340 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). | Lindernia. 
1-1} lin. long, unequal, the posticous longest. Corolla 4 lin. long, 
white, tinted with red on the upper lip; tube hairy inside from the 
base of the lower lip to half-way down. Anticous filaments with oblong 
curved obtuse appendages. Capsule linear, 8-10 lin. long, acuminate. 
—Vandellia senegalensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 416, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Nun River, Vogel! wet sands by the 
Brass River, Barter, 27 ! 
6. L. lobelioides, Hngl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 357. An erect or 
ascending herb }—1 ft. high, glabrous except a few minute hairs on the 
calyx-teeth and margins of the younger leaves ; stem simple or branched 
at the base. Leaves linear, entire, 1 in. long, 14 lin. broad, acute, the 
lower sometimes purplish on the underside, the upper unequal in the 
same pair; floral leaves snorter. Flowers axillary, solitary ; peduncles 
3-1} in. (rarely }-} in.) long, suberect at the time of flowering. 
Calyx 2-3 lin. long, 5-fid; teeth acute, 1-1} lin. long. Corolla 44-5} 
lin. long, blue; upper lip broadly oblong, subtruncate ; lower lip 
3-lobed; lobes rounded. Anticous filaments obtusely tuberculate at 
the base, suddenly curved. Capsule (unripe) linear-oblong, acute or 
acuminate, 5 lin. long.—Vandellia lobelioides, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxix. 120, t. 121 B. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre, Schimper, 1222! Jur: Jur Ewet, Schwein- 
furth, 1769! Bongo: by the Lesi River, Schweinfurth, 4010! and without precise 
locality, Petherick ! Uganda : Madi, Speke & Grant! Elgon district, James! 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Unyamwezi; Msalala, Hannington! 
Lower Plateau, North of Lake Nyasa, Thomson ! Nyasaland : North Nyasaland 
and Upper Loangwa River, near Fort Young, Nicholson! Shibisa to Tshinmuze, 
2000-4000 ft., Kirk! Namasi, Cameron, 4! 
7. L. Newtonii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 503, t. 9, figs. M—N- 
A small herb; stem creeping and rooting in the lower part, then as- 
cending ; internodes 24-3 lin. long. Leaves linear, 3-3} lin. long, 
Z lin. broad, obtuse. Flowers solitary, terminal; peduncles about 73 
lin. long. Calyx elongate-turbinate, 3 lin. long; teeth narrowly 
triangular, 1 lin. long. Corolla 4-5 lin. long; tube funnel-shaped, 
2}-3 lin. long ; upper lip oblong, 14-2 lin. long; lower lip about 3 lin. 
long ; lobes obovate. Stamens exserted ; anticous filaments thickened 
and geniculate at the base. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Humpata; in damp places on the banks of the 
Rio Nive, Newton, 252. se 
8. L. Whytei, Skan. Stems apparently ascending, simple or 
branched, quadrangular, about 1 ft. long, sparingly leafy, glabrous. 
Leaves sessile, in distant pairs, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 
lin. long, 24-3} lin. broad, acute or acuminate, dentate, rather thick, 
glabrous or minutely ciliate and sometimes with a few hairs on the 
nerves beneath. Flowers distant, in a terminal raceme ; bracts passing 
from ovate below to subulate above, the upper shorter than the 
pedicels ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long. Calyx 3-4 lin. long, 5-ribbed, trans- 
