﻿446 GESNEBACE^ (Clarke). \^8treptocarpus. 



slender^ compound, up to 3 in. in diam., with 17 flowers (some few- 

 flowered) ; bracts at the divisions i-|- in. long, oblong ; pedicels up 

 to 1 in. long ; calyx-segments ^-^ in. long, oblong-linear, with many 

 multicellular often gland-tipped hairs, each calyx-lobe ending in a 

 hemispherical gland; corolla ^ in. long; tube -| in. long, cylindric, 

 straight ; limb slightly oblique ; filaments ligulate, glabrous ; pollen 

 globose ; pistil with many long multicellular often gland-tipped 

 hairs ; capsule 1 in. long. 



Eastern Eegion : Tembuland ; Engcobo Mountains, 4500 ft., Bolus! 

 Griqualand East ; Maclear, 4500 ft., Bolus! 



21. S. prolixa (C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 151) ; 

 stemless, with one leaf 11 by 3 in., and 1 or 2 much smaller ; leaf 

 hardly petioled, oblong, crenate, with many long white multicellular 

 hairs, especially on the 22 pairs of nerves ; cyme very lax, slender ; 

 peduncle 8-10 in. long ; primary branches 4-5 in. long ; pedicels 

 1 in. long, not numerous ; calyx-lobes -^\j in. long, linear, with short 

 scabrous hairs, each lobe ending in a hemispheric gland surrounded 

 by longer hairs; corolla f in. long, purple-blue when dry, very 

 slender ; tube i in. long, linear ; limb very oblique with very 

 unequal lobes ; pollen globose ; pistil thinly clothed with eglandular 

 hairs ; capsule 1^ in. long, slender. 



Eastern Eegion : Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 859 ! 



22. S. hirtinervis ( C. B. Clarke) ; stem 0-1 in. long, carryiag 

 3 leaves; leaves 3-5 by 2 in., snbsessile or narrowed to a very short 

 petiole, coarsely toothed, very shaggy ; nerves 10-15 pairs on the 

 upper surface, each nerve densely clothed with two lines of hairs 

 pointed to tlie midrib; peduncles 3-5 in. long, hairy ; cyme com- 

 pound (in the Griqualand example only 2-flowered) ; calyx-lobes 

 |~i m. long, oblong-linear, hairy, with few hairs gland-tipped; 

 corolla 1-1 in. long, violet-blue when dry ; tube -|- in. long, cylindric, 

 slightly dilated at the top, abruptly curved near the base; pistil 

 very hairy ; filaments glabrous, dilated in the upper part ; pollen 

 globose. 



Eastkrn Region: Griqnaland East; Chwenkwa, 3700ft., Bolus! 



Theaboye description is drawn ebiefly from Nyasaland examples ; the Griqua- 

 land piece IS a scrap, but the corolla and the marbled indumentum of the leaf 

 match. 



Alao in Tropical Africa. 



Hybrids and imperfectly Jcnoion species. 



1. S. achimeniflora, Journ. Hort. ser. 3, xl. 479. A garden 

 hybrid. 



2. S. azureus, Andre in Ecv. Hoit. 1889, 398. A garden hybrid. 



3. S. biflora, Pucci in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. ser. 2, 1890, 812 cum 

 tab S. hifioro—polyanthus, Duchartre in Fl. Ser. t. 2429; 

 J^ichols. Diet. Card. iii. 516. S. polyanthus, var. grandiflora, 

 ingelr. in L'Hortic. Fran?. 1859, 129, t. 12. A crarden hybrid. 



