South African Material of the Genua Cyphia, Berg. 467 



long, slender, terete, glabrous ; lobes 1-125 mm. long, ovate, acute, 

 glabrous. Corolla-segments 7-8 cm. long, lanceolate above, becoming 

 linear in the lower half, obtuse or subacute, glabrous. Stamens more 

 than half as long as the corolla ; filaments free, 3-4 mm. long, linear, 

 slightly broadened at the base, and very finely ciliated on the broadened 

 portion ; anthers 15 mm. long, linear. Style 2*5-3 mm. long, com- 

 pressed, glabrous ; stigma capitate. 



South-western Eegion. — Port Elizabeth Division : Redhouse, 

 May, Patterson, 466 !. 



Central Region. — Murraysburg Division : Mountain slopes at 

 CWtzier's Kraal, 4500 ft., March, Tyson, 236 !. Somerset East Divi- 

 sion : Stony places on the banks of the Klijn Visch River, MacOwan, 

 2790 !. Graaff Reinet Division : Cave Mountain near Graaff Reinet, 

 45< M I ft., March, Bolus, 13 !. Queenstown Division : Near Queenstown, 

 3000 ft., February, Flanagan, 2879 !. 



Eastern Mountain Region. — Albert Division : Burghersdoi'p, 

 February, PococJc, 127 !. Aliwal North Division : Dry stony mountain 

 sides, c. 4600 ft., April-May, Eland's Hoek, near Aliwal North, 

 Bolus, 10,489!. Basutoland : Leribe, c. 6000 ft., January, Dieterlen, 

 945!. 



A plant 1-2 ft. high ; flowers light purple ; a creeper (fide F. Bolus) ; 

 flowers pink (fide Madame Dieterlen). 



19. C. digitata (Willd., Sp. PL, I, 953). 



A twiner. Stems glabrous, minutely puberulous, pubescent, or 

 more rarely shortly and softly pilose. Leaves subsessile or shortly 

 petioled, digitately lobed almost to the base ; segments *3-5 - 5 cm. 

 long, 1-4 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, glabrous. Petiole sometimes up 

 to 7 mm. long, glabrous. Inflorescence racemose, not distinctly marked 

 off from the leafy stem, many-flowered ; flowers usually erect, but 

 frequently horizontal. Bracts 8-1 "5 cm. long, 3-5-lobed, glabrous ; 

 lobes linear, acute or obtuse, glabrous ; bracteoles close beneath the 

 calyx, 1-1*5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute, glabrous. Calyx-tube 

 1*5 mm. long, campanulate, glabrous; lobes 2-3 mm. long, ovate, 

 acute, glabrous. Corolla-hibe 5-7*5 mm. long, glabrous ; lobes 3-5 mm. 

 long, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. 

 Stamens more than \ as long as the corolla, very rarely less ; fila- 

 ments 3*5-5 mm. long, united at the base, linear, gradually broadened 

 below, pilose ; anthers 2'5 mm. long, oblong or linear in outline, 

 ciliate on the back. Style 2*5-4 mm. long, terete or subterete, 

 glabrous ; stigma capitate. 



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