272 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ Aptosimum. 
several, in shortly pedunculate dichasia in the axils of the leaves of the 
longer branches. Calyx 3} lin. long, covered with cilia-like and several- 
celled conical hairs inside and outside, glandular-hairy towards the ends. 
of the segments ; tube 1} lin. long ; segments twice as long as the tube, 
gradually narrowed from the base to the apex, shortly mucronate. 
Corolla 10-12 lin. long, ciliate outside. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Wels, 257. 
11. A, suberosum, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2” sér. iii. 904. A 
dwarf very much branched undershrub forming a tuft about 8 in. in 
diam. ; branches creeping about } in. in diam. at the base, surrounded 
by acleft corky layer 14-2 lin. thick. Leaves sessile, imbricate, suc- 
culent, lanceolate, 6-7} lin. long, 1-24 lin. broad, glabrous, white on 
the margin, with a persistent and finally corky base; midrib strongly 
prominent on the underside. Flowers wanting in the specimen 
described. Calyx in the fruiting stage about 34 lin. long, glabrous ; 
tube 1} lin. long; segments twice as long as the tube. Capsule 
obovoid, about 24 lin. long, glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; south of the 
Etosapfanne, Dinter, 749. ; 
12. A. decumbens, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 184. 
Branches decumbent, terete, densely and shortly glandular-pubescent, 
glabrescent at the base, leafy. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, 
lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 2-34 lin. 
broad, usually rather crowded, broadest at or above the middle, obtuse 
or rarely acute, shortly glandular-pubescent, slightly scabrid ; midrib 
prominent on the underside, not persistent. Flowers axillary, usually 
solitary, sometimes 2 or more together, very shortly pedunculate. 
Bracts narrowly linear, + in. long, acute, pubescent. Calyx glandular- 
pubescent ; tube iess than 1 lin. long ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, 
faintly 1-nerved. Corolla purple, about 3 in. long, densely and shortly 
glandular-puberulous outside; lobes broadly obovate, subequal, about 
24 lin. in diam. Anthers with a tuft of long hairs at the apex. Style 
as long as the corolla-tube. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broadly 
obovate, slightly emarginate, puberulous.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 755, partly; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 361. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo towards Empalanca, Wel- 
witsch, 5803! by the Kubango River, near Kalolo, 3600 ft., Bawm, 432! German 
South-west Africa: Hereroland; Léideritz. Amboland; Olukonda, Schinz, 435 
Dammaraland, Een ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; Fanda-ma-Tenka, Holub! 
roties Falls, dllen, 105! Ngamiland; Okavango Valley, 3000 ft., Lugard, 
13. A. molle, Skan. A densely glandular-pilose undershrub ; 
stems decumbent, simple or branched, up to 18 in. long, densely covered 
with rather long slender white glandular hairs; internodes }-3 1- 
long. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, 1-14 in, long, 23-33 lin. broad, 
broadest just below the middle, narrowed gradually and slightly from 
above the middle to the apex, obtuse and rounded at the apex or some- 
