Limnophila.| Xci1. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 319 
Lower Guinea. Angola: River Quiriri, near Sakkemecho, 3900 ft., Baum, 
729! 
6. L. gratioloides, 2. Br. Prodr.i. 442. Stems slender, glabrous 
or minutely glandular-pubescent above, branched or simple, from a few 
inches to upwards of 2 ft. (usually about 6 in.) long. Leaves very 
variable ; lower submerged ones in whorls of 6 to many, usually multifid ; 
upper whorled or sometimes opposite, dentate, incised or multifid ; 
uppermost opposite, linear to elliptic-oblong. Flowers axillary ; pedicels 
2-6 lin, long, usually glandular-pubescent ; bracteoles setaceous, obtuse, 
1-1} lin.long. Calyx 2-24 lin. long, membranous, glandular-pubescent 
and gland-dotted ; teeth # lin. long, scarcely acute. Corolla 3-4 lin. 
long. Anthers coherent in pairs, or those of the shorter stamens alone 
coherent ; cells very shortly stipitate. Style bent near the apex with 
2 minute auricles at the bend. Capsule somewhat shorter than the 
calyx, glabrous.—Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 271; 8. Moore in Journ. 
Bot. 1900, 467. Ambulia gratioloides, Baill. ex Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 
397; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 401. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 230! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2603 ! 
Gazelle River, at the mouth of the Bahr el Arab, Schweinfurth, 1186! 
Mozamb. Dist. German Eust Africa : Northern Kinga Mountains; Ussangu, 
4000 ft., Goetze, 1030! Portuguese East Africa! Quilimane, Scott! British 
Central Africa: Rhodesia ; Salisbury, Rand, 518! 
Also in Beluchistan, India, China, Malaya and Australia. 
Var. nana, Skan. An erect herb 1~13 in. high. Leaves in crowded whorls of 
6-8, 23-33 lin. long, multifid ; segments 4-14 lin. long, narrowly linear, Flowers 
subterminal. Corolla white. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe; sandy margin of a small lake 
near Jeba, Barter, 1709! 
23. MONIERA, B. Juss. ex P. Browne, Hist. Jamaic., 269, t. 28, 
fig. 3. 
_ Calyx 5-partite; segments imbricate; posticous broader; lateral 
IMnermost, often very narrow. Corolla-tube cylindric ; lips spreading ; 
upper outside, emarginate or 2-lobed ; lower 3-lobed ; lobes all equal 
or the 2 upper more connate. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 
anthers approximated in pairs or subdistant ; cells contiguous, distinct, 
parallel or divergent. Style dilated at the apex, entire or shortly 
2-lobed; stigma terminal. Capsule globose or ovoid, bisulcate, 
loculicidal and usually septicidal; valves 2 or 4. Seeds many, 
small.—Erect, diffuse, prostrate or floating herbs, glabrous or more 
rarely pubescent, often punctate. Leaves opposite, quite entire, den- 
tate or, in aquatic species, multisect into capillary segments when 
submerged. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile or pedunculate, or the 
upper racemose ; peduncles 1- or 2-bracteate or naked. Corolla yellow, 
pale blue or white. Hypogynous disk in some species many-toothed or 
