272 LXXXVII. SCROPHULARIACER. 
shortly open in front; the limb obsolete, of very small, tooth- 
like lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, under the galea; fila- 
ments glabrous; anthers 1-celled, muticous. Ovary ovate, 
2-celled, with 2 axile placentas in each cell; style clavate and 
incurved at the apex. Capsules subglobose, fleshy, at length 
deliquescing.—DC. Prod. x. p. 505. 
A rosy-red, thick-stemmed root-parasite, a great part of the stem under- 
ground, imbricated with leaf-scales. Spikes dense, ovate. It varies either 
glabrous or densely woolly.—Found throughout the colony. 
Tripp 9. GeRaRDIE®. (Gen. 38-41.) 
38. GRADERIA, Benth. 
Calyx tubular-bellshaped, 5-fid. Corolla-tube exserted, 
widened upwards; the limb 5-fid, lobes spreading, entire. 
Stamens didynamous, included; anthers free, with divergent, 
arched-oblong, mucronulate cells, 1 of each anther narrower, 
empty. Style thickened and tongue-shaped at apex, incurved. 
Capsule ovate, very obliquely acuminate, compressed, the cells 
unequal, dehiscing at back from top to bottom.—DC. Prod. x. 
p. 521. 
G. scabra, Bth., the only species, is common in the Hastern districts and 
at Natal. Stem herbaceous, rigid, under 1 foot high, scabrous or glabrous. 
Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, ovate or lanceolate, entire or cut, 
very variable. Flowers in terminal, leafy spikes. Corolla 1 in. long. 
39. SOPUBIA, Hamilt. 
Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed, teeth short or narrow, valvate 
in the bud. Corolla funnel- or subrotate-bellshaped, the lobes 
of the limb spreading, entire. Stamens didynamous; anthers 
2 or all cohering in pairs, 1 cell of each anther ovate, submu- 
ticous, fertile, the other small, stipitate, empty. Style thick- 
ened and tongue-shaped at apex, obtuse. Capsule ovate or 
oblong, rounded or compressed at the apex, retuse or emar- 
ginate ; valves entire or 2-fid—DC. Prod. x. p. 521; Thes. 
Cap. t. 146. 
Annual, slender-branching herbs, Asiatic and African. Leaves narrow, 
entire or pinnatifid. Fiowers racemose.—2 Cape species, Eastern distriet 
and Natal. 
40. AULAYA, Harv. 
Calyx tubular or ovate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube exserted ; limb 
erect or spreading, the lobes entire or crenulate. Stamens as 
in Harveya. Style thickened and tongue-shaped at apex, in- 
curved. Capsules with entire valves—DC. Prod. x. p. 521; 
Thes. Cap. t. 36. 
