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branched, quadrangular. Leaves opposite, distant, linear-lanceolate, 
13-24 inches long, 1-2 lines wide, longer or shorter than the internodes, 
thickish in substance, with immersed veins. Peduncles 1-flowered, from 
the axils of the upper leaves, ebracteate, shorter than the leaf, but longer 
than the calyx. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, keeled. Corolla white, turning 
purplish-black or bluish in drying, its limb about equalling the slender, 
pubescent tube. Stamens included ; filaments villous; anthers 1-celled. 
Ovary straight, but capsule very oblique, 2-celled, with many ovules 
on large, fungous, axile placentae. 
A handsome plant, with the aspect of a Phlox. Four other species 
of the genus are known: one of them East Indian, two from Abyssinia, 
and one from Madagascar. They are probably root-parasites, like so 
many of the nigrescent Scrophularinee. 
Fig. 1, Rhamphicarpa'tubulosa ; the natural size. Fig. 2, calyx; 3, stamens, as at- 
tached to the tube of the corolla, a fragment of which, laid open, is also shown; 4, 
pistil; 5, capsule; 6, section of the same; all the latter figures enlarged. 
LVIIl. NYCTERINIA NATALENSIS, Bernh. (Serophularinee.) 
N. Natalensis: caule simplici ascendenti incurvo piloso, foliis lanceo- 
lato-linearibus obtusiusculis integerrimis glabris coriaceis, floralibus 
-late lanceolatis calyces subsequantibus, spica elongata densa multiflora. 
Bernh. in Flora, 1844, p. 334. Benth. in DC, Prod., x. p. 348. 
Has.—Port Natal, Krauss. Claremont Flats, plentiful, Sanderson. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Drscr.—Many stemmed ; stems 12-14 inches long, incurved, sub- 
erect, simple or nearly so, roughly pilose with reflexed, succulent hairs. 
Leaves scattered, longer than the internodes, 1-2 inches long, 2-3 lines 
wide, coriaceous and glabrous, obtuse or subacute, quite entire, the 
margin minutely revolute. Bracts or floral leaves lanceolate, the lower- 
most often without axillary flowers, and longer than the upper, which 
are slightly shorter than the calyces they enclose. Tube of the corolla 
2 inches long, velvetty pubescent; limb ‘brilliant white on the upper 
surface, rich crimson or maroon on the lower” (Sanderson). The whole 
plant turns black in drying. 
I figure this beautiful plant, as it has received a name, but fear that 
it is merely a variety of VV. maritima, which differs by its erect stems 
and longer bracts. In Mr. Sanderson’s specimens many of the lower 
bracts are barren, closely inbricating each other, and longer and more 
acute than the fertile ones. 
Fig. 1, Nycterinia Natalensis ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a section of the corolla, 
laid open and showing the stamens; 3, one of the fertile stamens; 4, calyx and its bract ; 
5, calyx-limb, laid open; the latter figures magnified. 
LIX. CYCLOPTYCHIS VIRGATA, E. Mey. ( Crucifere. 
C. virgata: suffruticosa, erecta, glaberrima, glauca, ramis virgatis 
teretibus, foliis coriaceis lanceolatis mucronulatis, racemis elongatis, 
