﻿Earveya.] scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 413 



Central Kegion : Aliwal North Div. ; rocky places on the top of the Witte 

 Bergen, 7500 ft., Drege ! Hopetown Div. ; near Hopetown, Muslcett! 



Kalahae[ Kegion: Orange River Colony; Doornkop, Burhe! Transvaal; 

 Jeppestown Ridges, near Johannesburg, 6000 ft, GiMlan in Herb. Galpin, 

 6059! 



7 19. H. sq.uam08a (Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. 723^ Hanoaya) ; 

 4n annual herb, parasitical, i-3 ft. high ; stem erect or ascending, 

 simple or rarely branched, fleshy, nearly terete when alive, furrowed- 

 angular, strongly furrowed and angular when dried, whitish or 

 yellowish, densely clothed with foliaceous scales at least on the 

 lower part, scaly-tuberculate below, descending deep into the ground, 

 glabrous or more or less viscid-puberulous especially above; branches 

 when present short, virgate towards the apes ; leaves scale-like, 

 scattered or opposite, usually crowded, numerous, ovate or anceolate, 

 obtuse or apiculate, not much narrowed at the base, sessile, entire 

 adpressed, concave, decurrent, dusky-yellow, glabrous or somewhat 

 viscid-puberulous, \-\\ in. long, -,\-\ in. broad, the lower smaller; 

 bracts ovate or lanceolate, concave, i-l in. long, orange-yellow, 

 puberulous or pubescent ; bracteoles opposite, lanceolate or sub- 

 linear, obtuse, concave, orange-yellow, puberulous or pubescent 

 f-f in. long ; flowers numerous, sessile or shortly P^^^^f "^^^l^^^ 

 in. long; spikes dense, many-flowered, elongated, 3-12 m. long or 

 more ; pedicels usually much less than ^ in. long ; calyx campanu- 

 late-oblong, loose, erect, angular, puberulous or P^bescen outs d , 



bright or:;ge and yellow, M in. '^^^f' ^^'^i^^^^^J-'if ' X' 

 bracteate and bibracteolate at the base; lobes ^nceolate or ovate, 

 obtuse or scarcely acute, i-| in. long ; corolla o^g^/' ^°^^;«^- 

 branous, brilliant Lingyellow; tube subcylindi.cal,d^^^^^^^^ 



arching, yellow, viscid-puberulous outside, l^Ji m. long S a^^^^^y 

 and sfightlv widening upwards, iH mm ^lam. near th Jop 

 limb some^Aat ringent, x-f in. in diam deep orang or V^^^^^^J 

 sometimes dusky-orange; lobes ^^^"d^^'/^^^^t'hite' flaUened 

 glabrous within? stamens all P^-^^^^^ ;,/l^"/^':;t Jm^^^^^^^^ 

 somewhat glandular-pilose; anthers yellowish ^^ B^^^^^j^'j^^jfj 

 glabrous; s^le exceeding the stamens, bent downwards near the 

 top, not'prLuded i^ J^e Wg state ;s^m^ tlVm™.' 



loose, membranous. OroUnche squamosa ^^un^' ^if^ ^};/;X 

 Fl. Gup. ed. Sehult. 4.53. A^daya ^i^^'^f'^^'-^'- ^2h v 524 ; 

 ed. i. 250 ; Hook. Ic. FL t. 401 ; Benth.mDC. Iwdu^ ^ 



Kranss in Flora, 1844, 832. A. ^^-'Jf ^'^^^^X %S iv. GSs! 

 not of Harv. Phelipaa capensis, (r. f^'J^ ' 



{OrohancJie squammata, Thunb. {sphalmate ... Don I.e.). 



"■ between 



