Name
Identification
Freylinia oppositifolia Spin [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
- Freylinia oppositifolia
Flora
Entry for FREYLINIA oppositifolia Spin [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
FREYLINIA oppositifolia Spin [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Jard. S. Sébast., ed. 2, 13 & 29, nota 12
Capraria lanceolata Linn. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Suppl. Pl. 284; Thunb. Prodr. 103; Burch. Trav. S. Afr.i. 124, 180; Link & Otto, Ic. Pl. Sel. 11, t. 4; not of Vahl, &c.
Budleia glaberrima Loisel.-Deslongch. [family ], Herb. Gen. Amat. iv. 266.
FREYLINIA cestroides Colla [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Hort. Ripul. 56; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 55, and in DC. Prodr. x. 333; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 833.
Beureria cestroides Spreng. [family ], Syst. Veg. iv. ii. 66.
FREYLINIA lanceolata G. Don [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3, 523.
Andrewsia salicifolia Hort. ex F. Mayer [family ], in Flora, 1823, i. 113.
Cestrum aurantiacum F. Mayer [family SOLANACEAE], in Flora, 1823, i. 113.
Capraria salicifolia Hort. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. l.c. See Gazetta Piedmontese Supplemente al No. 59, May 17th, 1817.
Information
a shrub, 4–12 ft. high, glabrous or rarely pubescent above, shining; root perennial, fibrous-branched; stem erect, subtetragonous, much branched; branches opposite, divaricate or erect, virgate, greenish, tetragonous, leafy; leaves opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, attenuate to the sessile or subsessile base, entire, nearly flat, sometimes subfalcate, evergreen, willow-like, 2–5 in. long, 1/6– 2/3 in. broad, margins narrowly decurrent, midrib very prominent beneath, venation otherwise weak; panicles many-flowered, 3–8 in. long; ultimate pedicels short, unequal; flowers yellowish, bracteate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts small; calyx-segments ovate, about 1/8 in. long, obtuse, apiculate, often minutely glandular-ciliolate; corolla funnel-shaped; tube subcylindrical, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, whitish below, saffron-yellow above, thinly pilose within, glabrous outside; limb 1/5– 1/4 in. in diam., regular; lobes 5, spreading or revolute, ovate, obtuse, saffron-yellow, imbricate in bud; stamens 4 and didynamous or occasionally with a short and sterile fifth, all included; style about as long as the corolla-tube; capsule about 1/4– 1/3 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Kloof, 650 ft., Bolus, 5283! Tulbagh Mountains, Pappe! Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, Wurmb. in Herb. Drège. Ceres Div.; by the Berg River, near Ceres, 1200 ft., MacOwan, 2672! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 241! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 940 a! by the Hex River, Burke! Paarl Div.; by streams at Dal Josephat, 600 ft., Tyson, 856! Draakenstein Mountains, 1000 ft., Drège, 940 b! Masson! between Paarl and the Railway Bridge, Drège, 940 c! by the Berg River, Krauss, 1636; Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Gueinzius! Caledon Div.; Palmiet River, Pappe! mountains by Grietjes Gat between Lowrys Pass and Palmiet River, 2000–4000 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher, 171! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 300 ft., Schlechter, 7687! Swellendam Div.; between Zuurbrak and Buffeljagts River, Burchell, 7276! by the Buffeljagts River, near Sparrbosch, 500 ft., Drège, 940 e! Riversdale Div.; between Krombeks River and Jonkers Fontein River, Burchell, 7194! Uitenhage Div.; between Galgebosch and Milk River, Burchell, 4770! VAR. β: Tulbagh Div.; between Kasteels Kloof and New Kloof, by the side of a rivulet and peculiar to such situations; a very neat willow-leaved shrub, decorated with long yellowish flowers, Burchell, 983! Stellenbosch Div.; Stellenbosch, Zeyher, 1325!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Oldenburg! Miller! Niven, 74! Ludwig! VAR. γ, Grey!