Harveiane. tN. O. Scrophularinze. 
AB OLE 
Linpernia CAPENSIs. 
Perennis, ramis erectis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis subin- 
tegerrimis glabris, pedunculis solitariis axillaribus unifloris 
folio longioribus. 
Lindernia Capensis. Th. Fl, Cap. ed. Schult. p. 480. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope; Kramrivier, Lurisrivier, &c. 
Thunberg. In spots that have been inundated during winter, 
near Wynberg. Hon. W. J. Harvey. 
Root perennial (**annual” according to Thunberg.) Stems 
at first accumbent, often rooting, quadrangular, with a deep 
furrow down the opposite sides ; wemckee opposite, nearly erect. 
Leaves glabrous, opposite, ovate, obovate or lanceolate, tapering 
below, mostly quite sessile, acute, entire or obscurely serrated. 
Padeicies longer than the leaves, deflexed in fruit. Calyx 5- 
partite ; seoments subulate, acute. Corolla white, faintly tinged 
with blue, and with two blue spots on the palate, ringent; upper 
lip erect, slightly vaulted, ovate, sharply bifid; lower one of 
3 nearly equal, orbicular, spreading lobes. Stamens 2 perfect, 
2 sterile: perfect attached to the centre of the tube; anthers of 
2 diverging lobes: sterile adnate to the-tube for nearly their 
whole length, free above, tubercled, furnished near the apex — 
with a single tooth, no trace of anthers. Ovary ovate, 2-celled, 
having at the base a yellow waxy cup-shaped ee ee disc. 
Style flat, erect, persistent : stigma bilamellate. W. H. Harvey. 
The drawing was made at the Cape by Mr. Harvey, from the 
recent plant. 
Fig. 1. Corolla. ££ 2. The'same laid open. f. 3. Apex of “ 
fertile stamen. jf. 4. do. of a sterile one. f. 5. Pistil. oe 6 
Section of the ovary :—magnified. 
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