Sopubia.~\ xcn. scu,opiiulariace.e (hemsley and skan). 



445- 



terminal racemes or spikes, bracteate ; pedicels 2-bracfceolate near the 

 apex. — Gerdaria, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 9 1, without description. Raphido- 

 phyllum, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 666. Rhaphidophylium, Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 521. 



Species 27, mostly in Tropical Africa; a few in South Africa, Madagascar and 

 India, one extending to China, the Malay Archipelago and Australia. 



* Flowers in racemes or elongated spikes, rarely in 

 short dense spikes when the plant is densely 

 tomentose or woolly, 

 f Leaves, at least some of them, pinnatifid. 



Calyx nearly glabrous outside or sometimes 

 seabrid, not woolly. 

 Calyx nearly glabrous outside, ] f-2j lin. 

 long ; pedicels 3-9 lin. long. 

 Stem simple or sparingly branched ; leaves 

 when divided usually with 3 segments; 

 corolla 44-6 lin. in diam. . . . 1. S. trifida. 



Stem very much branched; leaves usually 

 with more than 3 segments ; corolla 

 4 lin. in diam. . . . . . 2. S. JEminii. 



Calyx scahrid out side, 2|-2|- lin. long ; pedicels 



1-li lin. long . . . . 3. S. similis. 



Calyx more or less woolly. 



Flowers distinctly pedicellate ; calyx sparingly 

 woolly ...... '. 



Flowers sessile ; calyx densely woolly . 



ft Leaves all entire or sometimes minutely denticulate 

 (S. Eenii). 

 X Plant glabrous, shortly hairy or seabrid (stem 

 densely pilose in &. laiifolia), not tomentose or 

 woolly. 



Leaves ovate, h in. broad, obtuse . 

 Leaves filiform to linear-lanceolate, up to 

 1| lin. broad, acute. 

 Corolla 1 in. in diam.; plant robust, up to 



3i ft. high ; pedicels 7|-10 lin. long . 10. S. JBuchneri 



Corolla 5-7 lin. in diam. ; plant robust, up 



to 4 ft. high ; pedicels |— 2 lin. long . 



Corolla 6—8 lin. in diam.; plant rather 



slender, 1-2 ft. high; pedicels usually 



3-6 lin. long. 



Leaves densely crowded ; racemes densely 



flowered . 



Leaves not crow r ded; racemes not densely 

 flowered. 

 Calyx 1|— 2^ lin. long ; corolla 6-S lin. 

 in diam. 

 Stems sharply angled ; leaves closely 



adpressed ; seeds §— f- lin. long 9. S. simplex. 

 Stems not sharply angled ; leaves 



spreading ; seeds J lin. long . 11. S. dregeana. 

 Calyx 1^-li lin. long; corolla 4- 



4 ijr lin. in diam. .... 12. S. parvijlora. 



4. S. Jcaraguensis. 



5. S. Welwitschii.. 



6. S. latifolia. 



7. S. 



8. S.Mai 



