426 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEZ (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). | hamphicarpa. 
14. R. ajugifolia, Skan. A decumbent herb, branched below, 
the branches, leaves, and calyces furnished with white hairs thickened 
at the base; branches curved, 8-10 in. long, greyish-violet, densely 
white-pilose ; internodes 7$-10 lin. long. Leaves obovate or obovate- 
cuneate, 74-10 lin. long, about 5 lin. broad, coarsely few-toothed, white- 
pilose, with some of the hairs thickened at the base ; teeth $—1 lin. long 
and broad. Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicels 1 lin. 
long; bracteoles narrowly linear, 14-34 lin. long, acute, densely pilose. 
Calyx 34-5} lin. long, densely pilose outside, 10-ribbed; tube 14-2 lin. 
broad ; lobes lanceolate, 14-24 lin. long, $—? lin. broad, acute. Corolla- 
tube funnel-shaped, 84 lin. long, 1} lin. broad near the base, slightly 
broader above the middle, glandular-puberulous; limb 7 lin. long, 63 
lin. broad; upper lip 34 lin. long, 4? lin. broad, 2-lobed ; lobes about 2 
lin. long and broad, rounded ; lobes of the lower lip broadly obovate, 
3-34 lin. long, 24-23 lin. broad. Ovary obliquely ovoid, compressed 
above, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; style 2} lin. long, thickened above.— 
Cycnium ajugefolium, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 74. C. ajugifolium, 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 360. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: probably Masai Highlands, Fischer, 
104! 
15. R. herzfeldiana, Vatke in Linnea, xiii. 311. A weak 
branched straggling undershrub, usually densely covered on all the 
green parts with rather long soft hairs or sometimes with the leaves 
shortly hairy or glabrescent; stems 9-15 in. long or more, terete ; 
branches often more than 6 in. long, slender, spreading ; internodes 
1-1} in. long. Leaves usually opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceo- 
late, ovate or lanceolate, 3-2 in. long, 5-14 lin. broad, acute, more or 
less cuneate at the base, serrate-dentate, scabrid ; lower teeth larger 
sometimes much larger, than the upper ; petiole ?—24 lin. long. Flowers 
axillary, 1 or 2 toeach pair of leaves. Pedicels #—2 in. long, often 
about 1} in. long; bracteoles linear, 34 lin. long, inserted on the base 
of the calyx or just below. Calyx 7-9 lin. long, accrescent ; tube cam- 
panulate, 3-4 lin. long, 10-nerved; lobes broadly oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, sometimes triangular, 4-54 lin, long, 14-2 lin. broad, acute 
or somewhat obtuse. Corolla-tube 9-11 lin. long, 14-14 lin. broad, 
curved, sometimes distinctly gibbous above the middle, glandular- 
puberulous ; limb 1-1} in. in diam.; upper lip 5—7 lin. long, 7-8 lin. 
broad, emarginate ; lobes of the lower lip obovate, 5-7 lin. long, 44-63 
lin. broad. Filaments bearded ; anthers oblong, 1} lin. long. Style 1 
lin. long, thickened in the upper part. Capsule suborbicular, slightly 
oblique, 7 lin. long including the beak, 6 lin. broad, much compressed ; 
beak only about 1 lin. long. Seeds ellipsoid, } lin. long; testa reticu- 
late.—R. herzfeldiana, var.? subauriculata, Vatke, 1.c. 312. Cycnrum 
herzfeldianum, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 74, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, vii. 29; forme Holstii and subauriculata, Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 
360. C. Meyeri-Johannis, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 383, not of 
Eng). Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. oe 
Wile Land. Gralla Country: between Tumpé and Ciaffa, Riva, 1252. British 
East Africa: Ukamba; Hildebrandt, 2736! Scott-Elliot, 6310! Kapte Plateau, 
