Sutera.] xcn. scrophulauiace^: (hemsley and skan). 303 



lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Cuanza> 

 near Condo, Welwitsch, 1227 ! (specimen imperfect, the determination therefore 

 doubtful). 



Mozamb. Dist. Transvaal : Elim, Mingard Sf Creux. 



5. S. canescens, Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 303. A slender 

 erect perennial a few inches to 1\ ft. high, usually branched from the 

 base, and more or less covered everywhere with shining whitish usually 

 sessile sometimes shortly stalked glands ; branches terete, woody at least 

 at the base. Leaves 3-9 lin. long, 1-4 lin. broad, distinctly petiolate 

 below, subsessile above, lanceolate, oblanceolate or elliptic, subacute, 

 attenuated at the base, serrate-dentate or incised-dentate ; teeth sub- 

 acute. Flowers in elongated terminal simple or branched racemes ; 

 bracts usually leaf-like below, very small and linear above ; pedicels 

 3-5 (rarely up to 7) lin. long, rigid, erect-spreading, usually^ covered 

 with stalked glands. Calyx l£-l| lin. long, deeply cleft ; segments J 

 lin. broad, linear, subacute. Corolla 5 lin. long; tube h lin. broad 

 below, slightly inflated at the top ; limb scarcely 2 lin. in diam. ; lobes 

 about | lin. long and broad, subequal. Stamens included. Style nearly as 

 long as the corolla-tube. Capsule 1^-2 lin. long, narrow-ovoid, obtuse. 

 — Lyperia canescens, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 371), and in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 359. Chcenostoma canescens, Wettst. ex Diels in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxiii. 490. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand ; Rehobothj 

 Scliinz, 27 ! and in the bed of a river, Sckinz, 31 ! 33 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Western Bechuanaland ; O'ifant's 

 Kloof, ScHnz, 11 ! Ngamiland; Botletle Valley, Lugarcl, 268 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



6. S. micrantha, Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Gap. iv. ii. 263. A minutely 

 glandular-puberulous perennial herb or undershrub, reaching 1 ft. high, 

 spai'ingly branched ; branches slender, only about J lin. thick, subterete. 

 Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 7-12 lin. long, 3^-5 lin. broad, obtuse, 

 pinnatifid-lobed, the upper [alternate ; lobes crenate-serrate or entire ; 

 petiole usually about 2^ lin. long, narrowly winged. Flowers axillary 

 or in terminal racemes up to 6 in. long ; lower bracts similar to the 

 leaves but smaller; upper bracts 3-lobed and the uppermost linear, all 

 except the lowest shorter than the pedicels ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long. 

 Calyx-segments oblong-spathulate or linear, about 1^ lin. long, ^ lin. 

 broad, obtuse or obtusely acute. Corolla yellow ; tube scarcely curved, 

 2h lin. long, somewhat narrowly cylindric below, enlarged at the throat, 

 where it is barely 2 lin. in diam. ; limb 3 lin. in diam. ; lobes ovate, very 

 obtuse, 1 lin. long and broad. Longer stamens almost exserted. Capsule 

 ellipsoid-ovoid, 1^-1| lin. long. — S. fissifolia, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 

 1900, 467. Lyperia micrantha, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 

 222. Chcenostoma micranthum, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356 ; Diels in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxiii. 492. 



Mozamb. mist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; near Lupata, 

 Kirk ! Bio de Sena, Peters ! British Central Africa : Rhodesia, Gardner ! 

 Matabeleland ; Buluwayo, Rand, 155 ! banks and islands of the lower Matenguo 

 River, Soluh, 1312 ! 1313 ! 



