Stemodiopsis.] XCIi. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 315 
Leaves ovate; petiole 3-18 lin. long; pedicels very 
much shorter than the leaves, 
Plant very sparingly pubescent or almost glabrous; 
corolla 2-24 lin. long : : : : - 2, S. Buchanani, 
Plant densely pubescent; corolla 4 lin, long. . 8. 8S. humilis, 
1. S. Rivee, Hnyl. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 25, Subshrubby ; 
stems curved-ascending, very much branched, densely and shortly 
cinereous-pilose on the younger parts and on the petioles, at length 
glabrescent ; primary branches 6-10 in. long, the secondary and tertiary 
shorter. Leaves sputhulate ; blade 14-24 lin. long and broad, few- 
toothed in the upper part, very shortly and sparsely pilose on both 
sides, narrowed at the base into a slender petiole 1-14 lin. long. 
Flowers solitary ; pedicels nearly as long as the leaves; bracteoles 
subulate, } lin. long. Calyx shortly and sparsely pilose; segments 
1}-1} lin. long. Corolla very minutely pilose; tube 2} lin. long; 
upper lip about 1 lin. long; lobes of the lower lip ? lin. long. Fila- 
ments of the longer stamens about i} lin. long, of the shorter ; lin. 
long; anther-cells } lin. long; staminode 3 lin. long. Ovary ellipsoid- 
conical, about 14 lin. long —Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 497, t. 7, figs. A-F. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Galla Territory; Mount Robé, near the source of 
the River Daua, Riva, 162. 
2. S. Buchanani, Shan. A perennial herb about 6 in. high, 
furnished chiefly on the leaves with a few weak scattered hairs and 
somewhat pulverulent or almost glabrous; stem procumbent, sometimes 
rooting, rather woody, about 1 lin. thick, subterete, very much branched : 
branches very weak and slender, ascending, angular, 3-6 in. long; 
internodes 3-14 lin. long. Leaves ovate; blade 3-16 lin. long, 2-8 lin. 
broad, acute, more or less cuneate at the base, very thin, dentate ; teeth, 
usually 5 each side, rather coarse in the larger leaves ; petiole 3-18 lin. 
long, narrowly 3-winged, Flowers solitary or sometimes in 3-flowered 
cymes ; pedicels filiform, {-14 lin. long, ascending in flower, sharply 
decurved in fruit; bracteoles very narrowly linear, }—% lin. long. 
Calyx-segments narrowly linear-triangular, slightly unequal, 1}-1} lin. 
long, }-4 lin. broad at the base. Corolla 2~2} lin. long ; tube 14-1} lin. 
long, about 2 lin. broad at the base, slightly enlarged upwards : upper 
lip broadly ovate, about ? lin. long and 1 lin. broad at the base; lobes 
minute, rounded or somewhat triangular ; lower lip broadly obovate or 
suborbicular, about % lin, long, ?~14 lin. broad ; lobes minute, rounded ; 
palate pubescent. Filaments of the longer stamens about 1 lin. long, 
of the shorter about } lin. long; staminode about $ lin. long, inserted 
near the base of the corolla-tube, sometimes absent. Style scarcely 
1 lin. long. Capsule ellipsoid-conical, 2}~-3 lin. long, rather abruptly 
beaked, 2-furrowed, turned downwards; beak i-1} lin. long. Seeds 
cylindric, 4-2 lin. long, nearly } lin. thick, whitish, very slightly 
several-furrowed. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 365! = ! 
I have not seen a specimen of S. Rive, the type of Stemodiopsis, but, judging 
