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leaves, the leaflets narrow, glaucous. Capsules 2-lobed, pubescent. — Found 

 in the Northern and Eastern districts, 



6. SPORLEDERA, Beinli. 



Calyx 5-parted, at length deciduous. Corolla with a short 

 tube, a bell-shaped throat, and a 5-lobed, 2-labiate limb, the 

 medial lobe of lower lip largest. Stamens 4, didynamous. 

 Ovary acute, terete, by the iuflexed margins of the valves 4- 

 celled ; stigma 2-lamelled. Capsules oblong, cylindrical- 

 4-lobed, shortly 4-horned at the apex, on the angles. Seeds 

 flattish, obovate, rugulose on each side, with a deep marginal 

 furrow.— i>6\ Frod. ix. p. 252. 



S. triloba, Bernh., is an erect annual, with opposite, petioled, coarsely 

 toothed or lobed leaves, and terminal racemes of flowers. — Found at Natal. 

 S. Xraussiana, Bernh., appears to be a trifling variety. 



TeIBE 3. DlDTMOCAEPE^. 



7. STREPTOCARPUS, Lindl. 



Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Corolla tubular funnel-shaped, 

 widening and either ventricose or compressed at the throat, 

 with an obliquely 5-lobed, subequal limb. Stamens 5, the 

 2 anterior fertile, with glabrous, connate, 2-celled anthers, the 

 cells divergent ; 3 upper sterile, adnate to the tube, tubercu- 

 lar at tip. Ovary terete, elongate, straight, 1-celled (almost 

 4-celled from the inflexed didymous placentas) ; stigma 2- 

 labiate, the lobes reniform, the lower scarcely larger. Capsule 

 pod-like, terete, spirally twisted, loculicidal. Seeds minute, 

 ohlong.— DC. Prod. ix. p. 270. 



The Cape species, of which several are known, are stemless plants, with 

 rugose, unequal, pubescent or velvety leaves, and 1-2- or many-flowered 

 scapes. Flowers pale purplisli-blue, often very handsome. — Eastern dis- 

 tricts and Natal. 



Order XCIL ACANTHACE^. 



Calyx 4-5-parted, equal or unequal, persistent ; rarely 

 either multifid or entire and obsolete. Corolla mostly irregu- 

 lar, more or less 2-labiate, rarely 1-labiate or nearly regular. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, or 2 fertile and 2-3 sterile ; anthers 

 2- or 1-celled. Ovary on a glandular disk, 2-celIed ; ovules 2 

 or more in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Capsules 

 2-celled, elastically 2-valved, loculicidal ; seeds 2 or more in 

 each cell, ascending, subtended by rigid, subulate or cup-like, 

 persistent processes of the placentas ; albumen 0. — Herbs or 

 shrubs, with opposite, exstipulate leaves and bracteatc flowers. 

 Inflorescence various. The Order is chiefly tropical, (There 



