344 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ Lindernia, 
puberulous, minutely ciliolate. Flowers few, terminal and in axils of 
the upper leaves; peduncles very short. Calyx campanulate-oblong, 
2 lin. long, shortly 5-cleft ; teeth ovate at the base, acuminate, ciliolate, 
about half as long as the smooth tube, Corolla about 3 lin. long, 
bilabiate, blue. Stamens 4, all perfect. Style 14 lin. long, rather 
thickened upwards; stigma rather dilated. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in wet pastures on the Humpata plateau, 
rather rare, Welwitsch, 5784! 
The above is taken from Mr. Hiern’s description. 
15. La. Stuhlmannii, Lngl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 357. An erect herb 
about 5 in. high, branched from the base; branches erect, glabrous, 
longitudinally suleate. Leaves few, the basal linear, the cauline short, 
lanceolate. Flowers in short terminal racemes; pedicels 2-3 times 
longer than the very short bracts, nearly as long as the flower, deflexed 
at the time of flowering. Calyx-teeth triangular, half as long as the 
tnbe. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; upper lip shortly bilobed, 
equal in size to the lobes of the lower lip. Anticous filaments genicu- 
late. Capsule elongate-fusiform, nearly twice as long as the calyx.— 
Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 503, t. 9, figs. F—L. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: in marshes, East Uzinja, Stuhlmann, 
3550. 
The figure represents this plant with leaves scarcely 2 lin. long and pedicels 
1 lin. long or less, and with the upper lip of the corolla quite entire. 
16. L. debilis, Skan. A weak much branched prostrate annual 
herb; branches up to 24 in. long, glabrous, quadrangular. Leaves 
sessile, very thin, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2—5 lin. long, iy lin. 
broad, obtuse or acute, slightly narrowed at the base, entire or minutely 
few-toothed, glabrous ; floral leaves more or less unequal in the same 
pair. Flowers solitary in the axils of the smaller leaves of the upper 
pairs; peduncles about } lin. long. Calyx 14 lin. long, very sparingly 
glandular-pubescent, prominently 5-ribbed ; teeth subulate, minutely 
ciliate, unequal, 1-1} lin. long. Corolla 14-13 lin. long; upper lip 
purplish, emarginate; lower lip yellow with purple lines, deeply 
3-lobed. Anticous filaments with very small appendages near the base. 
Capsule oblong, acute, slightly shorter than the calyx. 
Nile Land. Bongo; Gir, Schweinfurth, 2516! 
Imperfectly known species. 
17. L. Dinteri, Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. xx. 27. Habit of 
L. abyssinica. Leaves opposite, sessile, decurrent, lanceolate, about 6 
lin. long and 1} lin. broad, acute, almost fleshy, with 3 or 4 distant 
serrate teeth each side. Flowers axillary, solitary, shortly stalked. 
Calyx 5-toothed, broadly 5-winged ; teeth linear-lanceolate, about 1 lin. 
long. Corolla unknown. Capsule about 2 lin. long, septicidal. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Waterberg 
Plateau, Dinter, 563. 
I suspect from the description that this is a Torenia and probably T. spicata. 
