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9, T. hookeriana, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 38. A 
shrub of 2-3 ft., with slender quadrangular branches, glabrous. Leaves 
on very short petioles, lanceolate or trapezoid-lanceolate, somewhat 
acute, entire or with a large tooth on each margin, 3-nerved, 13-3 in. 
long, $—3 in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces, darker above. Flowers 
two together from the axil of a leaf, on short peduncles; bracteoles 
$ in. long, oblong, somewhat acute, green. Calyx-teeth short, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube 1} in. long; lobes violet-blue, retuse. Stamens hairy at 
their insertion; anthers with a very short spur at the base of each 
lobe, glabrous. Stigma with 2 short lips—7Z. Kirkii, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 
t. 6677, not 7’. kirkiana, T. Anders. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Wakefield! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, cultivated specimen, Airk / 
10. 'T. annua, /ochst. ex Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 55. A weak herb, 
branching from the root. Stems with long white hairs when young. 
Leaves sessile, narrow, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to an acute base, 
obtuse or rounded above, with scattered hairs along the veins of the 
lower surface, 4 in, long and ? in. broad. Flowers on short peduncles ; 
bracteoles ovate, strongly keeled and pilose along the keel, 5—7-nerved. 
Calyx-teeth rather short. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the 
bracteoles, 8 lin. long, rather narrow; lobes 14 lin. long. Anthers 
with 2 fine spurs, one at the base of each lobe, and hairy at the base ; 
lobes nearly equal. Stigma with two broad lips, the upper slightly the 
longer. Capsule thin-walled, pubescent; the fertile part orbicular ; the 
beak arising from it very abruptly. Seeds smooth.—Hochst. in Flora 
1841, Intell. bl. 48 (name only); Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
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118. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Goelleb, on the River Tacazze, in damp fields at 4000 ft., 
Schimper, 2152! Cordofan: Mount Arasch-Cool, on the margins of stagnant pools, 
Kotschy, 109! Abu-Gerad, Cienkowsky (ex Solms); and withont precise locality, 
Kotschy, 97} 
Var. Ruspolii, Burkill. More hairy, than the type. Leaves subtruncate at the 
base, hirsute. Bracteoles hirsute.—Z', Ruspolii, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
vi. 67. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: between Oi and Jaribule, Riva, 108. 
11. T. hispida, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 113 (not of 
Lindau), Stem erect, hispid, quadrangular. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 
sessile, hispid with white hairs, about 1 in. long, scarcely } in. wide ; 
nerves prominent below. Flowers on peduncles 2-3 lin. long ; bracteoles 
ovate, acuminate. Calyx-teeth many, becoming woody at the maturity 
of the fruit. Flower unknown. Capsule nearly 1 in. long, glandular. 
Seeds nearly round, ribbed. 
Nile Land. Sennar: near Roseres, Cienkowsky. 
F Owing to the want of flowers the exact position of this species must remain 
onbtful. 
12. T. paulitschkeana, G. v. Beck in Paulitschke, Harar,459, t. 12. 
A climber; stem rather thin, hispid. Leaves sessile, oblong-rhomboid, 
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