306 xcn. scrophulae,iace.e (hemsley and skan). [Sutera. 



dentate, usually acute, cuneate at the base, membranous, decreasing in 

 t-ize upwards; petioles 2-6 lin. long. Flowers axillary, solitary, race- 

 mosely scattered from near the base to the apex of the branches ; 

 pedicels f-lA in. long, erect-spreading, usually slightly curved, rather 

 stout. Calyx from 2| lin. long in flower to 44- lin. long in fruit ; seg- 

 ments narrowly linear, unequal, subacute. Corolla 8-9 lin. long, 

 minutely pubescent ; tube narrow, slightly incurved and inflated near 

 the top ; limb 4-5 lin. in diameter; lobes l^lin. long, 1^ lin. broad. 

 Stamens and style included. Capsule 3-4 lin. long, ovoid-oblong, 

 minutely grandular-pubescent. — Erinus tomentosus, Thunb. Prodr. 103 

 and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 476, not of Mill. Lyperia glutinosa, Benth. in 

 Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 378, and in DC. Prodr. x. 359 ; Engl, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. x. 254. 



"Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Otyimbingue, 

 2950 ft., Marloth, 1407. 



Also in South Africa. 



13. S. heucherifolia, Iliem in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 757. A 

 divaricately much branched apparently annual herb, 4-12 in. high, 

 villous with grey glandular hairs ; branches woody, straight, almost 

 angular. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, 

 truncate at the base, incised -dentate, the lower 7-12 lin. long and 

 broad, the upper much smaller ; teeth shortly crenate-dentate ; petiole 

 5J-7 lin. long. Flowers axillary; pedicels 6-12 lin. long, very slender. 

 Calyx-segments 2-2^ lin. long, f lin. broad above the middle, linear- 

 spathulate, acute, densely villous or pubescent, unequal. Corolla white, 

 yellowish on the tube and at the throat ; tube 7-8 lin. long ; limb 

 somewhat unequal; lobes 1|- 2 lin. long, 1-H lin. broad. Capsule 

 2-2J lin. long, narrowly ovoid. — Ghcenostoma heucheri folium, Diels in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 475. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola ; banks of the River Bero, near Cavalheiros, Wel- 

 witsch, 5805 ! 



14. S. amplexicaulis, Iliem in Dyer, Fl. Gap. iv. ii. 287. An 



erect viscid pubescent or villous sparingly branched perennial, woody at 

 least at the base ; stems up to 1 ft. long, procumbent or dependent. 

 Leaves sessile, crowded, often overlapping, 3-8 lin. long, 2-5 lin. broad, 

 semi-amplexicaul or broad at the base, ovate or elliptic, usually serrate 

 near the apex, somewhat acute, the lower opposite, the upper alternate. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, slightly longer than the leaves, very shortly 

 stalked, forming a spike-like inflorescence 2-6 in. long. Calyx 3-4 lin. 

 long ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, somewhat unequal. Corolla 

 about 6 lin. long, glabrous outside ; tube 1 lin. broad at the base, slight!}^ 

 contracted about the middle, somewhat incurved and dilated on the 

 posticous side at the throat; limb 2^ lin. broad; lobes subequal, elliptic 

 or obovate, about 1 lin. long. Stamens and style included. Capsule 

 3-3^ lin. long, oblong-ovoid, slightly contracted near the apex, glabrous. 

 Seeds subglobose, minutely rugose. — Lyperia amplexicaulis, Benth. in 



