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216 BYTTNERIACEE (Harv.) [Mahernw. 
viscidulous ; branches with a few scattered, appressed, stellate hairs ; 
leaves on short petioles, quite glabrous, oval or oblong oval, obtuse, cu- 
neate at base, serrato-dentate ; stipules ovate-acuminate, equalling the 
petioles ; peduncles much longer than the leaves, roughish ; bracts 
connate beyond the middle or cucullate ; calyx campanulate, either 
glabrous or viscoso-puberulous, or tomentose, with deltoid-acute lobes 
half as long as the broadly oval petals; ovary oblong, albo-tomentose. 
M. verncata, E. & Z.! 393 (non Burch.) 
Var. 8. cucullata ; bracts confluent into a cup-like cucullus, Drege, 
No. 7311. M. saccifera, Turcz. Mose. 1858. p. 219. 
Var. y. tomentosa; bracts cucullate ; calyx tomentose. Jf. tomen- 
tosa, Wendl. 
Has. Fields near the Zwartkops R. £. & Z./ Hassagais’ Kloof, Zeyher / (Herb. 
Sond., T.C.D.) ‘ 
Distinctly shrubby, sub-erect or spreading, a foot high, branched ; glabrous in 
every part, except occasionally a woolliness on the calyx and a few scattered stellate 
hairs on the young branches. The whole plant shines, as if varnished. Leaves 
8-1 inch long. The bracts vary in degree of coherence, and are sometimes altoge- 
ther confluent, as in var. B. 
23. M. veronicefolia (E. & Z.! 392); suffruticose, decumbent, thinly 
sprinkled with stipitate, stellate hairs ; stems filiform; leaves distant, 
shortly petiolate, glabrous above, sparsely stellate at the margin and 
on the lower surface, oblong, obtuse, eroso-crenate, glanduloso-cilio- 
late; stipules ovato-cuspidate, longer than the petioles, ciliolate ; pe- 
duneles longer than the leaves; bracts connate beyond the middle, 
ovate-acuminate ; calyx campanulate, glandular and stellate, with del- 
toid-acuminate lobes half as long as the broadly oval petals; ovary 
stellato-pubescent ; capsule oblong, tuberculate. 
= oD) Limestone hills in Uitenhage and Albany, #. § Z.! (Herb. Hook., Sond., 
Stems many, 1-2 feet long, branching. Stems, margins, and underside of leaves, 
peduncles, and calyces, are sprinkled with glandshaped tubercles crowned with a 
starry tuft of short, white, deciduous hairs; the glandular base is persistent. 
Leaves 1-1} inches long, } inch wide, the petioles scarcely } inch long. Peduncles 
2 inches long. Flowers } inch. 
24 M. abyssinica (Hochst! Pl. Schimp. No. 320); suffruticose, 
_ decumbent, thinly stellato-pubescent; stems filiform; leaves shortly 
ss #petiolate, oblong, coarsely toothed, obtuse at both ends, or sub-acute, the 
«Younger ones fasciculate-pubescent, the older glabrescent; stipules cut or 
ifid, shorter than the petioles ; peduncles shorter than the leaves ; 
connate below; calyx deeply 5—cleft, with hairy, ovate-acute 
g as the narrow-obovate petals; capsule oblong, stellato- 
is. MM. dentata, Harv. in Herb, aes 
aalrivier, Burke § Zeyher, No. 120. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
me lia, but less woody, more hairy, and with a different 
Lex yearn ‘narrower petioles, shorter peduncles and 
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