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Lyperia atropurpurea

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Identification
Jamesbrittenia atropurpurea (Benth.) Hilliard [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hilliard,O.M., Lyperia atropurpurea Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Lyperia crocea
  • Lyperia atropurpurea
  • Jamesbrittenia aspalathoides
  • Jamesbrittenia atropurpurea

Flora

Entry for SUTERA atropurpurea Hiern [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
SUTERA atropurpurea Hiern [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Manulea atropurpurea Herb. Banks. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 380; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 235.
Lyperia atropurpurea Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c.
Lyperia crocea Ecklon ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. x. 361.
Manulea foliolosa O. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 235 (not L. foliolosa, Benth.).
Chænostoma croceum Wettst. ex Diels [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 491.
Information
a heath-like shrub, 1–3 ft. high, much branched; branches terete, pale brown, glandular-puberulous or nearly glabrous; branchlets wiry, rather elongated, numerous, glandular-puberulous, leafy, grey-green; leaves opposite and usually fasciculate, cuneate-linear or narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowed to the sessile base, firmly fleshy, glandular-puberulous or glabrous, deep- or grey-green, entire, 1/15– 1/6 in. long; internodes between the fascicles 1/8– 1/4 in. long; flowers axillary to the upper fascicles, 3/4–1 in. long, forming terminal leafy racemes; peduncles spreading or ascending, 1-flowered, 1/2–1 in. long, firm, minutely glandular-puberulous, ebracteate; calyx-segments lanceolate-linear, obtuse, glandular-puberulous, 1/10– 1/6 in. long in flower, scarcely longer and little widened in fruit; corolla saffron, chocolate or reddish-brown; tube 3/4– 7/8 in. long, rather slender, cylindrical, somewhat curved and slightly widened near the apex, somewhat glandular outside, glabrous within; lobes oval or oblong, obtuse, entire, 1/6– 1/4 in. long; stamens glabrous; anthers subreniform, about 1/32 in. broad, all fertile; upper pair inserted about the top and the lower pair near the top of the corolla-tube; filaments short; style filiform, glabrous, included or nearly so; stigma ovate, rather narrower than the anthers and reaching the upper pair, glabrous; capsule ovoid-conical or oblong, somewhat compressed, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, 1/8 in. broad, glabrous. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION , ascending to 4000 ft.: Prince Albert Div.; Zwart Bergen, near Vrolyk, Drège! Cradock Div.; near the Great Brak River, Burke! Burghersdorp, Guthrie, 4565! Cradock, Kuntze. Beaufort West Div.; Karoo, Henderson! Richmond Div.; Winterveld, Drège, 8276! Albert Div.; Cooper, 585!COAST REGION , ascending from 400 to 4000 ft.: Riversdale Div.; near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1737! Mossel Bay Div.; near the Gauritz River, Ecklon & Zeyher! Goud (Gauritz) River, Masson! Albany Div.; near Bushmans River, Zeyher, 850! 3515! and without precise locality, Miss Bowker, 380! Fort Beaufort Div.; near Fort Beaufort, Ecklon, 850! Zeyher, 3516! Queenstown Div.; Engotina near Shiloh, Baur, 968! near Queenstown, Galpin, 1813! Cathcart Div.; near Klipplaats River, Drège, 827 a!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 380! Natal; edge of a donga near Weenen, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 4434!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West, Herbert Div.: near Belmont, Orpen, 117! Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1866! 2110! Kimberley Div.; near Kimberley, Marloth, 864! Bechuanaland; banks of the River Moshowa near Takun, Burchell, 2290! Orange River Colony; Mrs. Barber! Burke, 394! Transvaal; Sandloop, 4700 ft., Schlechter, 4377! Klippan, Rehmann, 5287! plains near the Bechuanaland border, Bolus, 6438!WESTERN REGION Great Namaqualand, without precise locality, Schinz, 1!
Notes
This bush deserves notice as a drug, and in all probability will, ere long, become an article of colonial export. It grows abundantly in some parts of the Eastern districts of Cape Colony, whence it has found its way into the dispensary. The flowers, which are called Geele Bloemetjes, closely resemble Saffron in smell and taste, and they possess similar medical properties, and, as an anti-spasmodic, anodyne and stimulant, ought to rank with Crocus sativus. In Cape Town they have as yet been used with success only in the convulsions of children, but they deserve a more general trial. On account of the fine orange colour which they impart, they are in daily request among the Mahomedans, who use them for the purpose of dyeing their handkerchiefs. This drug has been observed sometimes to be adulterated by the admixture of other plants of the same genus, which are less efficacious.—(Pappe, List of S. Afr. Indig. Pl. used as remedies, 10.) In Linnæa xx. 199, Drège distinguished between Lyperia crocea, Eckl., and L. atropurpurea, Benth.; he referred Drège, 827 a to L. crocea, and Zeyher, 3515 (a specimen from Boschmans river in Albany, below 500 ft. alt.) to L. crocea, β. microphylla glabra, Zeyher; and for L. atropurpurea he quoted as a synonym L. crocea, β. microphylla pubescens, Zeyher; but no characteristics were given for either the species or the varieties.

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