﻿412 SCEOPHULAKIACE^ (Hiern). [Harveya. 



Thunb. , from which it is easily detached ; stem obsolete or up to 

 about ] in. long, fleshy, densely scaly ; leaves none ; scales broadly 

 oval or subrotund, broad at the base, sessile, entire, somewhat fleshy, 

 dusky when dried, viscid-puberulous outside, smooth within, 

 adpressed, ^V^ i°- lo^gi xV"! i^- broad ; flowers crowded, several, 

 sessile or subsessile, handsome, about If in. long ; bract oval, 

 rounded, sessile, concave, dusky when dried, viscid-puberulous out- 

 side, smooth Avithin, I in. long, i in. broad; bracteoles 2, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, sessile, dusky when dried, viscid-puberulous outside, 

 smooth within, f-f in. long, iV^tV ^'^- broad, erect, inserted near 

 the base of the calyx and free from it ; calyx campanulate-oblong, 

 lax, dusky when dried, glandular-pubescent outside, smooth inside, 

 5-cleft, |- in. long ; lobes erect or suberect, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 

 |— |- in. long, but two connate higher up than the others ; corolla 

 firm, fleshy, of a vivid rose-red colour {Band) ; tube cylindrical- 

 funnel-shaped, glandular-pubescent outside, glabrous within, below 

 narrower than the calyx-tube, about 1^ in. long, at the top about 

 ^ in. in diam. ; limb somewhat spreading, about -f-li in. in 

 diam., ciliolate on the lower part of the lobes, otherwise subglabrous ; 

 lobes 5, obovate- rotund, undulate-crenulate, ^-^ in. long, f-| ^^• 

 broad ; anthers glabrous, slightly cohering in pairs, 2-celled ; the 

 longer cell narrowly acuminate ; filaments glandular-puberuloas ; 

 style exceeding the stamens, equalling the corolla-tube, subglabrous, 

 bent downwards and forwards at the apex, overhanging the stamens ; 

 stigma dilated, unequally bilobed at the apex. Band in Journ. Bot., I.e. 



Kalahaei Eegion : Transvaal ; on stony hills around Johannesburg, Rani, 

 722! ' 



The plants form brilliant patches of colour. 



7 18. H. scarlatina (Hook, ex Steud. Komencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. 723, 

 / Harwaya) ; a puherulous herb, erect or ascending, simple or some- 

 what branched, 3-6 in. high ; stem furrowed, obtusely angular when 

 dried; leaves scale-like, ovate or elliptical, obtuse, not much 

 narrowed at the base, sessile, opposite, mostly approximated, ^-f m. 

 long by ^L_A in, inroad or the lower smaller and imbricate, erect, 

 adpressed, concave; flowers spicate-racemose, l^-H ^°- ^°°^ ' 

 inflorescence dense, 2-6-flowered, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels very short 

 or up to } in. long, bibracteolate at the apex ; bracteoles oblong or 

 sublinear, i-f in. long; calyx loosely campanulate-cylindrical, 

 sparingly puberulous, about |-1 in. long, S-lobsd ; tube about 

 |-f in. long; lobes ovate-oblong or rounded, unequal, }-} in- ^^^^ 

 corolla tough, not membranous; tube subcylindrical, but little 

 dilated upwards, nearly glabrous, 1 i-l^ in. long, not much curved, 

 about i in. in diam. at the top of the calyx-tube and I in. in diam- 

 at the apex; limb f-lx in. in diam.; lobes rounded, i in. lo^S' 

 the lateral reflexed ; mouth round, a-^ in. in diam.; stamens 

 glabrous; style exserted beyond the corolla-tube, tumid-clavate at 

 the apex. OrohoMch^^scarlatina^ E. Meyer ex Drege, Cat. rU 

 Exsicc. 4. Aulaya scarlatina, Benth, in DC. Prodr. x. 524. 



