Craterostigma.| XCI1, SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN), 329 
Acaulescent. 
Scape very short or wanting 2. - - ~ - 2. C. pumilum. 
Seape rather shorter to somewhat longer than the 
leaves ; inflorescence not capitate. 
Leaves not more than 3 times as long as broad. 
Inflorescence a corymbose raceme. * . IL. C. plantagineum, 
Inflorescence a spike-like raceme. 
Nerves of the leaves persistent . : . 38. C. hirsutum, 
Nerves of the leaves not persistent. 
Flowers subsessile ; calyx 24 lin. long - & CO. Smithii. 
Pedicels 1} lin. long; calyx 33-4 lin. long 5. C. nanum, 
Leaves more than 4 times as long as broad. 
Leaves lanceolate. : 3 - 6. C. lanceolatum. 
Leaves linear . : ‘ : : C . 7. C. linearifolium, 
Scape 3 or 4 times as long as the leaves; inflorescence 
capitate . e - : & . 10. C. Welwitschit. 
Caulescent. 
Flowers crowded in capitate or subcapitate inflor- 
escences, 
Bracts broad, longer than the calyx. ein 
Plant 4-6 in. high ; branches rather densely leafy 11. C. crassifolium. 
Plant 18 in. high or more; branches very 
sparingly leafy. : ‘ . . . 12. C, latibracteatum. 
Bracts narrow, shorter than the calyx . 9, C. Schweinfurthit. 
Flowers more or fess distant in a spike-like raceme . 8. C. Getzei. 
1. C. plantagineum, ochst. in Flora, 1841, 669. A densely 
pilose acaulescent perennial herb with a short thick rhizome densely 
covered with stout roots. Leaves rosulate, ovate, ovate-subcordate or 
rarely lanceolate, 3-3 in. long, 5 lin. to 23 in. broad, broadly obtuse to 
Subacute, narrowed at the base into a short broad petiole, 5—9-nerved, 
ciliate, usually densely pilose beneath, glabrous or sometimes sparingly 
pilose above. Scape }-1} in. long, quadrangular. Inflorescence a 
raceme, sometimes with the pedicels very short or sometimes with the 
lower pedicels up to 1} in. long, forming a corymb; bracts opposite, 
lanceolate, 3-6 lin. long. Calyx 2#-3} lin. long, more or less pubescent 
outside ; teeth 4-1 lin. long, acute. Corolla yellow and ere or yellow, 
‘white and purple, or blue, 5-7 lin. long; upper lip 2}-2} lin. long ; 
lower lip 33 lin. long, 44-5 lin. broad. Capsule ovoid-oblong, glabrous, 
slightly shorter than the calyx.— Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 30 as Rolfe in 
Oates, Matabeleland, ed. 2, 405; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 357 ; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 761, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 361; 8. Moore 
in Journ. Bot. 1900, 467, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 190; Almagia 
in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 140. Torenia plantaginea, Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. x. 411, excl. syn. Dunalia acaulis, R. Br.; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 
Abyss. ii. 121; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 120; Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 101; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 10; Martelli, Fl. 
nade 63. TT. pumila, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 641, not of 
nth. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: various localities ; Terraccianod, Pappi, & igen s 
Hildebrandt, 642, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1380! Beccari, 144! Steudner, 779 
