﻿406 SCKOPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [Ilarveya. 



Coast Region: Bredasdorp Diy. ; near Koude River, 1000 ft., SclilecMer, 

 9633 ! 



6. H. vestita (Hiern) ; a herb, dusky in the dry state ; stem 

 simple, erect, glandular-puberulous, leafy throughout especially 

 towards the base, densely scaly towards the base with abbreviated 

 leaves, 5 in. high ; leaves opposite or subopposite, mostly oval- 

 oblong, obtuse, sessile, glandular-puberulous, entire, |-| in. long ; 

 racemes few-flowered, 2 in. long, narrow ; pedicels ^-| in. long, 

 glandular-puberulous, suberect, arising from the axils of bracts ; 

 calyx f in. long, campanulate, rounded at the base, viscid-pubescent 

 outside; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube, glabrous 

 inside; corolla li-l^ in. long, funnel-shaped-tubular, slightly 

 glandular outside and in, veined ; tube broadly funnel-shaped at the 

 prolonged throat, a little curved, about 1 in. long, about l- in. broad 

 near the base, nearly I- in. broad about tfee throat ; throat ^ in. 

 long ; limb concave, about ^ in. broad ; lobes rounded, about f in. 

 broad ; filaments minutely glandular, not hirsute, filiform, longer 

 than the anthers ; anthers hairy about the top, beaked at the base ; 

 style exceeding the stamens and arching over them at the apex, 

 not exserted. 



South Africa: without locality, LaZaneJe / 



7. H. stenosiphon (Hiern) ; a parasitical herb, erect, scentless, 

 puberulous ; stems simple, 8-18 in, high, bluntly tetragonous, 

 purplish, oily to the touch ; leaves scale-like, opposite or alternate, 

 few and distant except about the base of the stem, purplish, oily to 

 the touch, oval or oblong, obtuse, not much narrowed at the sessile 

 base, concave, adpressed or approximated to the stem, entire, ^f m. 

 long by ^-i in. broad or the lower smaller, glandular-puberulous^; 

 flowers red-lead colour or deep vermilion or rarely white, about ^ 

 in. long; racemes terminal, 2-6-flowered, rather lax, 2-5 in. long; 

 pedicels |-li in. long, glandular-pubescent, bibracteate near the 

 apex ; bracteoles lanceolate or linear, subulate, -J-i in. long, 

 glandular-puberulous ; calyx inflated, loosely campanulate, 5-cleit, 

 purplish, oily to the touch, thinly glandular-puberulous, about | m. 

 long; lobes ovate-deltoid, J—i in. long, or one rather longer and 

 very blunt; corolla membranous; tube subcompressed, exserted 

 beyond the upper calyx-teeth, slender, gradually widening upwards 

 from the top of the calyx-tube, somewhat glandular outside, nearly 

 straight or curved, lA-li in. long, ^~\ in. broad at the narrow 

 Pai't, i-i in. broad at the top ; limb spreading, 11-2 in. in diam. ; 

 lobes broadly obovate, subtruncate, rugose-veined, crenulate-repand, 

 subequal in length, |-| in. long, deep scarlet above, paler beneath ; 

 mouth about | in. in diam. or rather less ; stamens glabrous or very 

 nearly so, apparently all perfect ; style glabrous ; stigma incurved, 

 capitate, obovoid, scarcely or shortly exserted, nearly filling the 

 throat of the corolla. 



Coast Region : Swellendam Div. ; slopes of the Langeberg Range, near 

 Swellendam, 1200 ft., Bolus, 8100! Borcherds in Herh. Bolus, 5918! anu 



