336 XCII. SCROPHULARIACE& (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). | Torenia. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 278; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. viii. 65; Engl. Pf. Ost- 
Afr. ©. 357; and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 313 (Tor- 
venia); Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 762; De Wild. & Durand, 
Relig. Dewevr. 170. 7. ramosissima, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 
1875, 10. Lindernia senegalensis, Hiern in Cat, Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 763. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 587! 605; 606! Sierra Leone: Samu 
Country, near Tombia, Scott-Elliot, 4215! Niger Territory: from the sea to Nupe, 
Barter, 1199! Lagos: between Ibadan and Abeokuta, Schlechter, 12339! 
Cameroous : Batanga, Bates, 121! near Lobe, Bates, 42! Fernando Po, Mann, 
1442! 
Wile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1463! British East Africa: 
Shimoni, south of Mombasa, Whyte ! 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 338! Lower 
Congo: Boma, Dewevre, Island near Ponta da Lenha, Naumann. Stanley Pool, 
Hens, 89! 301! Angola: Ambaca; between Pamba and Puri-Cacarambola, Wel- 
witsch, 5913! near Ambriz, Welwitsch, 5917! Cazengo; at Dalatanda, Welwitsch, 
5910! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5876! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; near Munza, Schweinfurth, 
3479! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Kirk ! Hildebrandt, 986! German East Africa: 
Zanguebar, Kirk,8! Usambara; Tanga, Volkens,21! Portuguese East Africa: 
Zambesi Delta; Kongone River, Kirk! Chiloane, Scott! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland ; Umbaka River, north of Lake Nyasa, Scott! River Shire; Elephant 
Marsh, Scott ! 
Also in Madagascar, Tropical Asia and America. 
Var, brevipedicellata, De Wild, Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 73. Plant 
regularly dichotomously branched. Leaves rather shortly petiolate, broadly elliptic, 
6 lin, long, 5 lin. broad, almost entire, acute, rounded or subobtuse at the base. 
Pedicels slender, 13-2 lin. long. Calyx 4—4} lin. long in fruit. Corolla unknown. 
South Central. Congo Free State: between Léopoldville aud Mombazi 
(Mbasi), Gillet, 2554. 
4. T. Mannii, Skan. Stems ascending, about 1 ft. long, quadran- 
gular, glabrous except for a few minute hairs on some of the nodes, 
sparingly and shortly branched. Leaves ovate, in distant pairs, usually 
1} in. long, 9-11 lin. broad, glabrous, pellucid-punctate, acute, truncate- 
cuneate at the base, acutely serrate; petiole 4-7 lin. long. Flowers 
solitary in the axil of one of the leaves of the uppermost pair or pairs 
on the stem or on short axillary branches; peduncles 4-1 in. long, 
glabrous. Calyx glabrous, 5} lin. long, 2-lipped, very narrowly 5-winged ; 
teeth acuminate, about } lin. long. Corolla purple (Mann), about 8 lin. 
long; upper lip oblong, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, concave inside ; lobes 
of the lower lip suborbicular, about 14 lin. in diam. Filaments of the 
anticous stamens with a subclavate appendage about 1 lin. long; anthers 
coherent in pairs. Capsule oblong, 44 lin. long, bearing a beak about 
1 lin. long. Seeds globose, tuberculate. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1663! 
