468 LXXV, CAMPANULACEZ (HEMSLEY). [ Lobelia. 
9. . umbrosa, Hochst.; Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 7, excl. syns. A 
slender erect glabrous annual, with conspicuously winged stems. 
Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed at 
the base, distantly and acutely toothed, 6-9 lines long, gradually pass- 
ing into small bracts upwards. Flowers less than 3 lines long, solitary 
in the axils of the leaves and bracts, borne on extremely slender pe- 
duncles somewhat longer than the leaves. Calyx-lobes subulate, more 
than half as long as the corolla, which is fissured to the base on the 
upper side ; two lower anthers bearded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Richard refers this to the Lobelia Laurentia, Linn., Laurentia Michelii, A.DC., 
but although the two plants bear a general resemblance to each other, there 1s 00 
doubt that our plant is a true Lobelia, having the corolla split to the base. 
10. %. Melleri, Hemsl. An erect glabrous much-branched an- 
- nual, about a foot high, with prominently winged branches, terminating 
in long racemes of flowers. Leaves membranous, 1-2 in. long, lan- 
ceolate-oblong, obtuse, coarsely and irregularly crenate-dentate ; blade 
narrowed about half way down into a winged petiole, the upper ones 
passing gradually into linear bracts, about half as long as the slender 
pedicels, which are from 6-9 lines long. Flowers less than 6 lines 
long ; calyx-lobes linear-subulate, nearly as long as the corolla-tube. 
Upper anthers hairy on the back, lower two bearded at the tip. Cap- 
sule conical, about as long as the calyx-lobes. 
Mozamb. Distr. Dakanamaio Islands, Zambesi Expedition, C. J. Meller! 
This should perhaps be placed under ZL. fervens, but I have seen no authentic 
specimens of that plant, and the Mozambique L. Petersiana, which Sonder refers 
thither and which is the only one of Peters’s plants I have seen, differs very much in 
the flowers. 
11. L. fervens, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 183. An erect or ascending 
glabrous annual, a foot or more high, with more or less prominently 
winged compressed branches, terminating in long bracteate racemes 0 
blue flowers. Leaves membranous, 1-2 in. long, serrulate, lower ones 
obovate or ovate-oblong, shortly petiolate, upper ones ovate-lanceolate 
or lanceolate attenuate at the base, sessile. Pedicels axillary, racemose, 
shorter or about as long as the linear bracts. Calyx-tube ovoid- 
obconical, equalling the linear lobes. Corolla three times as long 9 
the calyx-lobes. Capsule obovoid acute at the base.—L. Petersian4, 
humilis, pterocaulon, asperulata and subulata, Klotzsch in Peters Mos- 
samb. Bot. p. 299-302. Description chiefly from Sonder, Harv. and 
Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 548, 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar and Cabaceira, Peters ! Hildebrandt ! 
Thave followed Sonder in writing the five species described by Klotzsch under one, 
though I have only seen P. Petersiana, and I have not seen an authentic specimen © 
L. fervens, 
12. %. chireensis, Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 6. An erect, somewhat 
dichotomously branched, glabrous annual, less than a foot high, wit 
2- or 3-winged ciliate branches. Leaves lanceolate acute or awe 
indistinctly callonsly serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary, on peduncle 
