﻿Earveya.'] sceophulakiace^ (Hiern). 405 



style equalling the corolla-tube or shortly exserted, glabrous, curved 

 towards the apex ; stigma capitate, subglobose. 



Coast Region: Tnlba^h Div. ; Tulbagh, Fappe .' Cape Div. ; suiumifc of 

 Muizen Berg, Bolus, 3381! Wolley Bod, 584 f Caledon Div.; Genadendal, 

 Kolbing ! 



4. H. sulphurea (Hiern) ; a dwarf herb, simple, 3-4 in. high, 

 dusky when dried ; stem erect or ascending, firm, glabrous below, 

 viscid -puberulous above ; leaves scale-like, opposite or suboppositc, 

 the lower rather crowded, the upper less approximate, oval or oblong, 

 concave, adpressed to the stem or suberect, xt~^ in. long, -j^-} in. 

 broad, glabrous or viseid-puberulous on the back or margin ; flowers 

 rather numerous, about 1 in. long ; racemes dense or at base lax, 

 1|-2|- in. long, terminal ; pedicels unequal, the lowest ^-f in. long, 

 the upper very short ; bracteoles sublicear, | in. long or less ; calyx 

 about I in. long, 5-cleft about i-way dov/n, glandular-puberulous 

 outside, narrowly campanulate, somewhat turbinate at the base; 

 lobes sublanceolate, |-i in. long, unequal in breadth ; corolla not 

 membranous, slightly glandular-puberulous outside, sulphur-yellow, 

 obliquely campanulate ; tube somewhat curved, f-f in. long, about 

 i in. broad near the top ; limb more or less spreading, ^-1 in- "i 

 diam. ; lobes rounded, ^-| in. long ; filaments minutely glandular ; 

 anthers glabrous ; stigma subglobose, undivided, glabrous, somewhat 

 compressed. 



Coast Region: ClanwilHam Div.; Paklmis Pass, Cederberg Range, 

 2000 ft., Bolus, 9070 ! 



5. H. euryantha (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 184) ; an 

 erect herb, leafless, 6-12 in. high ; stem simple, obtusely anguhir, 

 puberulous with jointed hairs, minutely glandular ; leaves scale-like, 

 opposite, oblong, puberulous, distant ; raceme closely 3-8-flowered ; 

 flowers handsome, opposite or the uppermost alternate; bracteo es 

 patent or suberect, somewhat shaggy ; pedicels about equalling the 

 calyx, somewhat shaggy, erect ; calyx subturbmate, somewhat shaggy- 

 hispid, A_3 in long : segments lanceolate-triangular, obtuse, as long 

 as the tube or longer, f-i in. long; corolla 1|-1a in. long, mem- 

 branous ; tube ample, puberulous on the back, otherwise nearly 

 glabrous : mouth broad, throat ventricosely campanulate, t in. long, 

 a little compressed laterally; lobes patent, rounded, very obtuse, 

 sparingly puberulous outside or nearly glabrous, usually thinly cilio- 

 iate along the margin, nearly entire or obscurely subcrenulate, about 

 f in. in diam. ; stamens inserted on the tube of the corollaabove its 

 base, shorter ones fertile; filaments subulate-filiform, umfanously 

 puberulous in front, the shorter i in. long, ^^^ ^^^^^^ « ^"- i^' 

 anthers glabrous, falcate, apiculate, spurred at tae base, the serie 

 scarcely | in. long, the fertile cohering at the apex and 1 in. long; 

 ovary ovdd, quite glabrous; style filiform, glabrous incurved at 

 the apex, about If in. long; Hps of the stigma oblong or oval, 

 obtuse, tV in* lo^o- 



