﻿Harveya.'] scrophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 409 



|— li in. long or less, bibracteolate above the middle ; bracts similar 

 to the leaves ; braoteoles oval-oblong or sublinear, |->- in. long ; 

 calyx oblong-campanulate or urceolate, more or less ventricose, 

 shortly 5 -cleft, glandular-puberulous, nearly rounded at the base, 

 'J-f in. long; lobes triangular or nearly rounded, unequal ,/y—^- in. 

 long, 3 connate higher than the rest ; corolla white or purple, mem- 

 branous ; tube subcylindrical, glandular-puberulous along the back, 

 otherwise subglabrous, nearly straight or curved, |-1 in. long, 

 |-i in. in diam., somewhat widened at the throat ; limb openly 

 campanulate, less spreading than in most species, -^-1 in. in diam. ; 

 lobes rounded, wavy, crenulate or denticulate, J— ^ in. long ; stamens 

 all perfect ; filaments minutely glandular ; style short, exceeding the 

 stamens; stigma obovoid-clavate, bent downwards, not exserted. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 525. 



Coast Region • Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, IlcUon ! 8chmieterloh, 177 ! Devils 

 Mountain, Bolus, 33S0 ! Table Mountain, Burchell, 643 ! Harvey ! Stellcnbosch 

 Div.; Hottentots Hollaud, Queinzms ! Riversdale Div.; near tlie Zoetemelks 

 River, Burchell, 6613 ; near the summit of Karapsche Berg, Burchell, 7064 ! 

 Uiteuhage Div. ; Witteklip Mountain, MacOwan, 1941 ! Alexandria Div. ; 

 Ollfants Hoek, EcJclon ! i r., o i 



Centbal Region: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 1/12! 



12. H. coccinea (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 183); a 

 root-parasite, viscid-pubescent, turning black in drying; stem, 

 bracts and scales dull crimson; stem erect or ascending, 

 ribbed and furrowed, rigid, 6-18 in. high, simple and usually 

 straight above, thickened and sometimes shortly branched at or 

 near the base; leaves scale-like, scattered or opposite, ovate or 

 oval, obtuse, broad and somewhat amplexicaul at the base, concave, 

 entire, -i-i in. long, J^-| in. broad; raceme terminal, rather loosely 

 2-24-flowered, 1-12 in. long ; pedicels opposite or alternate, sub- 

 erect, A_i in. long, from the axils of bracts or leaves, 1 -flowered, 

 bibracteolate at or near the apex, the lower the longer; bracts 

 similar to the leaves, about as long as the pedicels or longer in the 

 ease of the upper ones; bracteoles oblong or sublmear, ip- in. long , 

 calyx campanulate, nearly rounded at the base, J-| m. long, shortly 

 5-lobed: lobes deltoid or subovate, obtuse, J-J- in. long, erect ; 

 corolla membranous, yellow on the tube, pink on the limb when 

 fully expanded inclining to white, |-1 in. long; tube funne -shaped, 

 inflated upwards, curved, lO-nerved, glabrous mside, glandular- 

 puberulous outside, i-i in. broad about the middle, ^,-, in. broM 

 at the top ; mouth oval or round, \-\ in. m diam. inside ; limb 

 spreading or somewhat reflexed, f-H i"- ^^ ^jam. ; lobes 5, rounded 

 ^avy, Ain. broad, glabrous above or ^^^^ly so, veined ; filament^, 

 minitely glandular; anthers glabrous, alike, each of t^'C cells beaked 

 at the tip; style minutely glandular, exceeding the stamens bent 

 about thi ^pex over the anthers, not exserted ; stigma clavate- 

 capitate. Aulaya coccinea, Earv. Thes. Cap. i. 2.6, t. vso. 



n T> J- f ^rr, innrn-o 6800 ft. : Cape Div. ; summit of Table 



Coast Region, ascending from 1000 ^^.y°^,-^^Z rtnUii ' in a wood above 



Mountain, Schlechter, 475 I haU near Smitswmkel Bay. Bolus . lu awooa aoove 



