426 PLUMBAGINEE (Wright), [ Vogelia, 
with 5 arms stigmatose on the inner side, Capsule cireumscissile at 
the base, and splitting upwards into 5 valves, 
More or less scaly shrubs or undershrubs; leaves alternate, entire; flowers 
in dense terminal spikes ; bracts and bracteoles small, 
Distris, A second species in India and a third in Socotra, 
1. V. africana (Lam. Ill. ii, 148, t. 149); stems slender, 
woody, much branched, 2 ft. or more high, sulcate, glaucous ; 
leaves alternate, often distant and few, fleshy, broadly cuneate, 
rounded, emarginate or cordate at the apex, sometimes mueronate, 
more or iess coated with calcareous granules, up to 9 lin. long and 
6 lin. wide, tapering into the 4 lin, long petiole ; flowers patent ; 
calyx-segments ovate, abruptly acuminate, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. wide ; 
corolla-tube subcylindrieal, 4 lin. long; lobes cuneate or obcordate, 
cuspidate in the sinus, 2 lin, long, 14 lin. broad ; filaments very 
slender; anthers } lin. long, sagittate ; ovary oblong, acumimate, 
1 lin. long; style 32 lin. long including the 1 lin. long arms, 
spreadingly hairy ; capsule longer than the persistent calyx. Boiss. 
tn DC. Prodr. xii. 696; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Docum. 90; Harv. 
Thes. Cap. ii. 62, t. 198; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 635. 
V. sp., Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 184. Dyerophytum africanum, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 394, 
Western ReGion : Little Namaqualand; between Buffels (Koussies) River 
and Silverfontein, 2000 ft., Drége! near Spektakel, 800 ft., Bolws, 685! and 
without precise locality, Wyley ! 
CenTRat REGION: Calvinia Diy.; between Lospers Flats and Springbok 
Kuil River, Zeyher, 1481! 
Also in Angola and Hereroland, 
OrperR LXXXI, PRIMULACEA. 
(By W. H. Harvey, with additions by C. H. Wricut.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, usually regular. Calyx inferior or half- 
superior, 5-fid or 5-partite. Corolla rotate, campanulate or salver- 
shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted in the eorolla-tube and 
opposite the lobes, often alternating with staminodes; filaments 
filiform or subulate, short ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovary superior or half-inferior, 1-celled, with a free-basal placenta ; 
style terminal; stigma undivided; ovules numerous, semi-ana- 
tropous. Capsule circumscissile or bursting by valves. Seeds 
impressed in the placenta; embryo straight, terete; endosperm 
fleshy or horny. 
Herbs usually perennial, rarely suffrutescent; leaves radical, opposite or 
alternate ; flowers solitary and axillary, or in umbels, racemes or panicles. 
Distris. Genera 22; species about 300, in temperate regicns of the Northern 
Hemisphere, rare in the Southern or in the tropics, 
