tSutera.] xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). 309 



According to Baines this is the Geel Bloeraijies of South Tropical Africa. 

 " Flowers in reality white, but used by the Boers for dyeing linen and staining 

 wood yellow." 



20. S. atropurpurea, Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 806. An 

 erect or suberect slender heath-like much-branched unclershrub, 1-3 ft. 

 high, glandular-puberulous on nearly all its parts but especially on the 

 branches ; stem and branches wiry, terete. Leaves very small in 

 alternate or sometimes opposite fascicles, linear-oblong or linear-cuneate, 

 f-2 lin. long, J-f lin. broad, obtuse, gradually narrowed to the sessile 

 base, entire, fleshy or coriaceous, glandular-puberulous or glabrous. 

 Flowers in loose terminal racemes. Peduncles J-l in. long, minutely 

 glandular-puberulous. Calyx-segments linear- lanceolate, 1^-2 lin. long, 

 lather thick. Corolla saffron, chocolate or reddish-brown, sparingly 

 glandular outside; tube 8-12 lin. long, scarcely more than ^ lin. broad 

 below, slightly incurved and about 1 lin. broad at the apex ; limb 

 somewhat 2-lipped ; lobes oblong or obovate, 2-3 lin. long 1 f lin. broad, 

 obtuse. Stamens included. Capsule narrowly ovoid, 3-6 lin. long, 1^ 

 lin. broad, glandular-pulverulent or glabrous. — Lyperia atropurpurea, 

 Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 380 ; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 

 1900, 467. L. crocea, Ecklon ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 361. Chcenos- 

 toma croceum, Wettst. ex Diels in Engl. Jabrb. xxiii. 491. 



IVXozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Matabeleland ; Buluwayo, Rand, 

 370 ! Ngamiland ; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 267 ! 



21. S. huillana, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Weliv. i. 757. An erect 

 undershrub covered with sessile or stalked glands ; stem 8-16 in. high, 

 rigid, rather thick ; branches several, 1^-lf in. long. Leaves fascicu- 

 late, petiolate or subsessile, cuneate, coriaceous ; blade 2-6 lin. long, 

 14^-3 lin. broad towards the apex, dentate at the apex ; petioles 

 scarcely 3|- lin. long. Floral leaves subentire, 2 or 3 times shorter 

 than the peduncles. Flowers in a loose terminal raceme ; pedicels 3-8 

 in. long, becoming 1 in. long in fruit. Calyx-segments narrowly 

 lanceolate, 1A-2 lin. long, rather obtuse. Corolla brilliantly purple-red ; 

 tube 8-12 lin. long, slender, ^ lin. broad below, about 1 lin. broad at the 

 apex, thinly covered with very shortly stalked glands ; limb slightly 2- 

 lipped, 4-5 lin. in diam. ; lobes obovate, 1J-2| lin. long, 1^-2 lin. 

 broad, emarginate or obcordate, covered with sessile glands on the back. 

 Stamens included. Capsule 2|-3 lin. long, 1\ lin. broad. — Chcenostoma 

 huillanum, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 477. 



lower Guinea. Angola : between Mumpulla and Arroiol do Caionda, Wel- 

 witsch, 5834! Huilla, Antunes, 117. 



Imperfectly known species. 



22. Lyperia pedicellata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 

 223. An erect unbranched lepidote-puberulous herb 5 in. high. Stem 

 terete. Leaves 8 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, subpinnately lobed or incised, 

 membranous, the lower leaves opposite, the upper alternate and smaller ; 

 segments short, linear, obtuse. Flowers axillary ; pedicels 5-6 lin. 



