2380 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Verbascum. 
there glabrescent.—Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 101; Vatke in Oest. 
Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 9, and in Linnea, xliii. 305; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 375; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 135. J. 
somaliense, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 222. 
Nile Land. Nubia: near New Dongola, Ehrenberg. Darfur, Purdy, 117! 
Eritrea : various localities, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1314! 873! 732! Hildebrandt, 
416; Rohkifs § Stecker. Abyssinia : mountains near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 621! 
Jaja, Schimper, 307. Harre-Schoa, Schimper, 676; and without precise locality, 
Schimper, 845! Somaliland: Serrut Mountains, near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1408 ! 
Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole! Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
V. erianthum, Benth. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 108 (Wajerat, Petit), is 
probably not distinct from the above species. I have seen no African specimens, 
and can find nothing in Richard’s description by which to satisfactorily distinguish 
it. 
2. V. Schimperi, Shan. An erect biennial 10-18 in. high; 
stem simple or divided from the base, obscurely quadrangular, 
glabrous, or sparingly hairy in places, subglaucous. Leaves  gla- 
brous or with a few short hairs here and there on some of the nerves ; 
radical and lower cauline leaves up to 4 in. long, interruptedly pin- 
natifid, some of the segments very small, the terminal much the 
largest, elliptic or oblong and irregularly crenate-dentate ; petioles rather 
long near the base of the stem; becoming shorter above; upper leaves 
13-2} in. long, #-1 in. wide, sessile, elliptic, oblong or narrow-ovate, 
acute, cordate at the base, irregularly crenate-dentate. Raceme up to 
10 in, long, unbranched; bracts about 4 in. long, serrate, acuminate, 
cordate at the base; flowers solitary, rather distant (usually about 3 in. 
apart), occasionally subopposite; pedicels 14-2} lin. long, stout, 
glandular-pubescent Calyx 24-3 lin. long at the flowering stage, 
accrescent, deeply cleft, sparingly glandular-pubescent on the outside ; 
segments 14-2 lin. broad, broadly lanceolate or elliptic, slightly unequal, 
acute, distinctly and somewhat irregularly serrate. Corolla scarcely 
longer than the calyx, yellow. Filaments all bearded; anthers all 
veniform, and transverse, the uppermost smallest of all. Capsule 
rather longer than the calyx, broadly ovoid,—Celsia scrophulariefolia, 
Kngl. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 376, partly, not of Hochst. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Debra Tabor, 9200 ft., Schimper 
1398! 
5. CELSIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 929. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed or 5-partite ; lobes imbricate. Corolla rotate, 
with scarcely any tube; lobes 5, broad, slightly unequal, the posticous 
lobe outside. Stamens 4 (the fifth entirely wanting), didynamous OF 
subequal, affixed to the base of the corolla ; filaments of the posticous 
stamens or of all bearded; anthers transverse or oblique, 1-celled by 
confluence. Style entire, compressed, dilated atthe apex. Capsule 
globose or ovoid, septicidally 2-valved ; valves usually bifid, with inflexed 
margins exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds many, very small, 
transversely rugose, wingless.—Biennial or perennial herbs, with the 
habit of Verbascum, woolly or glabrous. Leaves alternate, crenate, 
