2 LXXXVIII. HYDROPHYLLACE^E (BAKER AND BROWN). [Codon. 



petioled, sinuate. Flowers in terminal scorpioid cymes with leafy 

 bracts. — Choisy in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, i. 181. 



I he only two species, both of which extend into South Africa. 



Corolla 13-14 lin. long, white, striped with purple . 1. C. Royeni. 



Corolla 7 lin. long, yellow . . . . . . 2. C. SchencJcii. 



1. C. Royeni, Linn. Syst. Nat. eel. 12, ii. 292. A stout, erect, 

 much-branched shrub, 3 ft. or more high, armed, except the corolla, 

 with copious spreading white spines, \-^ in. long, and densely 

 covered with a fine subtomentose spreading glandular pubescence. 

 Leaves ovate, 1-3 in. long, |— 1^ in. broad, acute or subobtuse, 

 rounded at the base, sinuate on the margin, scabrid on both 

 sides ; petiole |— 1 in. long. Flowers in terminal scorpioid cymes ; 

 bracts leaf-like ; pedicels \-^ in. long. Calyx-lobes §-1 in. long, 

 linear or spathulate. Corolla campanulate, 8-12-lobed, white, 

 with 8-12 purple stripes and thinly pubescent outside; tube about 

 ■f in. long, plaited ; lobes 4-5 lin. long, 2-2^ lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 

 with a few glands on the back of the apical part. Stamens shorter 

 or longer than the corolla ; filaments filiform, hairy at the base, their 

 basal partitions 2 lin. long, 1|^ lin. broad, bordered with woolly 

 hairs which connect in an arched line with those from the adjoin- 

 ing partitions. Anthers 1^-lf lin. long, oblong ; style hairy at the 

 base. Capsule 4-5 lin. in diam., globose, acuminate, often sprinkled 

 with black glands. — Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 389 ; Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 325 ; DC. Prodr. x. 589 ; Engl. Jahrb. x. 247 ; Kuntze in Jahrb. 

 Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 268 , C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 2. 



Lower Guinea. Hereroland : in sandy ground near Usakos, 2900 ft., Mar- 

 loth, 1234- ; and without precise locality, Pechuel- Loesche. 

 Also in South Africa. 



2. C. Schenckii, Schinz in Abhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 173, 

 very near C. Royeni, from which it differs as follows : Calyx-lobes 

 ■|— | in. long. Corolla yellow ; tube 3-3 J (5| ex Schinz) lin. long ; 

 lobes 8-J- (2 ex Schinz) lin. long, 2|-2J (lj ex Schinz) lin. broad. 

 Partitions connecting the base of the stamens to the corolla f lin. long, 

 |- lin. broad, obtriangular, densely bordered with white woolly hairs, 

 which extend in double rows a- short distance up the corolla-tube and 

 inarch to meet those from the adjoining stamens. Anthers 1 lin. long. 

 —Engl. Jahrb. x. 248 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 2. 

 G. Dregei, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 174. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Tscharridib, 

 1800 ft., Marloth, 1235; and without precise locality, Luderitz, Schinz. South- 

 west Africa, lat. 23°, Chapman Sf Haines J 



Also in Great and Little Namaqualand. 



2. HYDROLEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 831. 



Calyx 5-partite ; aestivation imbricate at the base, open above. 

 Corolla 5-lobed almost to the base, rotate-cam panulate. Stamens 5, 



