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3 in. long; upper tooth round-ovate, apiculate ; edges not decurrent ; 
lateral teeth lanceolate, as long as the upper; lower longer, lanceolate, 
very acuminate. Corolla blue, more than twice the length of the 
calyx. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, 2000 ft., 
Holst, 8895! 
30. ©, Camporum, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix.214. Stems 3-4 ft. 
long, glabrescent below, pubescent upwards. Leaves shortly petioled, 
fleshy, broadly ovate, 3-4 in. long, 14-21 in. broad, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed to the base, irregularly and deeply crenate, pubescent above, 
tomentose below. Inflorescence racemose, simple, terminal; whorls 
remote, 6—10-flowered ; bracts broadly ovate or orbicular, acuminate ; 
pedicels 43 in. long, clothed, like the calyx and axis, with long spreading 
hairs. Fruit-calyx 4 in. long; upper tooth round, obtuse ; edges slightly 
decurrent; the other teeth subequal, rather shorter than the upper, 
lanceolate-deltoid, acute, the lateral pair rather broader than the lower 
pair, which are not connate. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: at the foot of Rhinoceros Hill, near 
the ford of the Pangani, 2500 ft., Volkens. 
31. C. gymnostomus, Giirke in Hngl. Jahrb. xix.212. Perennial. 
Branches tomentose. Leaves distinctly petioled, thick, ovate, narrowed 
to the base, 2-21 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, obtuse or acuminate, crenate, 
subtomentose on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, terminal only ; 
whorls 6—10-flowered ; pedicels } in. long, clothed like the axis with 
Spreading whitish hairs. Calyx } in. long; tube broad, short, tomentose 
outside, naked within; upper tooth orbicular-cuspidate, with shortly 
decurrent edges ; the others lanceolate, acuminate. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: without precise locality, Fischer, 333. 
32. C. Welwitschii, Briguet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 185. A shrub, 
with trailing woody main stems and pubescent ascending branches. Leaves 
shortly petioled, ovate, with a cuneate base, obtuse, crenate, densely 
pubescent, 1-1} in. long. Inflorescence racemose, long, lax, simple ; 
whorls globose, many-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts ovate, acuminate, 
protruding beyond the young flowers. Flower-calyx } in. long; tube 
campanulate ; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube ; lower tooth ovate, 
much shorter, Corolla 4-1 in. long; lower lip as long as the tube. 
55 Lower Guinea. Angola: province of Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5585! 
89 ! 
33. CG, cuneatus, Puker f. in Journ. Bot. 1899, 64. Stems erect, 
Woody, clothed with red or fulvous pubescence. Leaves shortly petioled, 
cuneate or cuneate-oyate, 4-14 in. long, coriaceous, serrate or crenate 
upwards, entire near the base, minutely bullate beneath. Whorls 
simple ; lower nearly 1 in. apart; pedicels pubescent, longer than the 
flower-calyx. Calyx hairy ; upper tooth ovate, acute; lower triangular, 
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