368 SYNOPSIS OF THE BUCHNERE.E, 
Stems two feet high. Leaves numerous. 
Spikes two inches long very densely im- 
bricated, when in fruit seven or eight lines 
in diameter. Calyx very much depressed. 
30. B. tetragona (Br. Prod. 293.), gla- 
bra, elata, foliis oblongis lanceolatisve pau- 
cidentatis, spica tetragona imbricata glabra, 
bracteis lato-ovatis calycem superantibus. 
Has. Australia: North coast, R. Brown; 
Goulburn Island, A. Cunningham. (v. s.) 
Differs from B. tetrasticha (besides its 
smoothness) in the spike much less densely 
imbricate, and the leaves,more distant on 
the stem. 
III. RHAMPHICARPA. 
Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus. Co- 
es ae, Se t3 n cc LN PEN 
1 g ; I 
5-partito, laciniis obovatis subequalibus. 
Stamina didynama, tubo inclusa. Capsula 
oblique mucronata vel rostrata, valvulis 
coriaceis integris. Herb: erecte ramose, 
siccitate nigricantes, glabre. Folia infe- 
riora opposita, superiora alterna, angusta, 
integra vel pinnatisecta. Flores breviter 
pedunculati, racemosi, sepius ebracteati. 
l. R. longiflora, foliis pinnatisectis an- 
guste linearibus, corolle tubo recto limbo 
I = 1 z 1 " - 
Buchnera longiflora, Wight, MSS. 
Has. Senegal (Isle of St. Louis), Le- 
prieur. East Indian Peninsula, Wight. 
Mountains of North India, Jaquemont. 
(v. 5. 
A small erect annual, very branchy, gla- 
brous. Segments of the leaves few and 
distant, smooth. Peduncles usually shorter 
than the calyx and naked, sometimes longer 
with a pair of bractes. Calyx deeply cleft, 
with long subulate segments, lanceolate 
atthe base. Corolla white (drying bluish), 
tube an inch and a half long, lobes of the 
limb short, broad, truncate or emarginate. 
2. R.tubulosa, foliis lanceolato-lineari- 
bus, integris, coroll: limbo tubo subincur- 
vo ud breviore, capsulis truncatis rostro 
. Gerardia tubulosa, Linn. Suppl. 279. 
Ha». Extratropical South Africa: East- 
ern portion ofthe Uitenhage district, Eck- 
lon, Drége, &c. (v. s.) f^ 
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A TRIBE OF SCROPHULARIACES. 
Whole plant glabrous. 
smooth. Leaves smooth or slightly rough, 
narrowed at both ends, nearly all opposite. 
Peduncles rather longer than the calyx. 
Corolla white, drying bluish; tube an inch 
long, slightly curved about the middle, lobes 
of the limb entire, obovate. Divisions of the 
calyx lanceolate about as long as the tube. 
3. . curviflora, foliis lanceolato-linea- 
ribus integris, corolle limbo tubo incurvo 
vix breviore, capsulis acinaciformibus. 
Has. Madagascar and Mozambique, 
Forbes. (v. s. 
Habit of R. tubulosa. Leaves narrower, 
divisions of the calyx longer, tube of the 
corolla more curved, with a larger limb. 
Capsule very oblique. 
IV. Cycnium. E. Meyer, MSS. 
Calyz basi bibracteatus, longe tubulosus, 
apice 5-fidus. Corolle tubo cylindrico 
recto, limbo patente profunde 5-fido laciniis 
ovatis integris. Stamina tubo inclusa di- 
dynama. Capsula carnosa, indehiscens(?) 
—Herbe  Austro- Africana rigide scabre 
siccitate nigricantes. Folia opposita vel 
superiora alterna, diem dentata. Flores 
rvOo. axillares vel racemos 
l C.adonense (E. Mee MSS.), caule 
procumbente, foliis ovatis oblongisve, flo- 
ribus sessilibus axillaribus, corolle tut 
calyce plus duplo longiore. 
Has. Addo country, in the Uitenhage 
district, Drége, also in Ecklon’s collection 
and the Linnean Herbarium. (v. $.) 
All covered with very rigid short hairs. 
Leaves sessile wedge-shaped at the base,Ca- 
lyx above an inch long, open at the base as 
the capsule swells, divisions leafy three to 
four lines long. Corolla white, tube two and 
a half inches long, limb flat an inch and à 
half in diameter. Capsule oval, halfan inch 
long, with very numerous seeds. 
= 
acemosum, caule erecto, folis ; 
Stems erect a — 
foot or more high, but little branched, ` 
C. 
lanceolatis, floribus pedunculatis racemosis, : : 
corolle tubo calycem vix sequante. 
Has. Near Siloh on the Klipplaat rivet, 2 
on the eastern side of the Witsenberg, in 
Tambukiland, Ecklon. (v. s.) 
In habit somewhat resembling the Me 
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