334 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN)._ [Craterostigma. 
whitish very slender hairs; teeth about 3 lin. long, very broad, abruptly 
acute, fimbriate. Corolla puberulous outside, 7-8 lin. long; tube 
about 4} lin. long, } lin. broad; upper lip 3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, 
oblong ; lower lip about 4 lin. long, 3-lobed. Appendages of the anti- 
cous stamens } lin. long, capitate at the apex; anthers glabrous, cohering 
in pairs. Capsules ovoid, 2} lin. long, 13 lin. broad at the base, acute. 
—Lindernia latibracteata, Eng). in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 
313, without description. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: in marshy places around Dolo, near Stanley 
Pool, Schlechter, 12440 ! 
27, TORENIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 954. 
Calyx tubular, plicate or 3-5-winged, oblique at the apex, 3-3- 
toothed or 2-lipped. Corolla-tube cylindric or usually enlarged above; 
upper outside lip erect, broad, concave, emarginate or 2-fid ; lower lip 
larger, spreading, 3-lobed ; lobes broad, subequal. Perfect stamens 4; 
posticous pair included ; filaments filiform ; anticous pair affixed to the 
throat of the corolla; filaments elongated, arched, connivent under the 
upper lip, each furnished at the base with a filiform or tooth-like appen- 
dage ; anthers closely approximate or coherent in pairs; cells usually 
confluent at the apex. Style subbilamellate at the apex. Capsule 
oblong, not longer than the calyx, septicidal; valves thin, entire. 
Seeds many, foveolate-rugose.—Glabrous, pubescent or hirsute herbs. 
Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Racemes short, few-flowered, 
fascicle-like or more rarely elongated, terminal or pseudo-axillary ; 
pedicels ebracteolate. 
Species about 25, mostly in Tropical Asia, Madagascar, and 1 in Tropical 
America. 
Leaves sessile, 
Pedicels scarcely $ lin. long ‘ : . 1. 7. spicata. 
Pedicels 3-6 lin, long. : : : : . 2. ZT. angolensis. 
Leaves petiolate 
Petiole 1-2 lin. long ; corolla 34-43 lin. long . . 8. TZ. parviflora. 
Petiole 4-7 lin. long; corolla about 8 lin. long. . 4 DT. Mannii. 
1. 'T. spicata, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 502, t. 7, figs. G—M. 
A slender erect glabrous annual herb, 2-4 in. high; stem quadrangular, 
narrowly 4-winged, simple or branched. ‘Leaves sessile, those of the 
lower pairs equal or subequal, those of the upper often very unequal, 
lanceolate, up to 9 lin. long, }—-2? lin. broad, obtuse or acute, minutely 
and remotely serrulate or entire. Lower flowers axillary, the upper in 
a spike-like raceme ; bracts opposite very small, broad at the base with 
subulate tips or one of each pair leaf-like ; pedicels scarcely } Jin. long. 
Calyx 2 lin. long, deeply 2-lipped, 5-winged; upper lip 3-toothed ; 
lower lip 2-toothed; teeth very small, acute. Corolla rose-coloured, 
blue or whitish, 2 lin. long; lobes broad, rounded. Anticous stamens 
with a short yellow obtuse appendage at the base of each filament. 
