Plate 196.
Reading edition
SUTERA Burkeana. Transvaal, Zululand. Scrophulariaceae. Tribe Manuleae. SUTERA, Roth. (including Lyperia, Benth.); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 945.
Sutera Burkeana, Hiern. Fl. Cap. vol. iv. sect. ii. p. 299.
The Sutera Burkeana here figured for the first time is a common plant in some localities around Pretoria and is to be found in flower from the beginning of August onwards. It is a bush up to 2-1/2 ft. high and appears to be very localised in its distribution, as only isolated patches are met with on the hills surrounding Pretoria. It has also been recorded from the neighbourhood of Johannesburg and from Zululand.
The plant flowers profusely, and when in full bloom makes a fine display and would no doubt be improved under proper cultivation.
Our Plate was prepared from specimens collected by Mr. C. A. Smith near Pretoria.
Description:—A much-branched shrub ·3 to 1·3 m. high. Branches glandular-puberulous. Leaves fascicled recurved 3 to 8 mm. long, linear to oblong, cuneate at the base, acute, toothed, punctate. Flowers arranged racemosely at the ends of the branches. Pedicels 7 mm. long, terete, rigid, viscid-puberulous. Calyx 3 to 4 mm. long, deeply 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate-linear or oblong-lanceolate, acute, glandular-hairy. Corolla-tube cylindric, somewhat swollen and twice curved above, glandular-hairy without, softly hairy in the throat; lobes broadly obovate, obtuse, entire, often curled or recurved, glandular-hairy outside. Stamens 4, hardly exserted; filaments filiform, inserted on the corolla-tube. Anthers 1-thecous, all perfect. Ovary 2-chambered with numerous ovules; style subulate, included; stigma obtuse. Fruit a capsule; valves cleft at the apex. Seeds numerous, regose. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2937.)
Plate 196.—Fig. 1, longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, pistil; Fig. 3, cross-section of ovary.
F.P.S.A., 1925.
