Buchnera.j XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 397 
adpressed ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 14 lin. long, acuminate, ciliate. 
Calyx tubular, about 23-4 lin. long, } lin. broad, 10-ribbed ; teeth 
lanceolate, very acute, 3 lin. long. Corolla blue, funnel-shaped ; tube 
5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad; lobes spathulate, about 2-2} lin. long and 
1-1} lin. broad, the lower somewhat longer than the upper.—Durand 
& De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii, 103; DeWild. 
Etudes Fl. Katanga, 123. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Teuscz, 179. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Kasai River, Buchner; Bashilange; Lulua 
River, Pogge, 322! Katanga; between Luapula and Lufila, Descamps; near 
Lukafu, Verdick, 12, 
49. B. hispida, Buch.-Ham. in D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 91. An 
erect annual herb 3-1? ft. high, more or less densely covered with hispid 
hairs, scabrid ; stem simple or branched in the upper part, terete; 
branches ascending. Lower leaves elliptic to oblong, up to 34 in. long 
and 10 lin. broad, obtuse, coarsely or sometimes obscurely toothed, 
often scabrid with minute white points ; upper leaves narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate or linear, usually 1-1} (rarely up to 3) in. long, 1-4 lin. 
broad, usually acute, entire or sometimes sparingly toothed, much 
narrowed at the base. Flowers in loose interrupted terminal spikes 
usually under 6 in. long; bracts ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate at the 
base and subulate at the apex, 1-4 lin. long, acuminate, pilose or 
glabrous except on the ciliate margin, concave; bracteoles subulate 
to linear-lanceolate, 3-12 lin. long. Calyx 13-4 lin. long, rather 
densely covered with spreading hispid hairs ; teeth narrowly deltoid to 
linear-triangular, 3-1 lin. long, very acute. Corolla-tube 23-4} lin. 
long, straight, cylindric, glabrous outside or with a few minute hairs 
near the throat, rarely distinctly hairy ; lobes oblong-obovate to obovate- 
cuneate, ?~1? lin. long, $-1 lin. broad. Anthers acuminate. Style 
2-1§ lin. long. Capsule elliptic-oblong, 24-3} lin. long.—Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. x.496; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 128; Vatke in Linnea, 
xliii. 309 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 381, and Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 
360; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 366; Almagia in 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 142; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 298; 
Wight, Ic. Pl. t, 1413. B. schimperiana, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. 
mrodr. x. 496. BP. macrocarpa, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 128. 
Striga schimperiana, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 128, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 132! Gambia, Boteler ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Mensa, Terracciano & Pappi. Abyssinia: Tigre ; 
Adowa, Steudner, 789! Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 23! Addi-Dschoa (Additcha ?), 
Schimper, 346! Mountains near Axum, Schimper, 1516! Shireh, Quartin-Dillon 
§ Petit, 208! and without precise locality, Schimper, 774! British East Africa : 
near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2034! Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 6783 partly! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; between Mahutzua and Ediva, Baum, 
970! German South-west Africa : Amboland; Upingtonia, Schinz, 13! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Duga, Holst, 3183! 
Portugnese East Africa: Zambesi Delta ; between Mambucha and Vicente, Scott! 
Also in Madugascar and India. 
