﻿404 BCEOPHULARiACEiE (Hiem). [Harveya. 



pentagonal, inflated-eampanulate, viseid-pu'bescent outside, 5-cleft; 

 tube rounded or flat at the base ; lobes deltoid or ovate, erect, ^-^ in. 

 long ; corolla membranous ; tube exserted, glandular-puberulous 

 outside, curved downwards, campanulate above, subcylindrical below, 

 rather ample above, i-i in. in diam. about the middle ; limb spread- 

 ing, 1-1 1 in. across ; lobes broadly obovate, -|-|- in. long, wavy and 

 erose-crisp, 2 top lobes approximated and reflexed, 3 lower spreadmg 

 horizontally; throat compressed, narrowly oval, gamboge-colour; 

 filaments finely glandular-pilose or nearly glabrous; anthers all 

 perfect ; style glabrous, exceeding the stamens ; stigma globose, 

 imdivided. Hook., Ix., sub t. 351 ; Bentli. in DC. Prodr. x. 524. 

 Orohanche purpurea, fi. flore albo, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 454 

 fide Harv. Gen. 8. Afr. PI. ed. i. 249. O. spedahilk, E. Meyer 

 ex Drege, Cat. PL Exsice. Afr. Austr. 4. O. lacfea, EcU. et Zeyh. 

 ex Presl, Bot. Bemerh. 91. Harweya ladea, Presl, Ic H- 

 spedaUlis, Hook, ex Presl, I.e. 0. Aledra, D. Dietr. Syn. PI. m. 

 624. Cf. Harwaija lutea, Steud. Nomend. Bot. ed. 2, i. 723, and 

 Orobandie lutea, Steud., I.e., i. 723, ii. 231. 



Coast Region, asccndinsr to 3000 ffc. : Tulbagh Div. ; Mitchells Pass, Wyleyl 

 Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drege! C.ipe Div.; various places near and 

 :.round Capetown, Dreqe ; Masmn ! Zeyher, 1314a ! 3631 ! Harvey, 206 ! Bolus, 

 3260! 3280b and c! 3379! Wolley Dod, 579 \ JJwn bury, 153 ! Stellenboscli Div. ; 

 Hottentots Holland, Gueinzius ! Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, EcUon . 

 Sciaeclder,m3l\ Eiversdide Div. ; Garcias PasB, Burchell, 6929 I 6989! ^^^^^-, 

 dale Div. ; Vlugt, Bolus, 2i20l Humansdorp Div.; Storms River, Sc/iZec'i tec, 5957 . 



Westkbn Region : Nauiaqualaud ; Morris! 



According to a coloured figure made by Masson and preserved in the Bntisi 

 Museum herbarium, the interior of the corolla-tube is of a yellowish colour, the 

 same as the narrow mouth, the latter measuring about i in. long, the upper en 

 of which is occupied by the stigma. 



Harveya capensis, Wettst. in Engl, ^f Prantl, Fflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 96, fig- ^ 

 A — C, is not this species, nor is it H. Bolusii, 0. Kuntze. 



3. H. laxiflora (Hiem in Journ. Bot. 1897, 344); an annual 

 herb, erect or ascending, viscid-pubescent, 3-14 in. high; stem 

 simple, angular, rather ' slender ; leaves scale-like, few, opposite, 

 ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, not much narrowed at the sessile base, 

 entire, i-i in. long, ^V-rV i"- Iroad ; flowers usually about 1^-^ in- 

 long ; racemes lax, 6-1 -flowered, on the shorter specimens occupying 

 nearly the whole length of the plant ; pedicels alternate or opposite, 

 rather slender-viscid-pubescent, -|^-2 in. long, divaricate or suberect ; 

 bibracteolate above the middle ; bracteoles linear, i-i i"- ^""p 

 glandular-pubescent ; calyx campanulate, viscid-pubescent, unequally 

 5-cleft, f-l-v in. long; tube S-nerved ; lobes linear- lanceolate, 

 |-f in. long ; corolla puberulous or nearly glabrous outside, lilac an 

 yellow or rosy, membranous ; tube funnel-shaped, ample, gradually 

 widened upwards, more or less curved, usually 1^-1^ i"- ^°^S 5 "^ 

 more or less spreading, li-2 in. in diam. ; lobes broadly ovate, 

 rounded, crenulate-wavy, i-^ in. long; throat about i in. in diani. ; 

 filaments not pubescent, somewhat glandular; anthers all periect, 



