DESCRIPTION:--A somewhat woody undershrub about 30 cm. high with deep underground roots. _Stems_ striate, cobwebby. _Leaves_ 5·5-7 cm. long, 1-1·7 cm. broad, lanceolate, acute, or obtuse, sometimes subacuminate, slightly broadened and half-clasping at the base, usually entire, more rarely minutely and remotely toothed, glabrous above, cobwebby beneath. _Capitulum_ shortly peduncled, about 5 cm. in diameter when expanded. _Involucral-bracts_ in about 8 rows, the outermost strongly reflexed, the rest erect spreading, 1·5-2·5 cm. long, 4-9 mm. broad, ovate, acuminate, pungent, with membranous margins (except the outermost); the innermost bracts erect, closely enveloping the flowers, almost wholly membranous. _Involucre_ 1·5 cm. in diameter, slightly convex, deeply honeycombed. _Flowers_ all hermaphrodite. _Corolla-tube_ 6 mm. long, cylindric for 5 mm. then suddenly campanulate, glabrous; lobes 4·5 mm. long, linear, gradually tapering upwards, obtuse, recurved in open flowers. _Stamens_ inserted at the widened portion of the corolla-tube; filaments 1·5 mm. long, linear; anthers 7·5 mm. long, linear, lanceolate, acute at the apex, long-tailed at the base; tails hairy with ascending hairs. _Ovary_ densely villous; style 1·5 cm. long, cylindric, glabrous; lobes 0·5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, convex and hairy on outer side. _Pappus_ 9 mm. long, dense and completely hiding the corolla-tube; setae long, plumose. PLATE 88.--Fig. 1, longitudinal section of head; Fig. 2, surface view of part of receptacle; Fig. 3, involucral-bract; Fig. 4, an inner involucral-bract; Fig. 5, disc-floret before style appears; Fig. 6, disc-floret with style through the stamens; Fig. 7, disc-floret with pappus removed; Fig. 8, stamen; Fig. 9, apex of style; Fig. 10, a single pappus bristle; Fig. 11, portion of a leaf showing the minute teeth on the margin. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: _89._ K A Lansdell del] PLATE 89. HYOBANCHE FULLERI. _Natal._ SCROPHULARIACEAE. Tribe GERARDIEAE. HYOBANCHE, _Thunb._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 968. =Hyobanche Fulleri=, _Phillips_, sp. nov. _Stipes_ succulentus. _Folia_ 1·4 cm. longa, superne 6 mm. lata, spathulata, apice obtusa, externe glanduloso-villosa. _Inflorescentia_ ad 13 cm. longa, 3 cm. lata. _Bracteae_ 2·5 cm. longae, superne 6 mm. latae, spathulatae, externe glanduloso-pilosae, 3-nervosae; bracteolae 2, 2·5 cm. longae, 2 mm. latae, lineares, apice subacutae. _Pedicellus_ 3 mm. longus, 3 mm. latus, carnosus. _Calyx_ inaequalis; segmentum infimum 3 mm. longum, lineare; cetera 2·5 cm. longa, pilosa. _Corolla_ leviter curvata, 3·5 cm. longa, 7 mm. lata, superne viscido-pilosa. _Filimenta_ 2·4 cm. longa. _Ovarium_ 4 mm. longum, globosum, glabrum; stylus 2·7 cm. longus, superne curvatus; stigma clavatum.