338 XCIL. SCROPHULARIACEX® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). l Lindernia. 
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Flowers 3-5, crowded at the apex of 
the stem; bracts linear-lanceo- 
late ; corolla with a blue upper 
lip and a white and yellow lower 
lips. : : : ° . 10. ZL. rupestris. 
Flowers often many, in a loose spike- 
like raceme ; bracts ovate ; corolla 
yellow : . . 11. Z. insularis. 
Stems very sparingly leafy; cauline 
leaves elliptic-ovate, only 14-3 lin. 
Jong: i. : > “ : . 12. L. bifolia. 
Perennial; corolla 44 lin. long. . - 18. L. abyssinica. 
+} Leaves narrow. 
Plant erect, unbranched or sparingly branched. 
Pedicels about as long as the bracts . . 14. L. wens. 
Pedicels 2 or 3 times as long as the bracts 15. L. Stuhlmannit. 
Plant prostrate, much branched. F . 16. L. debilis. 
1. L. diffusa, Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Phanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 80. 
A pubescent diffusely branched procumbent annual herb, the branches 
sometimes rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves very shortly petiolate or 
sessile, ovate-suborbicular, usually 6-7 lin. long, obtuse, rounded or 
somewhat cuneate at the base, crenate-serrate. Flowers solitary in the 
axils of all the upper leaves; peduncles scarcely 1 lin. long. Calyx 
3-31 lin. long, sparingly and minutely pubescent ; teeth subulate, 2}-1z 
lin. long, unequal, the posticous longest. Corolla white or flesh-coloured, 
31 lin. long; tube hairy inside from the base of the lower lip to half- 
way down. Anticous filaments with obovate or oblong very obtuse 
appendages. Capsule narrowly oblong, 4~—7 lin. long, beaked.—Hiern 
in Cat, Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 763; Engl. in Schlechter, Westatrik. Kautsch.- 
Exped, 313. Vandellia diffusa, Linn. Mant.i. 89; Benth in DC. Prodr. 
x. 416; Durand & Schinz, Etudes F]. Congo, i. 210; De Wild. & Durand, 
Contrib. Fl. Congo, i, fase. 2. 45, and Relig. Dewevr. 170. Pyxidarta 
diffusa, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 464. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4013! Sugarloaf 
Mountain, Welwitsch, 5924! and without precise locality, Morson ! Liberia: Kaka 
Town, Whyte! Gold Coast: Begoro,-Johnson, 696! Lagos: between Ibadan and 
Abeokuta, Schlechter, 12341! Southern Nigeria : Onitsa, Barter, 1766! Cameroons: 
Bipinde, Zenker, 1081! Batanga, Bates, 2! and without precise locality, Preuss, 
1184! Fernando Po, Mann, 1441! . : 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauz, 338! 
South Central. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, 322! Kinchassa, Luja, 
and near Leopoldville, Dewevre, 525 ! 
Also in Madag:scar and Trop‘cal America. 
Var. pedunculata, Skan. Peduncles 2-5 lin. long.—Vandellia diffusa, var- 
B pedunculata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 416. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel, 111! Barter! 
