ADDISONIA 73 
(Plate 77) 
FREYLINIA LANCEOLATA 
Lance-leaved Freylinia 
Native of southern Africa 
Family SCROPHULARIACEAE Ficwort Family 
Capraria lanceolata I. £. Suppl. 284. 1781. 
Freylinia oppositifolia Spin, Jard. St. Sebast. ed. 2.13. 1812. 
Freylinia cestroides Colla, Hort. Ripul. 56. ‘ 
Freylinia lanceolata G. Don, in Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3. 523. 1839. 
This is an attractive shrub, freely branching, sometimes a dozen 
feet high, with wand-like greenish four-sided branches and orange- 
yellow flowers. ‘The leaves are linear or linear-lanceolate, and are 
up to five inches long and three-quarters of an inch broad; they are 
with short ovate obtuse lobes. The orange-yellow corolla is funnel- 
shaped; the tube is slightly enlarged upward and about three 
eighths of an inch long, sparingly hairy inside, glabrous outside; 
the limb is from a quarter to three eighths of an inch in diameter, 
the five spreading lobes ovate. The stamens are included, tae} in 
number, and usually with a short and sterile fifth. The he . is 
about as long as the tube of the corolla. The capstile is about a 
quarter of an inch long or a little more. 
This is one of the most attractive shrubs for the cool ee 
The illustration was prepared from a plant which has been in the 
collection of the New York Botanical Garden for about fifteen sai 
Freylinia is a small genus of about four species, all peri: bi 
southern Africa. It is of the same tribe to which belong yge ae 
and Russelia, two greenhouse shrubs common 10 Sic age oo 
Scrophularia, Chelone, and Pentstemon, which include ee 
best known and showy members of our wild and garden floras. 
Grorce V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Flowering stem. oo fein opened, 
showing fertile stamens and the short sterile fifth stamen, 
