382 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN).  [Buchmera. 
leaves, but lessscabrid. Spikes densely-flowered, terminal on the stems 
and elongated branches, and!on very short branches which arise in the 
axils of nearly all the cauline leaves, at first subglobose, 3—4 lin. in diam., 
growing out in the fruiting stage to 1} in. long, with some of the lower 
fruits separated from the rest ; bracts lanceolate or subulate, 14-3 lin, 
long, hispid ; bracteoles minute or often wanting. Calyx 2 lin. long, 
10-nerved, 5-toothed, hispid ; teeth linear-triangular or subulate, $ lin. 
long. Corolla-tube 2 lin. long, slightly curved and somewhat contracted 
towards the apex, white-pilose above; lobes obovate, about 4 lin. long 
and } lin. broad. Anthers narrowly oblong, nearly 4 lin. long, acumi- 
nate. Style % lin. long, clavate. Capsule ovoid, 1? lin. long, 14 lin. 
broad. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons, 4400 ft., Conrau, 12! 
12. B. affinis, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 123. Plant more 
than 1 ft. high, branched; branches 4—34 in. ,long, glabrescent on the 
internodes, hairy on the nodes, with stiff white hairs thickened at the 
base. Lower leaves elliptic-oblong, about 3} in. long and 1 in. broad, 
entire or irregularly toothed, sessile, 3-nerved, scabrid on both sides; 
upper leaves narrower, always clearly 3-nerved, obtuse, cuneate at the 
base, more or less amplexicaul. Inflorescence spicate, terminal or 
lateral, long- or very shortly pedunculate, 6-11 lin. long, about 7 lin. 
thick; lowermost bracts like the leaves but reduced, as long as or a little 
longer than the spike; upper bracts oval, acute, about 23 lin. long and 
1} lin. broad, scabrid, with 3 keeled nerves; bracteoles linear, 2} lin. 
long. Calyx 8 lin. long in flower increasing to 34 lin. long in fruit, 
4-toothed ; teeth linear, }-3 lin. long and } lin. broad in flower up to 
2 lin. long in fruit. Corolla-tube glabrous, about 3} lin. long; lobes 
obovate, 1} lin. long, 3~1 lin. broad. Fruit ovoid, 24-3 lin. long, #-1 
lin. thick, beaked. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga; plateau near Lukafu, Ver- 
dick, 42. 
13. B. quangensis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii.71, t. 3, fig. L- 
Stem about 14 ft. high, thick, branched, densely adpressed pilose, leafy ; 
branches 8-10 in. long; internodes 1-1} in. long. Leaves lanceolate 
or oblanceolate, about 1} in. long, up to 23 lin. broad, rather: thick, 
entire, obtuse or sometimes acute, shortly and densely hispidly hairy on 
both sides. Spikes shortly cylindric, 10 lin. long, 7 lin. broad, very 
densely flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 lin. long, acute, adpressed- 
pilose on the outside ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, about as long as the 
bracts. Calyx obconical-tubular, 4 lin. long, } lin. broad at the base, 
nearly 14 lin. broad at the apex, rather densely pilose, 5-toothed ; teeth 
narrowly ovate to triangular, #-1 lin. long, acute, the upper most 
smallest. _Corolla-tube 44-5 lin. long, densely pilose above; lobes 
obovate, 1} lin. long and broad, the lower somewhat larger than the 
upper. Style 1} lin. long, thickened above. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Chamasango, on the River Kuango; Teusez, 
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