360 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN).  [ Veronica. 
ascending or erect, about 9 in: high, branched ; branches bifariously 
pilose, often very densely leafy above. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, 6-9 lin. long, 14-3} lin. broad, obtuse, somewhat 
narrowed at the base, sparingly glandular-pilose or glabrous, serrulate 
or sometimes nearly entire, rather coriaceous. Flowers in short crowded 
terminal racemes ; pedicels about } lin. long; bracts elliptic-lanceolate 
to oblong, shorter than the flowers. Calyx 4-partite, densely glandular- 
pilose, 3 lin. long; segments oblong, obtuse. Corolla blue, 4—4} lin. 
long; tube 14-12 lin. long ; lobes obovate-ovate or suborbicular. Style 
14 lin. long. Capsule obcordate, compressed especially at the apex, 
shortly glandular-pilose, }—% lin. shorter than the calyx.— Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 380. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 9000-13500 ft., Mann, 
1312! 2080! Johnston, 52! Fernando Po: Clarence Peak, Mann, 604! 
7. V. myrsinoides, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1509. A perennial 
herb; stems creeping, slender, 6-12 in. long, simple in the specimen 
seen, rather densely leafy, bifariously shortly pilose. Leaves very 
shortly petiolate, elliptic or obovate, 3—4 lin. long, 14-1} lin. long, obtuse, 
minutely 2-4-toothed near the apex on each side, glabrous, more or less 
coriaceous; petiole 1 lin. long or less. Flowers solitary in the axils of 
the uppermost leaves; pedicels glandular-pilose, 1} lin. long. Calyx 
about 2 lin. long, 5-partite ; posticous segment minute, the other 4 
oblong or oblong-spathulate, about 1} lin. long, obtuse, glandular, 
pilose. Corolla pale blue, 3-4 lin. long; lobes obovate, the posticous 
broader than the others. Style 1% lin. long. Capsule obcordate, about 
3 lin. shorter than the calyx, sparingly glandular-ciliate.—Trans. Linn. 
Noe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 343; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 380; Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 358. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 11000 ft., Johuston, 
144! Meyer, 143, 
8. V.violefolia, Hochst. ex Benth.in DC. Prodr. x. 488, excl. syn. 
A small slender diffusely branched prostrate pilose annual; branches 
3-3 in. long. Leaves petiolate, ovate to broadly obovate-cuneate, 
13-2 lin. long and broad, fleshy, crenate-serrate, obtuse, the lower 
opposite, the upper alternate; petiole 14-2 lin. long, broadest at the 
top. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles slender, 14-3 lin. long. 
Calyx 2 lin. long, 4-partite; segments spathulate-oblong to obovate, 
obtuse. Corolla about 1 lin. long; segments suborbicular, the lowest 
much smaller than the others. Style scarcely } lin. long. Capsule 
obcordate, compressed, shortly pilose, very slightly shorter than the 
calyx.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 126; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 380; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 141. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Amasen ; Ginda Baresa, 3300 ft., Terracciano § Papp, 
63. Abyssinia: Samen; upper region of Mount Bachit, Schimper, 984! 
9. V. simensis, Fresen. in Bot. Zeit. 1844, 356. A sparingly 
grey-pilose slender annual 24-4 in. high, branched from the base; 
