Manulea. | XCII, SCROPHULARIACEH® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 299 
1, M. angolensis, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 478. An erect 
annual or biennial herb 14-24 ft. high; root thick, sometimes more 
or less turnip-shaped; stem stout, simple, sparingly and minutely 
glandnlar-puberulous, terete, scantily leafy. Radical leaves 1-1} in. 
long, 3-4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, much at- 
tenuated at the base, obscurely and remotely crenate-serrate, sparingly 
and minutely glandular-puberulous, forming a loose rosette; cauline 
leaves distant, alternate, similar to the radical leaves. Thyrsus few- 
branched, 1-14 ft. long; cymes distant, shortly stalked; flowers 
crowded, sessile. Calyx 3-1 lin. long, dusky orange-coloured ; seg- 
ments spathulate-linear, much thickened at the apex, obtuse, ciliate. 
Corolla 23-3 lin. long, orange-coloured, nearly glabrous, subringent ; 
tube somewhat inflated on the posticous side at the apex; limb 1 lin. 
in diameter ; lobes oblong, scarcely 3 lin. long, less than } lin. broad, 
subequal. Stamens included ; lower anthers perfect, oblong, the upper 
reniform, imperfect, very much smaller than the lower. Style filiform, 
2 lin. long. Capsule 1 lin. long, broadly ovoid.—Nemia angolensis, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 757. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Welwitsch, 5836! near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 
5835 ! 
17. SUTERA, Roth, Bot. Bemerk. 172, not of Nov. Pl. Sp. 291. 
Calyx usually 5-partite, sometimes 5-lobed ; segments or lobes linear, 
lanceolate or rarely ovate, imbricate, not membranous. Corolla decidu- 
ous, tubular; tube shorter or much longer than the calyx, usually 
Slender, cylindric below or funnel-shaped, nearly straight or more or 
less curved towards the apex, gibbous on the upper side near the apex 
or more or less dilated at the throat or sometimes nearly entirely 
cylindric; limb spreading, 5-lobed, more or less regular or 2-lipped ; 
lobes entire, emarginate or bifid, subequal, imbricate in bud, the 2 
uppermost outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, attixed to the corolla- 
tube, more or less exserted or the upper or all of them included ; fila- 
ments filiform; anthers all perfect, 1-celled by confluence, reniform. 
Style filiform, included or exserted, somewhat clavate above; stigma 
obtuse. Capsule septicidal ; valves bifid. Seeds many, small, rugose.— 
Glabrous, pubescent, sometimes viscid herbs, undershrubs or small shrubs 
often drying blackish. Leaves mostly opposite, dentate, incised or 
dissected, rarely entire. Bracts usually similar to the leaves, free 
from the pedicels. Flowers axillary or in terminal racemes or in 
simple or compound cymes or spikes; pedicels ebracteolate or rarely 
bracteolate.—Chanostoma, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 374, 
and in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 945. Zyperia, Benth. in Hook. 
Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 945. 
Camptoloma, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 430, and in Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 960. Urbania, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 10. 
Species 123, most numerous in South Africa; 1 in the Canary Islands. 
