Aptosimum.| XCII. SCROPHULARIACE& (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 271 
linear-lanceolate, 14-2} in. long, 14-2} lin. broad, acute, scabrid on 
both surfaces, often with tufts of small leaves in their axils: Flowers 
subsessile. Calyx-tube very short; segments broadly oblanceolate, 
} in. long, broadest above the middle, acute, l-nerved. Corolla about 
? in. long, the narrowest part of the tube as long as the calyx, sparingly 
pilose outside; lobes broadly obovate, subequal. Anthers slightly 
hairy. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broadly obovate, compressed at 
the apex, slightly emarginate, pubescent.—Engl. & Gilg in Baum, 
Kunene-Samb.-Exped. 361. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Ediva, 2900 ft., Baum, 24. German 
South-west Africa: Dammaraland; Salem, Lindner! Otyimbingue, Marloth, 
1254! between Otyikango and Otyimbingue, Schinz, 6! 
8. A. Welwitschii, /iern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i.755. An 
undershrub branched from the base. Branches decumbent or ascending, 
4-12 in. long, leafy and densely pubescent above, more or less leafless 
and subglabrate below, spiny chiefly below; hairs pale-subfulvous, 
glandular, spreading; spines 4-1 in. long, straight. Leaves linear- 
oblanceolate, 1-14 in. long, 14-2 lin. broad, pointed at the apex, much 
attenuated at the base, subscabrid, densely glandular-hairy. Flowers 
solitary, subsessile. Bracts 14-3 lin. long, linear, hairy. Calyx 4—} 
in. long, deeply toothed’; teeth linear, hairy outside, glabrous inside. 
Corolla 2-3 in. long, membranous, veined, glandular-hairy outside. 
Fertile anthers 2, somewhat hispid or ciliate. Style nearly $ in. long. 
Capsule 2 lin. long, shortly hairy. Young seeds papillose. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, by the River Maiombo at A Maiombo, 
Welwitsch, 5816! 
9. A. angustifolium, Ieber d: Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2" 
sér. tii. 896. An undershrub everywhere shortly glandular-pilose, 
branched near the base; branches 5 or 6, 8-10 in. high, 14-1} lin. 
thick, erect. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear, 1{-2 in. long, 
1} lin. broad, narrowed to the base, glandular-pilose on both sides, 
furnished on the margins and on the underside of the midrib with short 
conical hairs; midrib persistent, forming a slender thorn 6-7} lin. 
long. Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx only 14-2 lin. long ; segments 
narrowly lanceolate, acute, broadest at the base, glandular-pilose on 
both sides. Corolla 84-12 lin. long, sparingly furnished with cilia and 
glandular hairs; lobes rounded-oval, somewhat unequal, 2-2} lin. 
broad. Anthers ciliate. Capsule 2 lin. long, pilose. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; between Korekas 
Fley and Anigab, Belck, 26; Liideritz, 190. 
10. A. Schinzii, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2” sér., 1. 901. 
An undershrub with a creeping few-branched stem ; branches long and 
very short ; long branches 6 in. long, with longer more distant leaves, 
ascending ; short branches densely covered with shorter leaves. — 
of the long branches linear-lanceolate, about 2] in. long and 23 lin. 
broad, almost horizontal; midrib persistent, spinescent. Flowers 
