Lindernia.]  XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 343 
Wile Land. Uganda: Lake Victoria ; Sesse Island, 3909 ft., Brown, 117, 
12. L. bifolia, Skan. A slender erect annual herb 2-4} in. high, 
branched from the base and sometimes sparingly branched above, covered 
(in some places rather densely) with short spreading grey hispid hairs ; 
root slender, with very few fibres; stems quadrangular. J.eaves in a 
basal pair, and 1 or 2 pairs of very small ones on the stem when this 
is branched ; basal leaves elliptic-ovate, sessile, 5-7 lin. long, 3-5 lin. 
broad, thin, acute, obscurely few-toothed, nearly glabrous below; cauline 
leaves similar to the basal, but only 14-3 lin. long. Inflorescence a 
few-flowered terminal raceme; flowers usually alternate ; bracts oppo- 
site, subulate, 1-3? lin. long; pedicels $-1} lin. long. Calyx 13-2 lin. 
long, prominently 5-ribbed, sparingly and hispidly hairy, purple in 
fruit ; teeth 11-14 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 4 lin, 
long ; upper lip oblong-ovate, 1? lin. long, obtuse, emarginate ; lower 
lip 2? lin. long, 3 lin. broad, with a crest of clavate golden-yellow hairs 
at the base; lateral lobes elliptic, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad; median 
lobe suborbicular, 1} lin. in diam. Anticous filaments with a slender 
capitate pubescent appendage near the base. Capsule ellipsoid-globose, 
shorter than the calyx, apiculate. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Kambole, south-west of Lake Tan- 
ganyika, about 5000 ft., Nutt / 
13. L. abyssinica, Hngl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 503, t. 9, figs. A—F. 
An erect perennial herb about 2 in. high, branched from the base, 
bearing numerous fibrous roots; stem quadrangular, glabrous, leafless 
at the base but marked with rather crowded leaf-scars; branches 
sparingly and minutely pubescent. Leaves crowded on the stem, in 
rather distant pairs on the branches, sessile, elliptic, 3-6 lin. long, 
2-34 lin. broad, obtuse, somewhat narrowed at the base, remotely 
serrulate, glabrous above, sparingly and shortly pubescent below, 
ciliate, Flowers axillary, solitary, usually alternate: peduncles 3-6 
lin. long. Calyx 23 lin. long with a few short hispid hairs on the 
upper part, often coloured purple; teeth triangular, 3-4 lin. Jong, sub- 
acute. Corolla apparently yellow, 44 Jin. long ; tube hairy inside from 
the base of the lower lip to half-way down; upper lip ovate, 2 lin. long, 
denticulate ; lobes of the lower lip denticulate. Anticous filaments 
dilated and sharply bent at the base. Capsule about 38} lin. long, 
oblong, acute. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; on rocks near Gafat, 8850 ft., Schimper, 
1164! 
14. L. uvens, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 763, An annual 
herb 2-4 in, high, nearly glabrous; stem erect, tetragonal, minutely 
scabrid-puberulous, slender, leafy below, sparingly leafy above. Leaves 
opposite or the uppermost floral ones alternate, sessile, ovate, oblong or 
lanceolate, 1-4 lin. long, obtuse or the floral subacute, more or less 
broad at the base, minutely glandular-punctate and _pulverulent- 
