Craterostigma.| _XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 331 
subequal, 1} lin. long, crisply undulate. Anthers approximate in 
pairs. Ovary ovoid-oblong, acute. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Kapte Plains, Gregory / 
4. ©. Smithii, §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 461. An acaulescent 
herb with fibrous roots. Leaves ovate or oblanceolate-oblong, up to 
7} lin. long and 63 lin. broad, very obtuse, narrowed at the base into a 
petiole up to 5 lin. Jong, rarely subsessile, firmly membranous, glabrous 
above, adpressed-pubescent beneath. Scape slender, simple, 14-1} in. 
long, white-pilose, 3- or 4-flowered ; flowers nearly quite sessile ; bracts 
3 lin. long, scarcely as broad, ciliate, closely applied to the flowers. 
Calyx 2} lin. long, subturbinate, rather pilose; lobes deltoid, ? lin. 
long, $ lin. broad at the base, white-ciliate. Corolla blue; tube in- 
fundibuliform, 4 lin. long; upper lip oblong-ovate, 24 lin. long, 2 lin. 
broad, somewhat emarginate ; lobes of the lower lip 17-2 lin. broad. 
Anthers approximate in pairs. Ovary ovoid, compressed. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Jara, Donaldson-Smith ! 
o. C. nanum, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. xv. 63, t. 1479 (var. elatior). A 
small more or less pilose acaulescent herb, Leaves ovate, 3-1} in. long, 
33~5 lin. broad, entire, obtuse, narrowed at the base into a short broad 
petiole, pilose on both sides or subglabrous on the upper side. Inflores- 
cence a spike-like raceme, #—-1} in. long, on a scape somewhat longer 
than the leaves; bracts ovate, 4—6 lin. long, concave on the inside, 
obtuse or subacute, sometimes purple-tipped; pedicels about 14 lin. 
leng. Calyx 33-4 lin. long, sparingly or rather densely hispidly hairy 
outside, sometimes with a few hispid hairs on the teeth inside ; teeth 1 
lin. long, broad, obtuse or subacute, sometimes purple-tipped. Corolla 
glabrous, white and purplish (Cecil); tube 33-4} lin. long; upper lip 
24-23 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, denticulate ; lower lip 24-3} lin. long, 
4-6 lin. broad ; lobes denticulate.—Hiern in Dyer, F). Cap. iv. ii. 360. 
Torenia nana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 412. Uvedalia ? nana, E. Meyer 
ex Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente. 151, 228. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; Manika, Inyanga 
Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Cecil, 208 ! 
Also in South Africa. 
6. C. lanceolatum, Skan. A rather densely pilose acaulescent 
herb 23-41 in, high. Leaves lanceolate, 14-24 in. long, 33-6 lin. 
broad, narrowed at the apex and base, obtuse, quite entire, 3-5- 
nerved ; cauline leaves few, opposite, shorter than the radical leaves. 
Flowers racemose at the ends of the stem and short lateral branches ; 
bracts ovate, somewhat narrowed at the apex or obtusely acuminate, 
up to 1 in. long and 4 in. broad; pedicels 1-1} lin. long. Calyx 3}-4 
lin. long, rather hispidly hairy ; teeth 1-1} lin. long, oblong or broad at 
the base and subsetaceous above. Corolla glabrous; tube 3-34 lin. 
long ; upper lip suborbicular, 2 lin. long, denticulate; lower lip 2{ lin. 
long, 3} lin. broad, denticulate.—C. nanwm, var. lanceolatum, Engl. 
PA. Ost-Afr. ©. 357. 
