Dopatrium.]  XCI1. SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 327 
Pedicels 10 lin. long. Sepals membranous, 1} lin. long, obtusely 
apiculate, obscurely 3-nerved. Corolla-tube 74 lin. long, 1-1} ra 
broad, glabrous, cylindric, purple. Filaments 1-1} lin. long, inserte 
below the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers oblong. Style about 1} 
lin. long; stigma broadly bilamellate. Capsule 2 lin. long, 14 lin. 
broad, obscurely punctate. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Buyabuya (Bayabaya), on the Scarcies River, 
700 ft., Scott-Elliot, 4275! 
9. D. angolense, Shan. Stems rather stout, 5-6 in. long, once 
branched. Radical leaves 5-7 lin. long, about 1 lin, broad, linear- 
oblong, acute ; cauline leaves seale-like, membranous, 23-38 lin. long, 
ovate, acute, connate at the base. Flowers axillary, solitary ; pedicels 
2-3 in. long, rather stout. Calyx membranous, 34 lin. long, glabrous ; 
teeth 1-1} lin. long, obtuse. Corolla blue with yellow on the base of 
the lower lip; tube 4} lin. long, subinfundibuliform ; limb (imperfect) 
10 lin. broad; lobes rather coarsely dentate. Style 2 lin. long. 
Anthers coherent, ciliate. 
Lower Guinea. Angola : very common in the Rio Palanca, Newton ! 
25, ARTANEMA, Don; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 953. 
Calyx 5-partite ; segments herbaceous, acuminate, broad at the ee 
very much imbricated. Corolla-tube elongated, broad; upper outsi i 
lip erect, broad, emarginate ; lower spreading, 3-fid. Perfect stamens 4, 
didynamous ; posticous pair included ; filaments short, filiform ; te a 
pair affixed below the throat; filaments long, arched, with a broa 
appendage at the base of each, connivent at the apex under the ee 
lip; anthers approximate or coherent in pairs; cells confluent at t 2 
apex. Style bilamellate at the apex. Ovules numerous. | ae ) 
globose, septicidal; valves entire, submembranous. Seeds foveola cee 
Tugose.—Erect herbs scabrid on the angles of the stem and on : e 
upper side of the leaves. Leaves opposite, quite entire or serra e- 
Flowers rather large in terminal bracteate racemose inflorescences ; 
pedicels ebracteolate. 
Species 4, the others in Tropical Asia and Australia. 
1. A. sesamoides, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39. A stout — 
Sparingly branched herb 13-3 ft. high, somewhat scabrid oe the 
angles of the stem and on the leaves; stem quadrangular. eaves 
2-5 in, long, 4-14 in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more 
or less Serrate, acute or acuminate, petiolate or the upper some- 
times subsessile. Raceme 2-5 in. long ; bracts Zep line mag ene 
to lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; pedicels 2—5 lin. long. Calyx te 3 
lin. long, usually minutely and scabridly hairy. Corolla lilac-violet 2 
dark purple, 10-14 lin. long, minutely pubescent. Anthers pare 
in pairs. Capsule globose, about 5 lin. in diam.—DC. Prodr. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 274; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fi. 
