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Freylinia undulata

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Identification
Freylinia undulata (L.f.) Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for FREYLINIA undulata Benth. [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 undulata Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 55;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 333, excl. syn.
Capraria rigida Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 103, excl. syn.
Freylinia rigida G. Don. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Gen. Syst. iv. 617.
Capraria undulata Linn. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Suppl. Pl. 284; L'Hérit. Sert. Angl. 21, t. 25; Thunb. Prodr. 103; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1556.
Information
a shrub, 1–6 ft. high, glabrous or pubescent; stem erect, more or less branched; branches often straggling, long and but little divided; branchlets leafy, divaricate or erect-patent; leaves opposite, verticillate or scattered, ovate or oval-lanceolate, acute or apiculate and sometimes pungent or rarely obtuse, nearly rounded at the base, rigid, undulate or sometimes flat, 1/4–1 in. long, 1/8– 1/3 in. broad; petioles ranging up to 1/6 in. long; racemes dense or occasionally lax or subpaniculate; cymes 1–6 in. long; pedicels very short; flowers purplish, 2/5– 3/4 in. long, bracteate; bracts small; calyx-segments ovate, mucronate or apiculate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; corolla glabrous outside, very thinly pilose within; limb 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam.; lobes 5, rounded, spreading or revolute; stamens included; style about equalling the corolla-tube; capsule glabrous, glaucescent, 1/3– 2/5 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION VAR. γ: Prince Albert Div.; Great Zwartbergen Range, near Vrolykheid, 5000 ft., Drège, 7892! VAR. δ: Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, Miss Bowker!COAST REGION Caledon Div.; Grabouw, near the Palmiet River, 800 ft., Guthrie, 4166! Swellendam Div.; hills near Swellendam, Masson! by the Zondereinde River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 374! 383! mountain ridges along the lower part of the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3523! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 2523! Ecklon! Riversdale Div.; between Zoetemelks River and Little Vet River, Burchell, 6852! hills near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6753! Knysna Div.; near Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5161! VAR. β: Swellendam Div.; near the Breede River, in the vicinity of Swellendam, below 1000 ft., Drège! Burchell, 7449! 7486! Tradouw Mountains, Drège! between Zuurbraak and Buffeljagts River Drift, Burchell, 7275! Barrydale, 1200 ft., Galpin, 4368! Humansdorp Div.; north side of Kromme River, Burchell, 4882! at Suku, Burchell, 4810! VAR. γ: Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Drège, 7891 a! VAR. δ: Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 7891 b! VAR. ε: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Ecklon! perhaps to this variety should be referred specimens from Oudtshoorn Div.; by the Oliphants River, Gill! and Knysna Div.; near Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5161! VAR. ζ: Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, 4369!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Roxburgh! MacOwan, 1451! and cultivated specimens!WESTERN REGION VAR. β: Little Namaqualand; between Uitkomst and Geelbeks Kraal, 2000–3000 ft., Drège.

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