342 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). — [Lindernia. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; Tacazze Valley, near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 
1728 ! 
Iozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5600 ft. 
“olkens, 2328! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, 
2000-6000 ft., Whyte! 
Also in Northern India. 
In Whyte’s specimen the capsules are sessile or on peduncles up to 3 in. long. 
10. L. rupestris, Zngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 402. An annual 
herb with fibrous roots; stem 24-4 in. long, simple or sparingly 
branched, slenderly white-pilose chiefly on the angles ; internodes 5-7} 
lin. long. Leaves sessile, ovate, white-pilose on the nerves beneath, 3- 
or 4-toothed on each side, 3-5-nerved, middle ones about 5-6 lin. 
long, 34-4 lin. broad, the lower and upper somewhat smaller. Flowers 
3-5, crowded at the apex of the stem; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2} lin. 
long ; bracteoles narrowly linear, acute. Calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate, 
2} lin. long, } lin. broad, acute, white-pilose on the margins. Corolla- 
tube funnel-shaped, 14 lin. long; upper lip broadly obcordate, blue, 
1} lin. long; lower lip white with yellow spots, 2 lin. long; lateral 
lobes somewhat smaller than the anticous. Anticous filaments curved 
and gibbous at the base. 
Mozamh. Dist. German East Africa: Eastern Livingstone Mountains; 
Ubena, in the Tsansingewe district, 6900 ft., Goetze, 811. 
11. L. insularis, Skan. An annual herb 2-5 in. high; stem 
erect or erect-spreading, usually more or less crooked, simple or usually 
few-branched, sharply quadrangular, slightly twisted, minutely glan- 
dular-pubescent, leafy ; branches opposite or alternate, 13—3} in. long, 
erect-spreading, often crooked; internodes 4-15 lin. long. Leaves 
opposite, sessile, broadly ovate or the lowermost pair shortly oblong, 
very thin, somewhat acute, obtuse or rounded, rounded at the base, 
minutely and very sparingly glandular-pubescent, toothed ; lowermost 
leaves 9-12 lin. long, 6-8 lin. broad; upper 4-6 lin. long, 3-6 lin. 
broad, becoming gradually smaller from below upwards ; teeth usually 
4 or 5 each side, very small. Flowers few or many in loose spike-like 
terminal or Jateral racemes, one to each pair of bracts; bracts broadly 
ovate, 3-1 lin. long and broad, becoming smaller from below upwards, 
unequal in size in each pair, the smaller subtending the flower, coarsely 
few-toothed ; pedicels 4-2 lin. long. Calyx 2-24 lin. long, rather 
densely but minutely glandular-pubescent; teeth narrowly linear- 
lanceolate, 1} lin. long, acuminate. Corolla yellow, 3}-4 lin. long; 
tube 2 lin. long, 3 lin. broad; upper lip oblong-ovate, about 14 lin. 
long, minutely denticulate, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip about 2 lin. long 
and 2} lin. broad, with a small crest of golden-yellow clavate hairs 1D 
the middle ; lobes rounded, about 1 lin. in diam., minutely denticulate. 
Anticous filaments with a golden-yellow knee-like appendage about 
t lin. long at the base. Capsule globose-obovoid, very slightly longer 
than the calyx, obtuse, glabrous. 
