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shortly ciliate, as long as the somewhat turbinate ovary. Corolla half 
cleft; tube about equalling the calyx-teeth ; limb funnel-shaped, hairy, 
at the throat, lobes oval, obtuse, puberulous inside. Style exserted, 
with two short spreading branches. Capsule subglobose, crowned with 
the erect calycine lobes, loculicidally bi-valved.—Hedyotis monanthos, 
Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 1870; Rich. Fl, Abyss. i. 359. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! ; alt. 8400 ft., Petit. 
21. O. ceespitosa, Hiern. A cespitosely branched dwarf procum- 
bent leafy annnal, puberulous towards the extremities. Leaves linear- 
oval or oblong, obtuse, somewhat narrowed to the sessile base, 3 in. 
long; stipules sheathing, membranous, truncate, setose-ciliate. Flowers 
very small, tetramerous, white, pedunculate, solitary; peduncles 
slender, about 2 in, long, from the upper axils. Calyx-segments lanceo- 
late, acute, and as long as the tube in flower, in fruit ovate. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, shortly exceeding the calyx. Capsule subglobose, 
slightly compressed, about ys in. diam., dehiscing loculicidally at the 
apex. Seeds obtusely angular.—Oldenlandia herbacea ? var. ccespitosa, 
Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 403. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Palmas, 7h. Vogel! 
22. O. tenuissima, Hiern. A densely cespitose very slender 
annual, abont an inch high, simple or but little branched dichotomously. 
tem sparingly puberulous. Leaves linear or subspathulate or the upper- 
Most and lower ones narrowly oval, obtuse, somewhat narrowed towards 
the sessile base, sparingly scabrous, 2-4 in. long or those towards 
either extremity smaller ; margins recurving ; stipules shortly sheath- 
™g, ovate, apiculate or bidentate, not spinose. Flowers solitary, 
subterminal and in the upper axils, pedunculate, very small, tetra- 
ncrous ; peduncles slender, scarcely glabrous, ranging up to jin. 
“yx somewhat turbinate, not quite glabrous ; segments lanceolate- 
subulate, as long as the tube. Corolla funnel-shaped, about the length 
of the calyx-teeth ; lobes ovate, subobtuse. Stamens included ; anthers 
ree Capsule subglobose, slightly compressed, furrowed down the 
toader sides, dehiscing loculicidally at the apex, membranous, ;/; in. 
4m. ; base somewhat turbinate. Seeds obtusely angular. 
South Central. Island at Victoria Falls, Kirk! 
23. 0. lancifolia, Schweinf. mss. in Hb. Herbaceous annual, simple 
oT branched near the base. Stem or branches elongated, slender, gla- 
on Smooth or slightly scabrid, creeping or prostrate. Leaves linear 
ge a wy lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, glabrous, 1-2 in. long, 
oe ©; Margins rather scabrid ; stipules shortly sheathing, truncate 
" eth ate, bicuspidate with subulate or filiform diverging or distant 
and ; F lowers very small, solitary, on long slender axillary alternate 
lan °Pposite pedicels of 3-2 in., divaricate in fruit. Calyx-lobes 4, 
sin Ceolate, acute, as long as the tube. Corolla shorter than or scarcely 
ceeding the calyx, campanulate. Capsule globose, somewhat com- 
Pressed, marked with a furrow down each of the broader sides, $-} in. 
