Moniera.| XII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 323 
1} lin, long; upper lip entire ; lower 3-lobed. Capsule ellipsoid, 1 lin. 
long, glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, margins of small lakes, Barter, 
1689 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in marshes and streams from 
Caghuy towards Condo, Miége stream near Lake Quibinda, and near Sansamanda, 
Welwitsch, 5891 ! 
7. M. hamiltoniana, 7’. Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay, ii. 286. An 
erect herb 6-12 in. high, glandular-punctate, glabrous or slightly 
pulverulent ; stem simple or branched, quadrangular. Leaves sessile 
and semi-amplexicaul or narrowed at the base into a short petiole, 
lanceolate, 7-1} in. long, 14-34 lin. broad, entire or remotely and 
obscurely denticulate, narrowed at the apex but scarcely acute. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile; bracts small, setaceous, Calyx 
glandular-punctate, minutely pubescent ; posticous segment broadly 
ovate, 1? lin. long, 14 lin. broad, acute or subacute; anticous segments 
much smaller; lateral linear-lanceolate, 14 lin. long, acuminate. 
Corolla 1} lin. long ; upper lip truncate, emarginate ; lower lip equally 
3-lobed, Capsule broadly ovoid, 14-14 lin. long, glabrous.— Herpestis 
hamiltoniana, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30, and in DC. Prodr. x. 400 ; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 272. Bacopa hamiltoniana, Wettst. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 77. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur, 237! 
Also in India. 
8. M. punctata, Skan. An erect slender slightly pulverulent 
glandular-punctate herb 4-12 in. high; stem simple or sparingly 
branched, quadrangular. Leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
usually about 1 in. long and 1} lin. broad, narrowed at the apex but 
Scarcely acute, often semi-amplexicaul, entire, somewhat, scaberulous. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile ; bracts linear, 2 lin. long, scarcely 
acute, Calyx glandular-pulverulent ; posticous segment ovate-lanceo- 
late, 2} lin. long, 3 lin. broad; anticous segments oblong-lanceolate, 
2 lin. long, minutely ciliate; lateral minutely ciliate, lanceolate, 1} lin. 
long. Corolla 2 lin. long: upper lip emarginate ; lower lip 3-lobed. 
Capsule ovoid-globose, 1-1} lin. long, bisulcate, glabrous.— Bacopa 
punctata, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 499. 
Rodaee Land. Jur: Agada, Schweinfurth, 2465! Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 
Imperfectly known species. 
9. Bacopa alternifolia, Engl. in Schlechter, Westafrik. Kautsch.- 
Exped. 313. Flowers bright blue. 
_ Gower Guinea. Lower Congo : islands of Stanley Pool, Schlechter, 12571. 
French Congo: near Bonga, Schlechter, 12651. 
