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Aptosimum depressum

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Name

Identification
Aptosimum depressum Burch. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for APTOSIMUM depressum Burchell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
APTOSIMUM depressum Burchell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Trav. S. Afr. i. 260, without description;—Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1882; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 345.
Ruellia depressa Linn. f. [family ACANTHACEAE], Suppl. 290; Thunb. Prodr. 104, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 479, not of Wall. Cat. 2379.
Ohlendorffia procumbens Lehm. [family ], Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. (1835); Linnæa, xi., Litt.-Ber. 91.
APTOSIMUM eriocephalum E. Meyer ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1882.
Information
a low undershrub, prostrate, densely or numerously branched, rigid; branches more or less woody at least below, short or in some states elongated, leafy throughout, woolly pubescent or glabrous; leaves obovate, often narrowly so, occasionally subrotund, mucronulate or acuminate, not spinous at the apex, narrowed to the petiolate base, entire, pubescent or glabrous, 1/4– 3/4 in. long, 1 1/12– 1/4 in. broad, sometimes secund; petioles usually about as long as the leaves; flowers axillary, numerous, sessile, inserted on the upper side of the branches, mostly exceeding the leaves, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, fragrant; calyx subglabrous or woolly outside, woolly or pubescent within; lobes lanceolate; corolla puberulous, blue or purple; tube very slender at the base; throat broad and long; capsule emarginate, nearly as long as the calyx; seeds attached by the membranously dilated entire or lacerated funicle. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; near Lospers Plaats, 2000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 1319! Roggeveld, Thunberg! Hantam, Thunberg! Sutherland Div.; between Kuilenberg and Great Reed River, Burchell, 1354! Var. β: Jansenville Div.; Zwart Ruggens, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Somerset Div.; Dikkop Flats, near the Fish River, MacOwan! near Somerset East, Bowker! Atherstone, 12! 58! 67! 95! 208! Cookhouse, Kensit! Cradock Div.; Cooper, 522! Graaff Reinet Div.; Oude Berg, 3000–4000 ft., Drège! Sneeuw Bergen, 4000–5000 ft., Drège! near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 269! Middelburg Div.; near Middelburg Road, Flanagan, 1401! Conway Farm, 3600 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 5568! Beaufort West Div.; near Beaufort West, Kuntze! Colesberg Div.; near Colesberg, Shaw!COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; between the Oliphants River and Bokkeland, Thunberg! Var. β: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Thunberg! Uitenhage Div.; foot of Winterhoek Mountains, Krauss, 1130! Albany Div.; near the Fish River by Hermans Kraal, Ecklon! near Bothas Berg, Atherstone! and without precise locality, Mrs. Barber, 308! 765! Williamson! Queenstown Div.; near the Zwart Kei River, 4000 ft., Drège! near Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 770!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; near the Vaal River, Nelson, 213! Var. γ: Griqualand West; Dutoits Pan, Tuck in Herb. MacOwan, 1826! near Hebron, Flanaghan, 1470! Barkly West, Marloth, 831! Orange River Colony; near the Vaal River, Burke, 80! Zeyher! on flats, Mrs. Barber! Rhenoster Kop, Zeyher, 1317! near Vredefort Road, Barrett-Hamilton! Bechuanaland; Batlapin, Banquaketse and Bakwena Territory, Holub! between Takun and the ruins of the original Litakun, Burchell, 2268! Chooi Desert, Burchell, 2359! between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruikshank in Herb. Bolus, 2542! Transvaal; Matebe Valley, Holub! Stryd Poort, Rehmann, 5423! Marabas Stad, Nelson, 116! Pienaars River, Schlechter, 4223! Pretoria, MacLea, 153!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Hollegat River and the Orange River, 1000–1500 ft., Drège, 2445! Jus, 2800 ft., Schlechter, 11406! Little Bushmanland; Pella, Max Schlechter, 132!
Notes
A specimen of Ruellia depressa, which I have seen in Thunberg's herbarium, is Aptosimum depressum, Burch., and since the original R. depressa, Linn., was founded on a plant collected by Thunberg, it may be taken as highly probable that it was the same plant as that in Thunberg's herbarium. There is no reason to believe that Thunberg had included any other species than that of Linn. f. under the same name, unless great weight is attached to the facts that Linn. f. in his short character described the leaves as opposite, and that in Schultes' edition of Thunberg's Flora the flowers were said to be minute. C. B. Clarke (Dyer, Fl. Cap. v. 16) referred Ruellia depressa to Dyschoriste depressa, Nees. An authentic specimen of Ohlendorffia procumbens, Lehm., has also been seen in the Kew Herbarium. The following forms, though very different in extreme cases, are closely connected and cannot be distinguished by good characters:

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