Veronica,| XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 361 
branches decumbent. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, shortly 
petiolate, ovate or ovate-orbicular, 3-5 lin. long, 3-44 lin. broad, trun- 
cate, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, serrate or serrate-crenate 
chiefly from the middle to the apex, prominently 5-nerved on the under- 
side; petiole 4-1} lin. long. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles 
very slender, 2-5} lin. long. Calyx scarcely more than 1 lin. long in 
flower, up to 24 lin. long in fruit, divided in the median plane into 2 
deeply bifid ciliate segments which are slightly cordate at the base ; 
lobes acute, entire or 1- or 2-toothed. Corolla about 2 lin. long ; upper 
and lateral segments elliptic, broader than the lower segment. Style 
scarcely } lin. long Capsule suborbicular, very much compressed, 
emarginate, ciliate, 1} lin. long, 2 lin. broad. Seeds cochleate, rugose, 
about # lin. in diam.—Flora, 1851, 659. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Saganeiti, 7200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 806! 
Abyssinia: Samen, Rippell ; and without precise locality, Schimper, 335! 
V. filiformis, A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 127, from Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, 
in Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon, we have not seen, but we suspect that it is the same as 
the above species, though tbe peduncles are said to be much longer. The description 
will not do for V. Jfiliformis, Smith, a species from the Caucasus and Asia Minor, 
with which Richard identified it. 
Imperfectly known species. 
10. V. Gunee, Schweinf. in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 380. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: on Mount Guna,at the source of the Reb River, 
10800 ft., Steudner, 811. 
Allied to V. glandulosa and V. Mannii. The branches are decumbent, with 
small shortly stalked roundish-obovate leaves. 
37. MELASMA, Berg.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 966. 
Calyx campanulate, 10-ribbed, 5-lobed, enlarged, inflated and dry in 
fruit, angular; lobes erect, equal, valvate. Corolla tubular-cam- 
panulate, much longer than the calyx, not marcescent, 5-lobed ; lobes 
imbricate. Stamens 4, didynamous or nearly equal, included ; anther- 
cells parallel, distinct, apiculate or acuminate. Disk annular, fleshy. 
Ovary glabrous. Style clavate or flattened, persistent, exserted from 
the calyx. Capsule included in the calyx, loculicidal. Seeds very 
numerous, linear-cuneate or clavate, straight or curved, truncate at the 
unequal ends, 1-14 lin. long; outer testa transparent, very coarse- 
celled, about three times as long as the nearly central nucleus.—Coarse, 
hispid or hairy, erect, apparently not parasitic herbs, 2 or 3 ft. high. 
eaves opposite, or alternate in the inflorescence, sessile or nearly so, 
entire or toothed, usually larger than in the leafy species of Alectra. 
Inflorescence usually loose. Flowers relatively large, solitary in the 
axils of the leaves or bracts, distinctly pedicellate; pedicels often long ; 
bracteoles 2, variously placed.—Velvitsia, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. i. 771. 
