﻿420 SCEOPHULARIACE^ (Hiem). [Bellardia. 



more or less pubescent, simple or somewhat branched, |— 1|^ ft. high ; 

 stem firm, beset with pallid spreading or deflexed hairs, minutely 

 glandular, subtetragonou8 above, subterete below, solid, pithy, 

 leafy ; branches ascending ; leaves opposite, oblong, lanceolate or 

 linear, obtuse, not very much narrowed at the base, sessile or the 

 lowest shortly petiolate, strongly and obtusely toothed, scabrid- 

 hispidulous, viscid-glandular, grass-green when alive, somewhat 

 dusky when dry, -|-2i in. long, |~|- in. broad, mostly equalling or 

 exceeding the internodes ; flowers sessile, i-f in. long, numerous, 

 quadrifariously arranged ; spike terminal, dense, leafy or bracteate, 

 oblong, elongated in fruit, f-5 in. long ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, 

 dilated or cordate at the base, equalling or exceeding the calyx, 

 entire or few-toothed, often acuminate, obtuse, viscid-hairy; calyx 

 ovoid, somewhat inflated, tetragonous, viscid-pubescent, ^~} in. 

 long, shortly 4-cleft ; lobes deltoid, pointed ; corolla usually golden- 

 yellow, i- J in. long ; tube 4-i in. long ; Tapper lip narrow, ^-f in. 

 long, somewhat arched, glandular-pubescent outside ; lower lip 

 dilated, bifid, f-i in. long, middle lobe the smallest ; palate elevated, 

 double ; anthers pendulous, blunt at the apex, more or less bearded 

 with jointed subglandalar hairs or at length glabrous; style hispid- 

 pubescent, not very slender, exceeding the stamens, decurved towards 

 the apex ; stigma somewhat thickened, obovoid, bifid; capsule 

 ovoid, coriaceous, pubescent, obtuse or shortly acuminate, |-| in. 

 long, turgid, somewhat compressed, bisulcate ; seeds numerous, small, 

 dusky, ovoid, curved, longitudinally costate. Wettstein in Engl. Sf 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 102, fig. 44 E. Bartsia Trixago, Linn. 

 /S>. PI. ed. i. 602 ; Sihth. 4- Sm. Fl. Grieca, vi. 68, t. 585. Buchnera 

 africana, Linn. Pi. Mar. Afr. 13, and Amosn. Acad. vi. 89. 

 Rhinanthus sp., Linn. Mant. alt. 421. Trixago apula, Stev. in Mem. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. vi. 4 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 543. Bhinanthus 

 capensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. ii. 405 ; Thunh. Prodr. 98, and 

 Fl. Cap. ed. Scliulf. 457. Bartsia capensis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii- 

 773; Earv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. i. 254; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 

 833. Bartschia Trixago, 0. Kunize, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 230. 



Coast Region, from 500 to 60OO ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Dreg«' 

 1336c. Tulbagh Div. ; Tnlbagh, Pappe ! Savon, ScUeehter, 10677 ! Paarl Div. ; 

 Faarl Ber^, Brege, 1336b ! between Paarl and French Hoek, Drege, 1336/. Cape 

 Div.; hills and flats around Cape Town, Tlmnherg ! Burchell, 83! Bunhwy, 

 151! Bolus, 8029! Wallich! Krauss, 13^1 Harvey, 524! Dri>ge, 1336fl, 

 }V alley Dod, las I 6S3 ! ScMechter, 97 ! EckTon, 316 ! 681 or 68? ! Simons Bay, 

 n right! MacGiUivray,570\ Caledon Div. ; by the Zondereinde Eiver, Drege, 

 1336e! Zeyher, 1316! Genadendal, Kolhing ! Swellendam Div., Zeyher . 

 btockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, Galpin, 1730 ! Queenstown Div. ; Winter Berg, 

 Mrs. Barher, 237 ! o> ^ , •* 



Centbal Hegion, 4500 ft. -. Somerset Div. ; summit of the Bosch Berg and on 

 Krmntjes Hoogte, MacOivan, 1652 ! Murraysburg Div. ; Koudeveld Mountain, 

 Bolus, 1249 ! Molteno Div. ,- Molteno, Kuntze. ,^ „ 



-.kL^T^^ Region : Little Namaqualand ; near Ezelsfontein and on Roodeber?, 

 rf50(>4000 it Brege, 1336cl ! Kamies Berg, Zeyher, 1245 ! ,„^^ ,, 



bSuI'^^^'^ ' '' '^''■''"^^■" ^'^- ; "ear Gala in the Xalanga district, 4700 ft., 



Distribution as for the genus. 



