278 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Anticharis. 
at the apex. Ovary conical, acute; style slightly longer than the 
stamens. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Liideritz. 
>. A. imbricata, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb, xxxi, 187. 
A densely glandular-pubescent undershrub. Leaves 23—5 lin. long, 
33-6 lin. broad, crowded, completely concealing the branches, imbricate, 
broadly ovate, slightly cordate at the base, acute, sessile. Peduncles 
scarcely more than I in. long; bracts | lin. long, subulate, inserted at 
the middle of the peduncle. Calyx 2-3} lin. long, deeply cleft; seg- 
ments linear or linear-lanceolate, slightly unequal, shortly acuminate. 
Corolla % in. long, sparingly glandular-pubescent outside. Anthers 
coherent, with a tuft of hairs at the apex. Style exserted; stigma 
capitate. Capsule 14 lin. longer than the calyx, narrow-ovoid, acumi- 
nate or beaked. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Omaruru, Schinz, 
744! and without precise locality, Liideritz, Schenck, 434. 
6. A. aschersoniana, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 
188. A decumbent slender much-branched glandular-pubescent annual 
from a few inches to 1 or 2 ft. high, usually becoming black in drying. 
Leaves 1-1} in. long, 4—5 lin. broad, narrow-oblanceolate or lanceolate 
to linear, acute, attenuated at the base. Peduncles 12-14 lin. long, 
slender; bracts 1-2 lin. long, subulate, usually opposite, inserted below 
the middle of the peduncle (about 4 lin. from the base). Calyx about 
2} lin. long; segments linear, shortly acuminate, subequal. Corolla 
3—? in. long, sparingly pilose on the outside ; lobes 2 lin. long, 2-2 lin. 
broad. Anthers coherent, ciliate. Capsule somewhat longer than the 
calyx, narrow-ovoid, slightly contracted near the apex.— Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 756. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 
5815! near Mata dos Carpenteiros, Welwitsch, 5814! and without precise locality, 
Newton. 
Welwitsch 5814 has less spreading branches, longer and narrower leaves, and 
the bracts inserted above the middle of the pedunele. 
7. A. inflata, Vari. & Engl.in Engl. Jahrb. x. 251. A glandular- 
pubescent annual about 5 in. high ; stem simple, densely leafy. Leaves 
Z-1 in. long, about 5 lin. broad, oblong, somewhat obtuse; petioles of 
the lower leaves 5-7} lin. long, of the upper leaves shorter. Peduncles 
about 2} lin. long, slender; bracts linear, very slender. Calyx-seg- 
ments 2} lin. long, about } lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla- 
tube 5—7 lin. long, curved forwards, pale blue with dark violet spots on 
the inside at the back; lobes about 14 lin. broad, suborbicular, 
blue, dark violet at the base. Filaments about 5 lin. long, twisted at 
the apex; anthers oblong-linear, curved, coherent and ciliate at the 
apex. Style longer than the stamens. Capsule oblong-ovoid, acute. 
Seeds ovoid, longitudinally many-winged. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Usakos, 2950 ft., 
Marloth, 1483. 
