Aptosimum.| XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 269 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Nels, 253. 
Ozongombo, Rautanen, 426. 
3. A. lineare, Marl. & Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 250. A dwarf 
branched czspitose undershrub ; branches up to 6 in. long, often very 
short, densely leafy. Leaves linear, 2-4 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, acute, 
pubescent and usually conspicuously ciliate at the base: pubescence 
sometimes ferruginous ; midribs rigid, thick, persistent and spinescent. 
Flowers sessile. Bracts narrowly linear, 24 lin. long. Calyx-segments. 
4 in. long, linear, acute, ciliate and sparingly glandular-pubescent, 
prominently l-nerved. Corolla about } in. long, blue, pilose outside ; 
lobes broadly obovate, subequal. Lower pair of stamens two-thirds as 
long as the corolla; anthers pilose. Style as long as the corolla-tube. 
Capsule about 1 lin. shorter than the calyx, broadly obovate, emarginate, 
compressed at the apex, sparingly pubescent, reticulate. Seeds black, 
scrobiculate—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 755, and in Dyer, FI. 
Cap. iv. ii. 129. 4. Randii, 8S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1899, 171, and 
1900, 467. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; base of Serra de Montes Negros,. 
Welwitsch, 5817! Caldeira do Inferno, Welwitsch, 5818! German South-west 
ea Dammaraland, Schinz, 36! Lindner! Hereroland; Usakos, Marloth, 
41! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Matabeleland; Bulawayo, Hon. 
Mrs, Evelyn Cecil, 115! Gardner, 63! Rand, 180! and without precise locality, 
Elliott! North Kalahari Desert: near T’Klakane Pits, Inugard, 230! South 
African Gold Fields, Baines ! 
Also in South Africa, 
Var. ciliatum, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér., iii. 897. Branches longer, 
erect, very corky in the lower part. Leaves linear, narrowed, towards the base, 
long-ciliate on the margins from the base to the middle. Spines stronger, 10-12 lin. 
long, 2 lin. thick at the base. Capsule 2-23 lin. long, shortly hairy. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Liideritz, 104, 7a, 
Nels, 254, Otyowazondu, Rautanen. 
Also in South Africa, 
Var. acaule, Weber, l.c. 898. Primary axis very short (scarcely 5 lin. long). 
Leaves glabrous. Corolla tomentose-ciliate outside; narrow lower part of the tube 
2 or 8 times longer than the upper inflated part. Capsule glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Nortn Hereroland (Upingtonia) ; 
Tscheweb, Schinz, 515. : 
Var. angolense, Weber, l.c. 898. Branches longer (about 6 in, long) ; internodes 
23-5 lin. long. Leaves linear, very shortly pilose, about 3 in. long, 2 lin, broad. 
Bracts equalling the calyx-segments. Calyx-segments glandular inside. Corolla 
sparingly ciliate outside. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Newton. 
I have seen no specimens of the above varieties. 
4. A, glandulosum, Weber d: Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2” 
sér. iii, 899. A glandular-pubescent branched undershrub, about 3 in. 
high. eaves narrowly linear, up to 24 in. long, acute, crowded so as 
to conceal the stem, conduplicate in. the dried state, densely and 
shortly glandular-pubescent, somewhat scabrid; lower part of mid- 
rib persistent and spinescent. Flowers solitary, or rarely 2 together, 
