﻿Harveya.] sceophdlaeiacb^ (Hiern). 407 



MacOwan ^ Bolus, Herh. Norm., 1333! Eiversdale Div. ; by ii stream near the 

 summit of Kampsclie Berg, Burchell, 7065 ! 



8. H. hirtiflora (Schlecliter ia Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 184) ; an erect 

 herb, 4-8 in. high ; stem somewhat strict, simple, leafless, roundly 

 angular, puberulous with jointed hairs, minutely glandular ; leaves 

 scale-like, obtuse, mostly opposite, approximated at the bascof the 

 stem, distant above ; racemes 4-8-flowered : flowers approximated, 

 at times somewhat corymbose, bracts obovate or subspathulate or 

 sometimes narrower, obtuse, hairy, exceeding the pedicels ; pedicels 

 l-i in. long, hirsute or shaggy, subterete ; calyx subcampaaulate, 

 hirsute or shaggy, |-|- in. long ; segments erect, lanceolate, acute or 

 subacute, about as long as the tube; corolla brilliantly scarlet m 

 front, paler and yellowish outside, membranous, 1|-1^- m. long ; 

 tube from a subcylindrical base gradually dilated towards the throat, 

 hirsute, gently curved, i-li in. long, at the middle nearly « in. in 

 diam., at the throat i-f in. in diam. ; limb |-1 m. m diam. ; lobes 

 patent, rounded, very obtuse, very minutely ciliolatc, about ^in. long, 

 tilaments glabrous or sparingly glandular-pilose, inserted above the 

 middle of the corolla-tube; anthers subfalcate, spurred at the base, 

 all fertile; spur acute, about ^V in. long ; ^eHs scarcely x^m long ; 

 style exserted, filiform, quite glabrous, incurved at the apex, dist nctjy 

 exceeding the anthers ; stigmatic lobes oblong, obtuse, -^^--g m. long , 

 ovary ovoid, quite glabrous; stigma obovoid. 



Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div. ; on the stony parts of the hills near Reit- 

 fontein Poort, 150 ft., ScUecMer, 9706 ! 



9. H. Bolusii (0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. iii. ii- 234); an erect 

 herb, parasitical, simple or divided at the base, J-lj n high 

 glandular-pubescent, whole plant of an intense ^^^^^ f ^^^^fX, ^^ ^^^^^ 

 with rich orange; r^ot (perhaps that of the hoj allied tub ous 

 stems angular, furrowed; leaves opposite or ^^^'^/PP^^^^^t';' 

 scale-like, erect, adpressed to the stem or nearly so, ^f^^^^jfll 

 lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or acuminate, not much narrow d a 

 41 1 .- 13 ;„ Inner -i—i m. broad, concave, lew or 

 t^;tLS; So-«:"lill|'i.. ions; «3 .«, 



oriio., i-i tof long, glandular-pu^escent at W bo"' *^obe^ 

 on each face ; tube f ortly na™« d at he b , ^^^^,j^ J 



lanceolate or the shorter ova e, J^ '"• '""j' ,„„e„hat dilated and 

 not membrinons ; tube oytodncal-d'"'''''. jome 



decurved above. 1-li in. 'f". "r„utsWe postertr* hal} scarlet, 

 at the top, f"f'»X'"bSrorrg1tleri:rhalf(.roZfe,fl.^); 

 abruptly separated from the bngnt oidub . - ^j 



throa"; 'goi-coloured, but «* -■"-*<!■ ^°;tghr;ed ; lobcS 

 ZlaZ^ '^So7r^%. Ud, entire, scarcely wavy ; .tan.en» 



