﻿Hyobanche.] sceophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 419 



■5-^ in. long ; tube quite glabrous within ; stamens glabrous, about 

 equalling the corolla ; ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style curved at the 

 apex, glabrous, about equalling the stamens ; stigma rather thick, 

 subclavate, compressed. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; parasitic on bulbs, on sand-hills near 

 Port Nollotb, BarUy! 



5. H. atropurpurea (Bolus in Hook. Ic. PI. xv. 67, t. 1486); a 

 parasitical herb, leafless, minutely glandular-puberulous, 3-4 in. high, 

 dark purple nearly throughout ; spike dense, subterminal ; bract of 

 the upper flowers oblong or tongue-shaped, obtuse, patent at the 

 apex, f in. long ; bracteoles 2, linear, acuminate, erect-patent, -*- in. 

 long ; calyx veined, as long as the bracteoles, deeply 5-lobed ; 

 segments equal, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, three times as long as 

 the tube ; corolla about 1 in. long, cucullate, veined, shortly tubular, 

 sparingly puberulous outside, glabrous within ; tube about J- in. long, 

 tV in. in diam at the base, l in. in diam. at the top, obovoid ; mouth 

 obovate, widely open, oblique ; lobes triangular, front one subulate ; 

 stamens not exceeding the corolla ; style shortly bilamellate and 

 stigmatose-thickened at the apex, glabrous; upper part of the 

 flower and bracts of a deep claret-red, shading off into rose, with 

 yellow at base. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; on the rocky slopes of Table Mountain behind 

 Klassenboscb, about 1000 ft., Welby in Herb. Bolus, 41)87 ! Only two specimens 

 were seen. Tulbagh Div.; Winterhoek Mountain, 3500 (t., Mario th, 1636 ex 

 Bolus MS. ! 



XLVI. BELLARDIA, All. 



Calycc ovoid, somewhat inflated, shortly 4-lobed, persistent. 

 Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx-tube, subcylindrical ; limb 

 bilabiate ; upper lip galeate, erect, concave, entire, rather shorter 

 than the lower, narrow ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, middle lobe 

 the smallest ; palate bigibbous, prominent. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 lying in the hollow of the irpper corolla-lip ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers free among themselves, 2 -celled, oblong, all fertile ; cells 

 mucronulate at the base, distinct, equal, parallel. Ovary 2-celIed ; 

 ovules numerous ; style exceeding the stamens, exsertcd or nearly bo, 

 curved downwards near the apex ; stigma short, somewhat thickened, 

 bifid. Capsule ovoid, turgid, somewhat compressed, loculicidal ; 

 placentas thick, bifid. Seeds numerous, small, longitudinally ribbed, 

 the ribs slender. 



An annual herb, viscid-pubescent, erect ; leaves opposite, simple, dentate or 

 incise; flowers sessile, spicate. 



The colour of the flowers is usually but not always yellow, but perhaps it h 

 variable in the following species. 



BiSTRiB. Species 2, natives of Southern Europe, tlic Orient, ani Africa from 

 north to south j introduced into South America. 



^ 1. B. Trixago (All. Fl. Pedem. i 61) ; an erect herb, annual, 



E e 2 



