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and forming ovoid tips to the flower-branches ; pedicels }—3 lin. 
long, pubescent ; calyx obconic-tubular, somewhat acute at the base, 
harshly puberulous outside, puberulous within ; tube 34—4 lin. long ; 
upper tooth slightly spreading, 14-24 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, 
elliptic-oblong or slightly obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, cilio- 
late ; lateral and lower teeth subequal, 14—2 lin. long, flat (not 
bristle-like), gradually tapering from the }-lin. broad base to an 
acute point, ciliate ; corolla “ pink and white” (Wood), “ purple” 
(Cooper), pubescent nearly to the base outside, puberulous within ; 
tube 3-1 in. long, nearly straight, slender at the basal half, 
widening to about } in. in vertical diameter at the compressed 
subtruncate mouth; upper lip with 3 small lobules ; middle 
lobule 3 lin. long and broad, suborbicular or subquadrate ? ; lateral 
lobules much smaller, rounded ; lower lip deflexed, 2}—3 lin. long, 
1 lin. broad, boat-shaped, obtuse ; stamens exserted, unequal ; © 
upper pair inserted 1—} in. below the mouth of the tube, 5-6 lin. 
long, free, flat, ciliate on the basal part ; lower pair inserted at the 
base of the lower lip, 34-4 lin. long, exserted beyond the upper 
pair, with their filaments united to the apex, glabrous; stigma 
minutely bifid. Hemizygia Cooperi, Brig. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2™ sér. iii. 992. 
Katanari Recion: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 1015 ‘ 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Mohlamba Range, 5000-606) ft., Sutherland! edge 
of a ravine near Van Reenens Pass, 5500 ft., and banks of the Tugela, 4000 ft., 
Wood, 3573 (Natal Herb. 949)! under shade on a rocky hill near Berlin Mission 
Station, Wood, 3554! 
4. 0. foliosus (N. E. Br.) ; stems woody at the base, pubescent 
or pilose above, very leafy ; leaves ascending-spreading, 2-3 in. 
long, 1-14 in. broad at the middle, broadly lanceolate or elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute to obtuse, cuneately narrowed into a petiole 
1-1} lin. long, shortly serrate on the margin, slightly shining, 
varying from rather thinly puberulous on both sides, with rather 
longer pubescence on the prominent nerves beneath, to softly pilose 
with long hairs on both sides ; panicle 6 in. or more long, with 2-3 
pairs of ascending-spreading branches 3--6 in. long, sometimes 
reduced to a simple raceme, somewhat harshly pubescent ; whorls 
1-3 in, apart, 2-flowered ; upper and terminal bracts 4-3 in. long, 
1-1 in, broad, very spreading, lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the 
base, rather thin, pubescent along the midrib beneath and ciliate, 
otherwise glabrous, apparently carmine or rosy-purple, deciduous or 
perhaps the upper persistent ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, pubescent ; 
calyx-tube 1 (in fruit about 4) in. long, campanulate, somewhat 
harshly puberulous on the nerves ; upper tooth {—} in. long, 4} in. 
broad, orbicular-ovate or transverse, very obtuse ; lateral and lower 
teeth unequal, bristle-like, the lower pair } in. long; corolla 
apparently white, puberulous on the back of the upper and lower 
lips, elsewhere glabrous ; tube } in. long, compressed and dilated at 
the upper part, truncate at the mouth or upper lip, = has a 
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