South African Verbcnacece. 177 



Areole anterior : 

 Flowering calyx-tube not exceeding 1 cm. : 

 Fruiting spike exceeding 10 cm. : 



Bracts and calyx-tube puberulous but without capitate 



glands (8) garepensis. 



Bracts and calyx-tube with capitate glands, otherwise 



glabrous (10) glandulifera. 



Fruiting spike not exceeding 7 cm. : 

 Leaves crowded : 



Leaves sessile, whorled (rarely opposite) (9) cernua. 



Leaves petioled, opposite caespitosa. 



Leaves distant, opposite : 



Nearly all leaves entire integrifolia. 



Leaves deeply serrate caespitosa. 



Leaves deeply pinnati-partite with linear segments (13) pinnatifida. 



Flowering calyx-tube exceeding 1 cm. : 



Leaves cuneate or oblong-cuneate, entire except at the 



rounded apex (11) namaquana. 



Leaves ovate-oblong with distantly toothed margins, less 



than 3 cm. long (12) pumila. 



Leaves pinnatifid or incised, 6-7 cm. long incisa. 



Bouchea glandulifera, H. H. W. Pearson in Thiselton-Dyer 



Flora Capensis, v. 204. 



[This species was originally described from an immature specimen 

 {Schlechter 76). The following amended description is based upon 

 perfect specimens in the herbaria of Dr. Bolus and Dr. Schonland.] 



Descriptio emendata : Fruticulus glaberrimus, ramosus laxe. 

 Folia opposita, petiolata, oblonga subrhomboideave, obtusa, mar- 

 ginibus obtuse incisis, nervis lateralibus obscuris. Bacemus 

 terminalis, simplex, spicoideus, confertus, bracteatus. Bractece 

 anguste lineares, acutae, marginibus membranaceis, glandulis 

 minutis capitatis pedicellatis instructis ; bracteolae setulosse, 

 glabrae. Mores pedicellis tenuibus suffulti. Galycis tubus rectus, 

 prominente striatus, glandulis capitatis instructus, cseterum glaber- 

 rimus ; dentes parvi, acuti, glanduiiferi. Gorollce tubus arcuatus, 

 extus glaber, intus praesertim in faucibus hispido-villosus. Antherce 

 filamentis glanduliferis suffultae. Fructus maturus nigricans ex 

 coccis cohaerentibus 2 constatus, oblongus, basim latior, posteriore 

 paullo arcuatus, anteriore areola lata instructus. 



Kalahari Eegion: Little Bushmanland; Stickland, Schlechter 76. 

 Western Eegion: Little Namaqualand; I'us, 2,800 ft., 

 Schlechter 11,410. 



A loosely branched glabrous shrub, 30-60 cm. high ; internodes 

 4-6 cm. long. Leaves opposite, oblong or subrhomboid, obtuse, with 



