1038 LOGANIACE# (Prain and Cummins). [ Gomphostigma. 
1. G. incanum (Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1472); a spreading 
divaricately branching undershrub ; leaves opposite and in crowded. 
axillary fascicles, elliptic or ovate, subobtuse, densely stellately 
lepidote on both surfaces, margin entire, 1—2 lin. long, 4—-} lin. 
wide ; racemes 1-3 in. long, rhachis glabrescent ; bracts wide-ovate, 
connate round rhachis ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, the lowest bracteo- 
late, stellate-lepidote below and glabrescent above the bracteoles, 
upper pedicels glabrescent ; calyx 1 lin. long ; lobes ovate ; corolla 
4 lin. long ; filaments 14 lin. long: 
Centrat Recion: Colesberg Div. ; near the Orange River, Knobel ! 
2. G. scoparioides (Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xvi. 53); an 
erect virgately branching shrub; leaves opposite, very rarely 
fascicled, linear, acute, rarely subspathulate, subobtuse, glabrous 
or sparingly grey-lepidote, entire or rarely remotely obscurely 
toothed, 1-14 in. long, 14-1} lin. wide, gradually diminishing 
upwards ; racemes 2-8 in. long, rhachis glabrous ;_ bracts leafy 
below, gradually smaller upwards, free ; pedicels 14-24 lin. long, brac- 
teolate, glabrous ; calyx 1-1} lin. long ; lobes oblong ; corolla white, 
3-34 lin. long ; filaments 1} lin. long ; capsule 3—4 lin. long. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. x. 434; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 511. 
wp ety virgata, Linn. f. Suppl. 123; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
Coast Reaton : Uitenhage Div. ; by the Sundays River and Coega River, Drége, 
8264a! Queenstown Div. ; beside watercourses at Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 
1667! by the river near Shiloh, Bawr, 913! Zwartkei River, Baur, 51! British 
Caffraria, Mrs. Hutton, Cooper, 344! 
CenrraL Recron : Prince Albert Div. ; by the Gamka River, Drége, 8264b. 
Somerset Div. ; near Somerset East, Bowker, 152! 178! by the Little Fish River, 
MacOwan, 1148! Graaff Reinet Div. ; by the Sundays River, 2500 ft., Bolus, 
62! Murraysburg Div. ; banks of streams near Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Zyson, 30! 
Richmond Div., Burke! Albert Div., Cooper, 1870! Hopetown Div.; by the 
Orange River, Burchell, 2657! Prieska Div. ; banks of the Orange River, Burchell, 
1634! by the Brak River, Burchell, 2122! 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; Orange River, near Verleptpram, 
Drége, 8264c. 
Katanart Reaion: Orange River Colony ; Cooper, 973! 2869! Basutoland ; 
Cooper, 2870! Transvaal; near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1079! near Middelburg, 
Wilms, 1079a! Magalies River, Burtt Davy, 166! Daspoort, near Pretoria, 
Miss Leendertz, 587 ! : 
Eastern Rearon : Transkei ; Kreilis country, Bowker ! Griqualand East ; banks 
of the Umzimkulu River, near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., yson, 2713 ! and in MacOwan 
Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1224! Natal; Mohlamba Range, 5000-6000 ft., Sutherland ! 
Biggers Berg, 4000 ft., Sutherland ! banks of the Umnweni River, 4000 ft., Wood, 
ee near Newcastle, Wilms, 2174! and without precise locality, 
errard, 193 ! 
iI, NUXIA, Lam. ; | 
Calyx shortly 4-fid ; tube campanulate ; lobes subtriangular, sub-_ 
--valvate. Corolla 4-fid ; tube cylindric, included, circumscissile above - 
“the persistent base; throat partially occluded by a ring of hairs 
