Aptosimum.| XCII, SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 273 
times subacute, densely glandular-pilose on both sides, hairs very slender, 
unequal, usually longest on the margin and on the underside of tle 
midvib; midrib prominent below, not persistent. Flowers axillary, 
solitary or sometimes 2 together, often accompanied by a short branch, 
very shortly pedunculate. Bracts linear, 2? lin. long, rather more than 
} lin. brcad, obtuse, shortly glandular-pubescent on both sides, lony- 
glandular-ciliate. Calyx 3 lin. long, divided nearly to the base; seg- 
ments linear, 3-3} lin. long, } lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed 
to the apex, acute, densely glandular-pilose, with very long hairs on the 
margin, Corolla about 8 lin. long, minutely and sparingly glandular- 
pubescent outside; tube 7 lin. long; narrowed basal part 2 lin. long; 
inflated upper part about 23 lin. broad; lobes broadly obovate, 2~2} lin. 
long, 1#-2 lin. broad. Anthers ciliate. Style as long as the corolla- 
tube. Capsule broadly obovate, about 23 lin. long, 2 lin. broad at the 
apex, minutely glandular-puberulous, ciliate at the apex. —A. decumbens, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 755, partly, not of Schinz. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bumbo, Welwitsch, 5804! 
14. A. elongatum, Fngl. in Hngl. Jahrb. x. 249. A procumbent 
undershrub; branches slender, a few inches to a foot long, terete, 
pilose. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 
4-3 in. long, mucronate, sparingly pilose or sometimes nearly glabres- 
cent above. Flowers longer, usually much longer than the leaves, 
solitary, shortly pedunculate. Calyx-tube very short ; segments 3 or | 
times as long as the tube, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, prominently 
l-nerved, ciliate and more or less pilose. Corolla about ? in. long, dark- 
blue, sparingly pilose outside; lobes nearly equal, suborbicular. A nthers 
slightly pubescent. Style somewhat exserted. Capsule ovoid, slightly 
shorter than the calyx, puberulous. Seeds about # lin. long, angular, 
scrobiculate.—S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 467. A. depresswm, var. 
elongatum, Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 131. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Mashonaland, Bryce / Bechuana- 
rg Elephants Kloof, Chapman & Baines! and without precise locality, Rand, 
Also in South Africa. 
15. A. pubescens, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2” sér. ii. 903. 
Resembles 4, elongatum, Engl. An undershrub branched from the 
base; branches procumbent, ascending at the apex, 12-16 in. long, 
2-2} lin. thick at the base, long-pilose. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, about 74 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, sparingly glandujar 
and pilose on both sides, gradually cuneate at the base; midrib strongly 
prominent on the underside. Flowers axillary, sessile, exceeding the 
leaves, Calyx 24 lin. long, divided almost to the base; segments 
narrowly lanceolate, somewhat unequal, broadest in the upper third, 
glandular and pilose inside and outside, ciliate on the margin. Corolla 
about 10 lin. long, chiefly glandular-hairy outside. Filaments of the 
upper stamens 2 lin. long and of the lower 4-44 lin. long ; anthers 
Shortly ciliate.—Style about 10 lin. long.— A. eriocephalum, var. pubescens, 
Diels ex Weber l.c. 
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