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416 SCE0PHULA.EIACE2E (Hiern). [Hyolanche. 



base, glabrous, dehiscing laterally from the apex. Ovary ovoid- 

 conical, 2-celled ; placentas geminate or bifid, very prominent ; 

 ovules very numerous ; style filiform, inflexed above, glabrous, 

 exceeding the stamens; stigma thickly clavate or subglobose, 

 emarginate or somewhat bilobed. Capsule subglobose, fleshy, at 

 length deliquescent. Seeds numerous, minute, globose ; testa loose, 

 reticulate. 



Low parasitical herbs, fleshy or at the base somewhat woody, coloared ; leaves 

 scale-like, imbricate, scattered, ovate or oval, coloured, adpressed ; flowers 

 sessile or very shortly pedicellate, numerous, rather large, in terminal bracteate 

 and bibracteolate spikes. 



DiSTRiB. Species 5, endemic. 



Plant red or purplish ; bracteoles obtuse ; flowers 

 1^-2^ in, long; corolla-tube snbcylindrical : 

 Flowers all sessile ; spike oblong or pyrami- 

 dal (1) sanguinea. 



Lower flowers shortly pedicellate ; spike sub- 

 corymbose : 



Calyx-tube glabrous ; corolla straight 

 or not much curved ; stigma large, 

 subglobose : 



Stamens exserted (2) glabrata. 



Stamens about equalling the 



corolla, included (3) rubra. 



Calyx-tube sparingly pilose ; corolla 

 curved ; stigma subclavate ... (4) Barklyi. 

 Plant dusky -purple nearly throughout ; bracteoles 

 acuminate ; flowers about 1 in. long ; corolla -tube 

 obovoid (5) atropurpurea. 



1. H. sanguinea (Linn. Mant. alt. 253); an erect herb, 3-9 in. 

 high ; root parasitical on bulbs or on the roots of Tripteris, Passe- 

 rina, Aspalathus, &e. ; stem fleshy, sometimes almost woody, simple, 

 white, terete, densely clothed with scale-like leaves, as thick as a 

 man's finger ; leaves imbricate, ovate or oblong, very obtuse, some- 

 what or scarcely narrowed at the base, sessile, adpressed or but little 

 spreading, entire, fleshy, somewhat concave, f-l^ in. long by i-f in- 

 broad or the lower smaller, pale rosy or scarlet, more or less minutely 

 viscid-tomentose on the back, glabrous within ; flowers numerous, 

 sessile, l|-2 in, long ; spikes terminal, dense, 2-}-Q in. long, oblong or 

 pyramidal^ about three times as thick as the stem ; bract similar to 

 the leaves, about ^ in. long ; bracteoles opposite, linear-oblong, |-1 in- 

 long, obtuse, puberulous or pubescent with purple hairs ; calyx 

 H-l-l- in. long, 5-cleft ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, |—| in- I^ng, 

 with purple pubescence outside ; corolla purplish, white below, 

 shaggy outside, subcylindrical, somewhat curved, ringent, unilabiate ; 

 lip obtuse, subfornicate, emarginate; mouth vertical, | in. long; 

 anthers dehiscing on the upper side ; stigma thickened at the apex, 

 emarginate, whitish. Thunb. Prodr. 106, and Fl. Cap. ed. SchuU. 

 488 partly ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 506 ; Endlicher, Iconogr. 

 Gen. PI. vii. 82 ; Rarv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. i. 249, and in Book. Land. 

 Journ. Bot. iii. 142, t. 3 ; Wettst. in Engl. 4- Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 



