282 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ Celsia. 
times obscurely few-toothed in the broadest part; pedicels 9-10 lin. 
long, ascending. Calyx 3} lin. long; segments lanceolate, acuminate, 
2 lin. broad. Corolla yellow, 3-3 in. in diam. Capsule (immature) 
subglobose, glabrous, much shorter than the calyx.—Benth. in DC. 
Prodr.x. 246, partly ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 111, partly ? Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 375, partly. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Samen, Riippel, and without precise locality, 
Schimper, 521! 
2. GC. valerianzefolia, 4. Rich. Tent. Vl. Abyss. ii. 112. A 
slender biennial, 14-3 ft. high, glabrous or more or less glandular 
hairy ; stem erect, branched, herbaceous. Leaves interruptedly pinnate 
or sometimes simple, up to 5 in. long; pinnate leaves 4—5 in. long; 
terminal leaflet about 2 in. long and 11 in. broad, ovate or elliptic, 
irregularly crenate-dentate; lateral leatlets 4-1 in. long, crenate- 
dentate, sessile with a broad base or shortly stalked and cuneate at the 
base ; simple leaves elliptic or oblong, less than 1 in. long, sessile or 
shortly petiolate, more or less toothed. Raceme simple or with ascend- 
ing branches; bracts cordate at the base, acuminate, 24—3 lin. long, 
obscurely toothed; pedicels 4-4 in. long, glandular-hairy. Calyx 
21-3 lin. long, minutely glandular-hairy outside; segments oblong- 
lanceolate or elliptic, 4—? lin. broad, acute. Corolla yellow, 6-7 lin, 1n 
diam. Filaments all bearded ; anthers of the shorter stamens reniform, 
transverse, and of the longer somewhat oblique. Capsule subglobose, 
34-4 lin. long —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376. C. interrupta, 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 246, partly; A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 111, 
partly? Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 375, partly, not of Fresen. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; Shireh, Petit; on the Jogarti, Schimper, 
514! near Memsach, Quartin-Dillon ; Besa, 5500 ft., Schimper, 94! 
3. C. pedunculosa, Steud. & Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. *. 
245. A slender divaricately branched scantily-leaved undershrub; 
branches minutely puberulous, Leaves simple, or rarely with 1 or 2 
minute segments on the petiole just below the blade, petiolate except 
few sessile small entire upper ones, minutely puberulous chiefly on the 
nerves on the underside, crenate or irregularly crenate-dentate, narrowly 
ovate to oblong, }~-1$ in. long, obtuse or acute. Panicle lax, usually 
much branched ; bracts 13-2} lin. long, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, slightly attenuated at the base, glabrous or with a few minute 
hairs ; pedicels 3-1 in. long, glabrous or nearly so. Calyx 14-1} lin. 
long, glabrousor subglabrous; segments oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acute. 
Corolla about 7 lin. in diam., yellow. Capsule 4 lin. longer than the 
calyx, ovoid, glabrous.—A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. ii. 111. C. interrupta, 
var. pedunculosa, Vatke in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 379, partly. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Dongherghera; Mount Bizen, 6560 ft., Schweinfurth S 
Riva, 1867! Hamasen; Sasaga, Steudner, 814. Abyssinia: Tigre; Mount — 
yata, Schimper, 222! Abba-Matha, Schimper, 500! : 
Var. pubescens, Skan. Leaves often (always?) pinnate, up to 33 in. long, with 
a large terminal leaflet and 1-3 distant pairs of small shortly stalked lateral ones 
