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Rhamphicarpa,| XC, SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 427 
5000-6000 ft., Thomson ! Taita; Ndara Mountain, 1000 ft., Hildebrandt, 2440; 
Galunka, Kassner, 814! Uganda; Elgon District, James! Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 
7479! and without precise locality, Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Lutindi, Holst, 3428 ! 
Kilimanjaro ; Marangu, Meyer, 58, Volkens, 1233! Ugweno Mountain, Meyer, 
191. 
16. R. multicaulis, Sian. A perennial herb with a tuft of long 
fibrous roots; stems numerous, flagelliform, 6 in. long or more, pro- 
cumbent or ascending, terete, pubescent (often bifariously) ; hairs very 
short, deflexed. Leaves mostly opposite, sessile, linear-lanceolate, }—1} 
in. long, 3-14 lin. broad, narrowed at both ends, acuminate, sparingly 
and shortly pubescent, somewhat scabrid, remotely 1—3-toothed each 
side below the middle. Flowers axillary, few, Pedicels 7-9 lin. long ; 
bracteoles linear, 14-24 lin. long, inserted close to or at a short distance 
from the calyx. Calyx 9-10 lin. long, sparingly and shortly hairy 
chiefly on the ribs and margin of the lobes, 10-ribbed ; tube cup-shaped, 
33-4 lin. long, 3-23 lin. broad, slightly broadest at the base; lobes 
linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 5-64 lin. long, 1} lin. broad at the 
base, narrowed to the apex, shortly acuminate. Corolla-tube about 
1} in. long, 14-2 lin. broad, glandular-puberulous; limb 2-2} in. in 
diam. ; upper lip 7-9 lin. long, about 1 in. broad, emarginate; lobes of 
the lower lip broadly elliptic or ovate, about 1 in. long, 9}-11 bu. 
broad, obtuse. Style 2 lin. long, thickened and lanceolate in the upper 
part. Capsule (immature) ovoid, slightly oblique. 
Mozamb. Dist. German Kast Africa: Usambara; Umba Valley, Smith ! 
17. R. montana, V.L. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 129. A small 
herb, more or less hispidly pubescent, sometimes villous or almost 
glabrous; stems 2}~8 in. long, procumbent, slightly woody at the base ; 
branches ascending. Leaves opposite or alternate, lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, $-1 in. long, 1-5 lin. broad, acute, usually acutely toothed 
especially near the base, rarely quite entire, more or less pubescent 
and seabrid. Flowers few, in the axils of the leaves at about the 
middle of the branches. Pedicels 2—9 lin. long; bracteoles narrowly 
linear, 1-2 lin. long. Calyx tubular-campanulate, usually 4-4 lin. 
long, more or less hispidly hairy or villous ; lobes triangular-lanceolate, 
1-3 lin. long, acute or rarely obtuse. Corolla-tube curved, i-T¢ lin. 
long, nearly cylindric, rather densely pubescent ; limb 1-2 in. in 
iam.; upper lip 8-10 lin. long, 10-14 lin. broad, emarginate; lobes 
of the lower lip broadly obovate, 6-11 lin. long, 6-10 lin. broad. 
Capsule unknown.—Hiern in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. ii. 400. 
Nile Land. British East Africa or Uganda: between Kikuyu and Eldama 
Ravine, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 
Mozamb Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; between Charter and 
Buluwayo, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 90! Bulawayo, Rand, 160! 
Also in South Africa. 
18. R. Heuglini, Hochst. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 100. 
An erect herb 3-9 in. high, branched chiefly from the base: stems 
