430 PRIMULACEZ (Harvey). | Anagallis. 
lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 lin. long; corolla nearly 
twice as long as the calyx, deeply lobed, white ; lobes lanceolate, 
obtuse ; stamens about 1+ lin. long; style 1 lin. long, filiform. 
EASTERN Re@ion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1609! Palmiet River, Umgena, 
Gerrard, 741! near the sea, Umtwalumi, Gerrard §~ McKen, and without 
precise locality, Sanderson, 685 ! 
II. SAMOLUS, Linn. 
Calyx half-superior, 5-fid. Corolla perigynous, salver- or bell- 
shaped, deciduous; limb 5-partite, with 5 narrow scales (abortive 
stamens ?) rising from the mouth of the tube and alternating with 
the corolla-lobes and stamens. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; 
anthers basifixed. Ovary half-inferior, many-seeded ; style filiform. 
Capsule opening above by 5 valves. DC. Prodr, viii. 72. 
Herbs of both hemispheres, growing in marshy places, generally near the sea. 
Radical leaves petioled, cauline alternate, diminishing upwards or reduced to 
scales. Flowers racemose or panicled. Name, derivation obscure. 
Softly herbaceous ; stems subsimple, leafy ; pedicels naked 
at the base, with a bracteole in the middle oat ... (1) Valerandi. 
Rigid; stem much-branched ; branches erect, rod-like, 
rough; upper leaves subulate; pedicels without a 
medial bracteole (2) porosus. 
1. §. Valerandi (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i, 171); radical leaves 
numerous, oval or obovate, obtuse, tapering at the base into long 
petioles ; stem erect, simple or paniculately branched, terete, fistular ; 
cauline leaves diminishing upwards, obovate, subsessile; flowers 
racemose or panicled; pedicels (often knee-bent) bearing a small 
narrow lanceolate bracteole in the middle; ealyx half as long as the 
corolla, its lobes triangular, subacute; stamens included ; scales 
subulate, as long as the stamens; valves of capsule not reflexed. 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 176; Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 73; 
Pax § Knuth in Engl. Pflanzen’. Primul. 337. 
Soutu AFRica: without locality, Wallich ! 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 25! Cape Flats near 
Doornhoogte, Wolley Dod, 679! King Williamstown Div.; near Kei Road, 
2000 ft., Schlechter, 6131! Uitenhage Div.; near the Lead-mine, Burchell, 
4489! Port Elizabeth Div. ; sand-hills near Port Elizabeth, Drége ! 
CrentTRAL RecGion: Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Miss Bowker! Albert 
Div., Cooper, 1779! 
KaranarRi ReGion: Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1794! 
Griqua Town, Burchell, 1873 ! Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2822! Bechuana- 
land; near the sources of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2511! 
EastExN REGION: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 314! 465! Mount Hdgecombe, 
Wood, 1100! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 164! 
Found in most parts of the world in wet spongy ground. Stems 1-2 ft. high, 
the upper half occupied by the long simple or branched raceme. Leaves bright 
green and glossy, soft to the touch, the radical ones, including the petiole, 2-4 in. 
long, ?-14 in. wide. : 
