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Calyx-segments 5, free nearly to the base. 
Leaves 34 in. long, ovate, acute, base subcordate 10. R. amabilis. 
Leaves 2 in. long, ovate, subobtuse . . - 11. RB. megachlamys. 
Calyx with the 2 anticous segments connate some 
way up . . . . . . . 12. R. bignoniceflora. 
Corolla-tube upper half greatly inflated . . . 13. R. Currori, 
** Ku-Ruzuura. Capsule oblong-cylindric. Seeds dis- 
tributed nearly its whole length. 
Leaves with long white soft hairs . . . . . 14, BR. diversifolia. 
Leaves closely densely pubescent . . . . . 15. BR. Marlothii. 
1. R. patula, Jacq. Misc. Bot. ii. 358. Small shrub, grey pubescent 
or sparsely hairy. Leaves from 4 by } to 2} by 1} in., ovate or elliptic, 
obtuse or tip depressed-triangular, suddenly narrowed into a petiole 
3-l in. long. Cymes small, axillary; bracteoles 2 or 3 times the 
length of the calyx, spathulate-oblong, often petioled. Calyx rarely 
exceeding in. in length, deeply divided ; segments subequal, acute. 
Corolla up to 14 in. long, purple-blue or white; tube much inflated, 
linear-cylindric portion } in. long (small examples with corolla ? in. 
long and small leaves and capsules are common). Ovary glabrous, 
glandular close to the style-base. Capsule } in. long, clavate.—Jacq. 
Ic. Pl. Rar. i, 12, t. 119; Lam. Ill. t. 550; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vii, 24; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 127; C. B. Clarke 
in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 412; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 388 ; 
Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 310, fig. 124, E, F, 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. t. 1, fig. 24, in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C., 368, and in 
Ann. Istit. bot. Roma vi. [1896] 70. R. prostrata, Lam. Encycl. vi. 
349 from descript.; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 282. 2. matutina, Hochst. 
et Steud. ex Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 94. Dipteracanthus patulus, Nees in 
Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. iii. 82 & in DC. Prod. xi. 126; Wight Ic. Pl. 
Ind. Or. t. 1505 ; Oersted in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 1854, 180, t. 4, 
figs. 19-21; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Fl. Athiop. 109, 243. 
D. matutinus, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 94. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Brass! 
Nile Land. Nubia: near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 125! 300! 397! Nubian 
Coast, Bent ! Schweinfurth, 3671! Eritrea: Massowa, Hildebrandt, 725! near Saati, 
weinfurth & Riva, 284! 318! Keren, Steudner, 1496! Habab, 6000 ft., Hilde- 
brandt, 452! 161! Kordofan, Kotschy, 1191 1598! Pfund, 317! 424! Abyssinia: 
Salt ! Ehrenberg! Rohlfs d: Stecker! Schimper, 268! Tigré, 6500 ft.. Schimper, 
229! Somaliland: at Adda Galla, Darror, and Harradigit, James & Thrupp! Dobar 
Weni, and Gooban Plain, Miss E. Cole d: Mrs. Lort Phillips! Abl Mountains, 3250 ft., 
Rildebrandt, 1403! British East Africa: Madi, Speke & Grant! Tana River, 
» 90! Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 2927 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 5069! 5121! 5127! 5139! 
5186 ! Elephant Bay, Curror, 21! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk: ! Hildebrandt, 984! 1833! German East 
Africa ; Tanga, Holst, 2075! British Central Africa: Matabeleland, Hlliott! Ngami- 
land; Kwebe, Lugard, 45! 49! 68! 
2. R. pretermissa, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 15. Leaves up to 
3 by 19 in., ovate, tip narrow-triangular subacute, thinly inspersed by 
cystoliths and a few hairs on both faces; otherwise as &. patula.— 
Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 310. 
