Limosella.| XCi1, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN.) 353 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po: top of Clarence Peak, 9000-10000 ft., Mann, 
597! 
Cosmopolitan. 
2. L. maior, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 122. A tufted minutely 
glandular marsh herb much larger than L. aquatica. Leaves radical, 
crowded, oblong, spathulate-oblong or spathulate, subacute or obtuse, 
narrowed at the base, erect ; blade usually 3-13 in. long and 4-2 in. 
broad, broadest about the middle ; petiole stout, 4-4 in. long. Peduncles 
7-2} in. long, erect in flower, deflexed in fruit. Calyx 1$-2 lin. long; 
teeth deltoid-ovate, $ lin. long. Corolla lilac- or bluish-white; tube 
about 2 lin. long; lobes scarcely exserted, ovate-rounded. Capsule 
about 24 lin. long and 1 lin. broad—Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 
357. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Saganeiti; valley of Degerra, 7200 ft., Schweinfurth & 
Riva, 1260! 
Also in South Africa. 
L. aquatica, var. alismoides, Welw, ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 766, 
oo by Welwitsch in Angola, is, according to Hiern, probably referable to 
+ maror. 
3. L. capensis, Zhunb. Prodr. 104. Very closely resembles 
L. aquatica in habit and foliage. Leaves ovate, elliptic-oblong or sub- 
linear ; blade 1-8 lin. long, }~3 lin. broad; petioles very slender, up to 
2 in. long or sometimes more. Peduncles 1-flowered, up to 1{ (rarely 
to 2) in. long. Calyx 3-1 lin. long, enlarged slightly in fruit ; teeth 
broadly ovate. Corolla-tube about as long as or slightly longer than 
the calyx; lobes as long as or nearly as long as the tube, pilose and 
white on the upper side, purplish or pale blue with a white border on 
the underside. Capsule globose, 3-1 lin. long.—Thunb. FI. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 480; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 427; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 
iv. ii, 358. L. cwrulea, Burch. Trav. S. Afr. i. 259, in note. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand ; Gobabis, 
Schinz ! and without precise locality, Chapman & Baines, 
Also in South Africa. 
33. SIBTHORPIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 959. 
Calyx campanulate, 4—8- (usually 5-) fid; lobes somewhat unequal. 
Corolla subrotate ; lobes as many as those of the calyx or one more, 
subequal, imbricate, spreading. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes 
or one less ; filaments short, filiform, subequal ; anthers sagittate, with 
the cells contiguous and not confluent at the apex. Style short ; stigma 
capitate. Capsule membranous, compressed, loculicidal. Seeds not 
numerous, convex on the back, flat or concave on the face, minutely 
tuberculate-rugose.—Prostrate creeping usually hairy herbs, often 
rooting at the nodes. Leaves alternate or fasciculate, petiolate, 
orbicular-reniform, coarsely crenate or incised-pinnatifid. Peduncles 
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