2/2 LXXXYII. SCROPHULARTACE^. 



shortly open in frout ; 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 witli ieaf-scales. Spikes dense, ovate. It varies either 

 glabrous or densely woolly. — Found throughout the colony. 



Teibe 9. GEEAEDiEiE. (Greu. 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. scahra, Bth., the only species, is common in the Eastern 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. Flowers racemose. — 2 Cape species, Eastern district 

 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. 



