Buchnera.| —_ XCIl, SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 395 
teeth 5, ovate-lanceolate, 14 lin. long, sparingly ciliate, shortly acuminate, 
the uppermost slightly narrower than the others. Corolla white, funnel- 
shaped ; tube 8 lin, long, 1 lin. broad, straight or slightly curved, 
glabrous outside, long-pilose at the throat inside; lobes nearly equal, 
suborbicular, 5 lin. in diam., overlapping at the margin. Anthers 
acuminate. Style 1} lin. long, much thickened in the upper part. 
Capsule ellipsoid or oblong, 4 lin. long, nearly 2 lin. broad at the base, 
slightly narrower above, slightly curved, very shortly apiculate. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, 4000-7000 ft.; near 
Mount Masisi, MeClounie, 128 partly! Masuku Plateau, Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 
Whyte ! 
45. B. longespicata, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 
193. A strigose annual herb 1 ft. high or more, sparingly or often much 
branched from the woody base; branches slender, subterete, somewhat 
rigid, erect-spreading, leafy especially at the base. Leaves opposite, 
subopposite or sometimes alternate, sessile or very shortly petiolate, 
linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 1? in. long, }-2} lin. broad, obtuse or 
somewhat acute, narrowed at the base, entire, densely covered with 
Short hispid hairs, which are often thickened at the base, scabrid. 
Spikes terminal, with the flowers crowded at the apex, becoming very 
lax and growing out up to 8 in. long in the fruiting stage, distinctly 
tapering at the apex some distance beyond the opened flowers ; flowers 
Opposite or subopposite, subdistichous ; lower bracts leaflike, lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, 5-6 lin. long; upper bracts ovate-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, about 14 lin. long and 3 lin. broad, acute or acuminate, 
shortly white-pilose ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx 24-3 lin. long, 
densely white-pilose, 5-toothed, 10-nerved; hairs more or less distinctly 
reflexed ; teeth subulate or narrowly triangular, about % lin. long, 
Spreading after flowering. Corolla apparently violet-blue ; tube funnel- 
shaped, slightly oblique and curved, 4-44 lin. long, 3 lin. broad at the 
base, 1-1} lin. broad at the throat, adpressed-pilose outside, densely 
pilose at the throat inside; lobes unequal, oblong-obovate to obovate, 
13-3} lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, the lower larger than the upper. 
Anthers acuminate. Style 14 lin. long, clavate at the apex. Capsules 
oblong, 2-24 lin. long, #? lin. broad, mostly in pairs about 4 in. apart, 
rarely up to 1 in. or more apart. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Grootfontein, Schinz, 
40! Omatope, Schinz, 356! 
46. B. pallescens, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 512. An erect 
annual herb 14-13 ft. high, rather slender, sparingly pilose, scabrid on 
the leaves ; stem terete, sometimes branched in the upper part, and 
bearing very short leafy branches in many of the leaf-axils. Leaves 
alternate, linear, 1-2} in. long, 3-2 lin. broad, acute, entire or remotely 
toothed. Flowers in loose spikes terminating the stem and short lateral 
branches, the spikes elongating very much after the fall of the corollas ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, acuminate, shortly 
pilose, ciliate, concave; bracteoles linear, 1} lin. long, otherwise as the 
