Buchnera.] _XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 381 
annual, with a simple erect stem 2-3 ft. high, everywhere white-pilose, 
many-leaved. Basal leaves 2, broadly elliptic, 14-1} in. long, 3-1 in. 
broad, 5-6-nerved, obtuse, sparingly and hispidly pubescent; cauline 
leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, 14-2 in. long, obtuse, hispidly 
pubescent, the lower opposite and 3-nerved, the upper alternate, smaller, 
and less distinctly nerved. Spike (young) ? in. long, densely covered 
with long silky hairs; bracts lanceolate, the lower 6-7} lin. Jong, the 
upper shorter. Calyx cylindric, silky-pilose ; tube 24 lin. long; teeth 
1 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate. Corolla deep violet; tube slender, 5 
lin. long, very slightly curved, pilose on the upper part outside and at 
the throat inside ; lobes obovate, the lower 3} lin. long, 24 lin. broad, 
somewhat larger than the upper. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, in a marshy forest, Buchner, 9! Goss- 
weiler, 1088 ! 
10. B. capitata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 495. An erect annual 
herb 1-2} ft. high; stem simple or sparingly branched, slightly furrowed, 
$-2} lin. thick at the base, glabrous or minutely pubescent ; internodes 
i-3in. long. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, sessile, oblong- 
lanceolate to linear, 3-3 in. long, 2~8 lin. broad, acute or obtuse, scabrid, 
entire or obscurely few-toothed. Flowers in terminal crowded ovoid, 
ellipsoid or cylindric spikes 4~16 lin. long; bracts narrowly obovate, 
oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate (sometimes abruptly), 13-8 
lin. long, concave, rather densely pilose ; bracteoles linear or filiform, 
1}-3 lin. long. Calyx 14-2 lin. long, more or less pilose, 10-nerved 
(sometimes obscurely), 5-toothed; teeth subulate, 3-1} lin. long. Corolla 
white ; tube 14-24 lin. long, }-} lin. broad, curved, more or less pilose 
outside and inside; limb about 1—1} lin. across; lobes obovate, about 
3 lin. long and broad. Anthers acute or subacute. Style } lin. long. 
Capsule subovoid, 14-1} lin, long, obtuse—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359 ; 
Engl. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 314; De Wild. & 
Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fase. 2, 45. 
Wile Land. Niamniam: Merdyans Seriba, Schweinfurth, 3852! Uganda: 
Kalungu Marshes, Scott-Elliot, 7424 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaur, 439! Lower 
Congo: Stanley Pool, 950 ft., Hens, B, 351! near Dolo, Schlechter, 12457 ! Bingila, 
Dupuis, 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Karagwe; Bukoba, 3700 ft., Stuhl- 
mann, 1562! 3742! 
Also in Madagascar, 
ll. B. paucidentata, Hngl. MSS. An erect branched herb 
1-2 ft. high ; stems 2 or 3, }-1 lin. in diam., covered with very slender 
spreading hairs; internodes 1}-2 in. long. Basal leaves broadly oblong, 
up to 1 in. long and 1 in. broad, few-toothed, obtuse, hairy on both 
sides, scabrid on the upper side; hairs on the upper side very short and 
thickened at the base; cauline leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 
apiculate or acuminate, 13-3 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, 3-nerved, few- 
toothed above the middle or the upper quite entire, hairy like the basal 
