Moniera.] XC. SCROPHULARIACEE. (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 321 
winged near the calyx; bracts 2, about 3 lin. long, setaceous. Calyx 
3 lin. long to 5 lin. long in the fruiting stage; posticous segment 
broadly ovate, 24-3 lin. broad, obtuse, thin, distinctly reticulate ; the 
2 anticous segments similar but somewhat narrower; lateral shorter, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, minutely ciliate on the margins and 
keel. Corolla white, slightly longer than the calyx; upper lip 
emarginate; lower lip deeply 3-lobed: lobes emarginate. Style 1 lin. 
long, emarginate-capitate at the apex. Capsule 2 lin. long, ellipsoid. 
obtuse, densely gland-dotted. Seeds ellipsoid, regularly areolate.— 
Herpestis calycina, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 57, and in 
DC. Prodr. x. 399; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. viii. 65. Bacopa calycina, 
Engl. in Schlechter, Westafrik. Kautsch.-Exped. 313; De Wild. & 
Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™* sér, i., 832; De Wild. Etud. Fl. Bas- 
et Moyen-Congo, i. 73. 
Upper Guinea. Senégambia, Perrottet/ Senegal, Leprieur, 214! Togo: 
near Lome, Warnecke, 226! Northern Nigeria: Borgu, Barter, 16Y0! 
Nile Land. Bongo: Dukutu (Duggudu),Schweinfurth, 2837 ! 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: island near Ponta da Lenha, Naumann ; 
Ntawo Falls, near Stanley Pool, Hens, 27! Stanley Pool, Schlechter, 12559! 
betveen Dembo and Kisantu, Gillet, 1576. Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 5918! 
Goiungo Alto; near Calolo, Welwitsch, 5909! Cazengo; near Dalatanda, Wel- 
witsch, 1262! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5875! 5877 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: between Leopoldville and Mombazi, 
Gillet, 2552. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanguebar, Kirk ! 
Var. Thonningii, Benth. in DC. Prodr, x. 399. Leaves narrower than the calyx- 
segments.— H. Thonningii, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 58. rinus 
¢fricanus, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 278? not of Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathman. Ashanti: Ningo, Thonning. 
3. M.decumbens, Skan. A rather stout glandular-punctate herb 
1-2 ft. high, erect or decumbent at the base; stem quadrangular, 
simple or branched, glabrous or slightly glandular-pulverulent. Leaves 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 14-24 in. long, }-? in. broad, subacute 
or obtusely acuminate, narrowed at the base, often semiamplexicaul, 
serrulate above the middle, glabrous, densely glandular-punctate. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, usually distant on the stem, often crowded at 
the ends of very short branches; peduncles 1-3 lin. long; bracts linear 
to lanceolate, 14-13 lin. long. Posticous calyx-segment broadly ovate, 
3}-44 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, glabrous, obtuse, strongly nerved, some- 
times minutely few-toothed ; anticous segments somewhat narrower ; 
lateral lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely ciliate on the 
margins and keel. Corolla 4-5 lin. long, slightly 2-lipped. Capsule 
ovoid, 24-3 lin. long, glandular-pulverulent.— Herpestis decumbens, 
Fernald in Proc. Amer. Acad. xxxiii. 91. 
_Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 595! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 30! 
Sierra Leone: about Mahela, Scott-Elliot, 3847 ! 
Also in Mexico. 
I can find no valid character by which to separate the African from the 
Mexican plant. Scott-Elliot’s specimen is labelled “ very common in ricefields.”’ 
It has probably been introduced into Africa. 
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