﻿Rarveya.] scEOPHULARrACE* (Hiern). 403 



coloured or delicately purplish-white or whitish ; tube inflated- 

 ventricose, funnel-shaped below, somewhat or scarcely contracted at 

 the mouth, puberulous outside, |-| in. broad ; limb nearly flat, 

 spreading, mostly 1^-1 3- in. in diam.; lobes nearly equal, about }■ in. 

 long, lowest one marked with a yellow-ochre spot, rounded, wavy or 

 toothed ; throat nearly round, about |- in. in diam., yellowish- white ; 

 stamens pubescent or shortly puberulous, glandular ; 2 filaments 

 inserted on the lower side of the corolla-tube longer than the others ; 

 anthers all perfect. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 351 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 

 832. Orobanche purpurea, Linn. f. Suppl. 288 ; Reuter in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 37 ; Thunh. Prodr. 97, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 453, 

 excl. var. yS ,- not of J acq. ; nor of Sm. ; nor of Bafin. Gerardia 

 orohanchoidcs, Lam. Encijcl. ii. 690. Orobanche uitenhagensis, Eckl. 

 ex Hook. I.e. Orobanche 7874, Brege, Zwd Pflanzengeogr. Bocu- 

 mente, 125, 130, 205, name arid number only. Aulaya grandiflora, 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 523. A. purpurea, Bentli., I.e. Oro- 

 banche 638, Zeyher ex Benth., I.e. 0. pratensis, Ecklon ^ Zeyher 

 ex Presl, Bat. Bemerk. 91. Harweya (Pseudoharm-ya) pratensis 

 Presl, I.e. 



Coast Region : Malimsbui-y Div. ; Zwartlautl, Thunherg ! Woioester Div. ; 

 Dutoits KlooF, Drege! Bolus, 5361! Cape Div.; Muizen Berg, Bolus, Herb. 

 Norm., 378 ! Stelleubosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 5377 ! Ciiledon Div ; 

 near the Klein R'wer, Kraus.^. Riversdale Div.; Zoetemelks Wwer, Burchell, 

 6C10/2! Mossel Bay Div. ; between Swelleiulam and Mossel Bay, Thunherg! 



MacOwan, 9l'! Stockenstvom Div. ; Lushington Mountain, Scully, 168 1 

 Queenstown Div. ; Queenstovvn, Cooper, 2818 ! Haiigklip Mountain, Galpm, 

 1767 ! 



Central Rkgion : Somerset Div. ; Bruintjes Hoogte, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 

 1248! 



Kalahaei Region : Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2817 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal"; Klip River, 3500-4500 ft., Sutherland .' 



Orohanclie tulhaghensis, EcU. ^ Zeyh. ex Presl, Bot. Bemerh, 91, = f ^^f C 

 {Hartceyastrum) tulhaghensis, Presl, I.e., from Tulbagh Mountains, should be 

 compared with this species. 



/ 2. H. capensis (Hook. Ic. PI. t. 118); an erect herb, annual, 

 parasitical on roots of Blcerta miiscosa and other Encace^, &c., 

 simple or branched, viscid, scabrid-pubescent, <3-24 in high ; stem 

 angular, reddish, flexuous-erect or nearly straight, not dense y scaly 

 except below ; leaves scale-like, opposite or the uppermost alternate, 

 ovate or oblong, obtuse, not very much narrowed to the sessile base, 

 entire, reddish, concave, F| in. long, >--^ in. broad, adpressed ; 

 flowers several in the dry state l^-li in. long, white on both aces 

 or changing to pink or yellowish-white suffused with flesh colour, 

 scentless or fragrant; racemes terminal, 2-12-flowered ; pedicels 

 erectorsuberectrupto 1 in. long or rather more, opposite or alter- 

 nate, bibracteolate at the apex or above the middle viscid-piibescent ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate or linear, i-| in. long; calyx ,-1 in. long, 



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