﻿Stre2Hocarpus.'\ gesneeage^ (Clarke). 44 i 



Eastern Region: Natal; Robinson! Sanderson! Zululund; Isibundini, 

 Say garth in Herb. Wood, 7465 ! Qudeui, 6000 ft., Davies, 40! {in Herb. Wood, 

 7932!) 



6. S. Saundersii (Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5251); 12-18 in. high; 

 leaf 1 (permanent cotyledon) basal, sessile, flat on the ground, 

 14 by 12 in., very broadly elliptic, with short hairs on both surfaces, 

 crenate ; scapes 1-5 from the axil, sometimes carrying a small leaf 

 near the base ; cyme repeatedly divided, often with 40-80 flowers, 

 hairy ; bracts at the divisions {- in, long, linear ; pedicels l-} in. 

 long ; calyx-lobes |^ in. long, narrow-oblong, with multicellular hairs 

 not gland-tipped; corolla pale blue with purple blotches in tho 

 throat ; tube | in. long, somewhat funnel-shaped upwards, a little 

 curved ; limb oblique, with two lobes much the shorter ; filaments 

 dilated in the middle, densely covered by capitate short glands at the 

 top ; pollen oblong-ellipsoid ; pistil grey with densely placed multi- 

 cellular hairs, none or few gland -tipped ; capsule 2\ by -jV m- 

 Fl. Ser. t. 1802 ; Eegel, Gartenfl. t. 826 ; N. E. Br. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1875, iii. 375 ; Nichols. Diet. Gard. iii. 516 ; C. B. Clarke 

 in no. Monogr. Phan. v. 150, excl. var.(i; Fritsch in Engl. 4 Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 151. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; cultivated specimens ! 



7 S tubiflos (C. B. Clarke) ; leaf 4-7 in. broad, rather smaller 

 than in S. Saundersii, Hook. f. ; primary nerves more numerous and 

 closer together ; corolla-tube f in. long, subcylindnc, rather narrower 

 than that of S. Saundersii, scarcely funnel-shaped at the top; pollen 

 globose; otherwise as C. Saundersii, Hook f. C. Coalmen, C. B. 

 Clarke in DC Monogr. Phan. v. 150, partly; Engl, m Engl. Pji. 

 Ost-Afr. G. 362. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; luanda, TF.oi, 752 ! Zululaud? Ingoma, ffm-arcZ, 

 191! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



8 S Wendlandii (Sprenger in Dammann, Cat. 1890-91, SO with 

 descripi.) ; leaf attaining 30 by 24 im, -enate closely hajry 

 peduncle! ft long; inflorescence 6-8 in. ong, 30-flowcred calyx- 

 bbes' in lone, linear, with many multicellular hairs not glaod- 



!;^:di ::.r%iue ^^^^,}v^^ IL^^^ 



slightly --f.^/^?;f;t;^?^'p,L gioro^ densel/grey 



slightly glandular at the J^P ' f^ ^^^^ „^t gland -tipped ; capsule 

 hairy with suberect multiceiiuia,r ud^i -, ^^ V)0- Joimi 



2f in. long. W. Watson in Gard. Chron. 1891 x.. 5J0 , Journ. 

 Hort. ser. 3, xxviii. 223,^^. 37; Bot. Macj. t. lUi . 



EASTERN region: Zululaud. TFood,3944! ^ c^H^aied s,^^ 



A „ ni-jnr from Uixisoya m Aulalana, iuu(>- 



With this species is arranged a P f "^ /^^™ ^^^^ fxi„. lou^^ the tube ^'g in. 

 2000 ft., T7cod, 5719; in this the j^^' ^^ ^ iV^^of S. TT^iiandii ; the^B^all 

 broad, the calyx-lobes J m. long. ^^^^J^ 

 calyx and corolla bring it nearer S. tubxjtog. 



