- broad ; 

 flowers f- 1^ in. long, like Phlox, purple, white or pale rosy; 

 racemes terminal, pedunculate, lax, simple or branched below ; 

 pedicels slender, rigid or firm, 1 -flowered, ^-l in. long, solitary ia 

 the axils of the bracts ; calyx campanulate-turbinate, 5-c!eft, 

 10-neived, rather loose, \~^ in. long, ebracteolate ; lobes sub- 

 lanceolate, keeled, acuminate, subacute, ^^ in. long ; corolla-tube 

 narrowly subcylindrical, |-1|^ in. long, more or less curved, glabrous 

 or minutely puberulous ; limb y-lf in. in diam. ; lobes 5, spreading, 

 obovate, rounded, |~ in. long, upper two connate high up; 

 nlaments pubescent ; anthers glabrous, included, narrow, oblong, 

 Tt m. long; style shorter than the stamens; stigma thickened, 

 ^^tG ; capsule shortly and obliquely ovoid, |-} in. long and 

 broad, glabrous, shortly and obliquely beaked, somewhat compressed; 

 valves coriaceous. Benth. in DG. Prodr. x. 504; Harv. Thes. Cap. 

 ^- 36, t. 57 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834. Gerardia tubulosa, 

 ^^ftn. f. Suppl 279 ; Tlmnh. Prodr. 105, and Fl. Gap. ed. 8chuU. 

 487. Gyaiium tuhidosum, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. 



fO Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 2.38, gives three varieties depending on the size 

 or the flowers : a. normalis, corolla-limb t'o-^t'o i"- broad; 0. parvijiora, corolla- 

 Innb I in. broad; y. grandifiora, corolla-limb I|-l| in. broad. 



Coast Regiok, ascending to 3000 ft.: Geori^e Div. ; near George, Bolus, 

 yi8o ! Knysna Div. ; Plettenberg Bay, Boide I Uitenhage Div. ; ninrshy 

 Pl-ices in the channel of Zwart Kops Kiver, Ztyher, 31 ! 3493 ! EcMon ! Enon, 

 y!'''ff^> 35a7a! Port Elizabeth Div.; Krakakamma, Thunherg ! MacOwan, 

 ■fOs^l ! Algoa Bay, Cooper, 2836 ! 2838 ! Batlinrst Div. ; near Port Alfred, 

 ^urchell, 4004! Albany Div.; GleufiUing, Dre^e, 3o97b ! Mill Kiver, GUI! 



