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Genlisea.] lbntibdlakie.e (Sfcapf). 437 



1. Gr. hispidula (Stapf) ; leaves numerous, blades obovate-spathu- 

 ate, 31-7 Jiii. long, 2-dl lin. broad, gradually passing into the 

 long whitish petiole, 4-15 lin. long; utricles on sometimes very 

 long stalks (up to 10 lin.), tube 7-8 lin. long, twisted arms over 

 10 lin. long ; peduncle erect, straight or flexuous, simple or branched, 

 up to 1 ft. high, quite glabrous or with a few spreading bristles in 

 the upper part ; raceme 3-5-flowered ; flowers remote ; bracts and 

 bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 1} lin. long, more or less minutely 

 hispidulous, lowest bracts barren ; pedicels filiform, 3-5 lin. long in 

 flower, at length up to 10 lin. long, more or less hispid witli yelJow 

 bristles, particularly in the upper part, rarely glabrous ; calyx- 

 segments lanceolate, subaeuminate or acuminate, subequal, lJ-2 lin. 

 long, minutely hispidulous ; corolla purple with yellow spots ou the 

 palate, 4-5 lin. long, upper lip ovate, obtuse, If lin. long ; lower lip 

 2|- lin. long, 3-lobed ; lobes short and broad, almost equal, scarcely 

 undulate, palate much raised, lower than the upper lip, scarcely 

 gibbous, spur cylindric from a moderately widened base, 3 J lin. long, 

 obtuse or truncate, sparingly and very minutely hispidulous ; fila- 

 ments curved, very unequally widened upwards, not quite } lin. long; 

 anthers a i[n. long; ovary densely pubescent above the glabrous 

 base ; capsule more or less hairy in the upper part, globose, up to 

 2 lin. in diam., distinctly circumscissile ; seeds obliquely ovoid or 

 almost triangular in profile, up to I lin, long ; embryo hippocrepi- 

 form. G. africana, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. Ii6(the Magalies- 

 ierg specimen) ; Earn, in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 93 {in part). 



Kalahari Eegion : Trausraal; Magalies Berg, Burke, ii82 ! Zetjher, 1425 ! 

 Bosh Veld, Buche»Jiouts Kloof Spruit, Rehmann, 4789 ! near Pretoria, Kirk, 

 33 ! near Spitzkop Gold-mine, Wilms, 1242a ! 



Easteen Eegion: Natal; without precise locality, Sc?iZec/iier.' 



Also in Nyasaland. 



Kamienski indicates G. africana,aho from the following localities : Transvaal j 

 Houtboscb, Rehmann, 5992 ! Sijitzkop, near Lydenburg, IVihm, 1242 ! and 

 Pondoland; among stones by the Imkereni River, i>ac/t?Hann, 1290 and 1715. 

 I have not seen these specimens, bud assume they belong to G. hispidula. 



Ordek XCVIII. GESWERACE^. 



(By C. B. Clarke.) 



Flowers bisexual, irregular. Calyx inferior (in the Cape species), 

 small, gamosepalous, persistent, 5-lobed. Corolla gamopetalous ; 

 tube long or short ; limb 5-lobed, more or less oblique. Stamens 

 usually 2 or 4, on the corolla-tube. Ovary 1-celIed ; placentas 2, 

 parietal, much intruded; ovules numerous. Cajtmle loculicidal ; 

 seeds numerous. 



DisxBiB. The Order contains 550 species in the Old World, 350 in the New. 

 There is but one genus in the Cape Flora, which is known from Scrophulariacea 

 by its 1-celled ovary, and the long capsule with twisted valve*. 



