420) XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND sKAN). [Rhamphicarpa. 
about 1 ft. high ; stem more or less distinctly quadrangular, glabrous ; 
branches erect-spreading. Leaves pinnatisect or sometimes bipinnati- 
sect, up to 3 in. long; segments 2-4 or sometimes more on each side, 
often opposite, narrowly linear, somewhat obtuse, the lower usually 
3-} in. long, the upper shorter, densely covered along the margins with 
minute whitish callosities. Pedicels }-14 (often 4-3) in. long, ereet- 
spreading, somewhat rigid ; bracteoles 2, narrowly linear, 3—14 lin. long, 
often opposite, at or near the middle of the pedicels. Calyx broadly 
ecampanulate, 24-34 lin. long and about as broad; tube }~ lin. long; 
lobes erect-spreading, ovate to lanceolate, subulate-acuminate at the 
apex, glabrous except for a few whitish callosities. Corolla white, 
1-1} in. long, minutely and sparingly pubescent, very thin; tube 
Straight, about 2 lin. broad in the lower part, about 1} lin. broad at the 
apex; limb 5-9 lin. in diam.; lobes suborbicular, 2—3} lin. in diam. 
Capsule ovoid, very much compressed, 4—54 lin. long without the beak, 
3—4 lin. broad, almost 2-winged ; beak straight or nearly straight, 3-4 
lin. long. Seeds oblong, about } lin. long ; testa coarsely reticulate.— 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 133; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122; 
‘Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 100; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 480; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 778, and in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. il. 398 ; 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. FI. Congo, i. fase. 2, 45; 8. Moore m 
Journ. Bot. 1900, 468. Rk. longiflora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 
i, 368, partly, not of Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 504; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 211; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
i. 74. Macrosiphon fistulosus, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 374. M. elon- 
gatus, Hoechst. l.c. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: St. Louis Island, Leprieur! Northern Nigeria : 
Nupe; Jeba, on the Niger, Barter, 1713! 
Wile Land. Nubia: island in the Nile near Dabbe, Ehrenberg. Abyssinia: 
Shireh, Petit! Quartin-Dillon; near Gapdia and Gafta, Schimper, 826! near 
Sanka-Berr, Schimper, 1220! Kordofan: Mount Arashkol, Kotschy, Tia! 77b! 
and without precise locality, Kotschy, 63! Gazelle River, Schweinfurth, 47! 1139! 
Meshra, Schweinfurth, 1231! Uganda: Madi, Speke & Grant! : 
South Central. Congo Free State : between Leopoldville und Mombazi 
(Mbasi), Gillet ; Lusambo, Duchesne. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Cuanza, ner 
Cavallo, Welwitsch, 5889! Mata Lucala, Welwitsch, 5862! 5889b! Lower Congo : 
Stanley Pool, Hens, 96! Schlechter, 12557! and without precise locality, Smith ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe; near Makenera, Goetze, 709! 
British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Umbuka River, Scott ! Nyika Plateau, $000 ft. 
Me Clounie, 96! near Mount Chiradzulu, Cameron, 100! Rhodesia : Buluwayo, Rand, 
387. 
Also in Madagascar and South Africa. 
2. R. recurva, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122, t. 87, fig. 4 
An erect branched slender annual herb about | ft. high ; stem some 
what woody, obscurely quadrangular ; branches bifariously strigillose. 
Leaves pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, opposite or the upper alternate, 
about 1 in. long, the floral shorter; segments narrowly ens: : 
scabrid with white points. Pedicels 1 lin. long ; bracteoles narrowly 
