Peliostomum.| XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 275 
Fleck, 473; mouth of the Tsoachaub (Swakop) River, Dinter, 73; Nels, 258 ; 
Ozongombo, Rautanen, 427. 
Also in South Africa. 
2. P. Lugarde, V. Z. Brown MSS. An erect perennial herb 
1-1} ft. high, branching from the base upwards, minutely scaberulous 
on the green parts. Leaves ascending or spreading, linear, up to 14 
in. long, 4-1 lin. broad, subacute, tapering at the base into a short 
petiole. Flowers axillary along the terminal parts of the branches. 
Peduncles #—-1 lin. long. Calyx-segments 23-3 lin. long, } lin, broad, 
narrowly linear, acute. Corolla very sparsely and minutely hairy out- 
side, bluish-mauve with a darker spot at the base of each lobe and 
veined with mauve on a white ground in the throat (Lugard); tube 44 
lin. long, slightly curved, funnel-shaped, about 2 lin. in diam. at the 
mouth ; constricted basal part much shorter than the calyx; limb 
oblique; lobes suborbicular, the lower about 2 lin. long and broad, the 
others about 14 lin. in diam. Filaments glabrous; anthers minutely 
pubescent. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 24-2? lin. long, slightly longer than 
the calyx, subobtuse. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, 3400 ft., 
Mrs. Lugard, 124! 
3. ANTICHARIS, Endl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 928. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments narrow, subvalvate. Corolla-tube dilated 
above; limb spreading; lobes 5, flat, subequal, rounded, the two 
posticous lobes outside. Stamens 2, anticous; filaments filiform ; 
anthers subtransverse, glabrous or sparingly pilose, 1-celled by con- 
fluence, horse-shoe- or half-moon-shaped before dehiscence, at length 
flattened out; staminodes 0. Style filiform, subclavate at the apex; 
stigma obtuse, entire or emarginate. Capsule ovate or oblong, sub- 
acuminate, 2-furrowed, loculicidal and septicidal ; valves bent inwards 
at the margins exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds numerous, 
small, oblong or obovoid, striate; embryo straight ; cotyledons ovate. 
—Dwarf erect herbs with glandular pubescence. Leaves entire. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, often with 2 small bracts.— 
Meisarrhena, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 63, name only. Doratanthera, 
Benth. in Endl. Gen. 685. Gerardiopsis, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359, 
and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 507. Distemon, Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex 
Aschers. in Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, 880. 
Species 9, 8 in Tropical Africa, 2 of which extend to Arabia and Western India, 
and 1 in South Africa, 
Anthers free. 
Bracts inserted above the middle of the peduncle; 
basal lobes of the anthers acuminate; leaves 
linear, acuminate. ; ; : : <2 ls A. nears. 
Bracts inserted at or below the middie of the peduncle ; 
basal lobes of the anthers obtuse; leaves linear- 
lanceolate to oblong or elliptic. 
Leaves often narrow, rather acute; capsule twice 
aslongasthe calyx. j : : . 2. A. arabica. 
