Lyperia
(from lyperos, sad or sorrowful; alluding to the dull, heavy colour of the flowers). ORD. Scrophularineae. A genus comprising about thirty species of greenhouse herbs or sub-shrubs, of little ornamental value. All are natives of South Africa. Flowers axillary, or in terminal spikes or racemes, usually more or less viscous. Lower leaves opposite; upper ones alternate, toothed or much cut, often tufted in the axils, sometimes minute, blackening in drying. This genus is allied to Zaluzianskia (which see for culture). L. pedunculata (long-peduncled). fl. white; calyx three to four times shorter than the corolla tube; limb of corolla a trifle shorter than the tube; pedicels over 1in. long, axillary, filiform. June to November. l. petiolate, sub-fasciculate, obovate-cuneate, deeply toothed. h. 1 1/2ft. 1790. Plant suffruticose, divaricately branched, finely pubescent. (A. B. R. 84, under name of Buchnera pedunculata.)