Rhamphicarpa.| XCI. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND sKAN), 429 
1}-3 (sometimes up to 4) lin. long, often elongating after flowering, 
acuminate. Corolla pink, purple or white ; tube 2-1 in. long, curved, 
glandular-puberulous ; limb }-2 (usually 1-1}) in. in diam.; upper 
lip 23-7 lin. long, 4-11 lin. broad, more or less deeply two-lobed ; lobes 
of the lower lip obovate, 2-8 lin. long and broad. Style 2-3 lin. long, 
thickened above. Capsule obliquely ovoid, }-} in. long and broad, 
somewhat compressed, beaked.—DC. Prodr. x. 504; Hiern in Dyer, 
Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 399. R. curviflora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 
368. R. serrata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 228; Vatke in 
Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 11. Gerardia tubulosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 279. 
Cycnium tubulosum, Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 361. CO. serratum, Engl.1.c.360. 
Nile Land. Uganda: 4th March fron Numias, Whyfe/ Eldama Ravine and 
Mau, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Wilson, 121! British 
East Africa : around Nairobi, Whyte! Machakos to Kikuyu, 5000-6000 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 6598 ! 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Ombandya country, 
Schinz, 45! between Uukuambi and Ondonga, Schinz ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ugualla River, Boehm, 127; Isimbiri, 
Boehm, 69 ; between Meru und Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 1612; Usagara Mountains, 
Kirk! between Lake Tanganyika «nd Lake Rukwa, 6000 ft., Nuét! Portuguese 
Kast Africa: Mozambique, Yorbes! Peters; Quilimane, Sco¢é/ near Muata Manja, 
3000 ft., Kirk! Luabo River, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; various 
localities, Carson! Scott-Elliot, 8500! Buchanan, 113! Waller! Meller! Whyte 1 
Kirk! Cunningham, 16! Buchanan, 1343! Moero Plateau, Carson, 16! Rhodes‘a: 
by the Zambesi, near Victoria Falls, Allen, 34! Mashonaland, Bryce! Ngami- 
land ; near the Zouga, Tamalakane und Chobe Rivers, McCabe, 6! Okavango Valley, 
3000 ft., Lugard, 271 by the Botletle River at Matabele Drift,Zugard, 4! 
R.tubulosa is evidently an extremely variable species. We have not seen the ty pe 
of R. serrata, Klotzsch, but the description agries with several specimens at Kew 
which we cannot satisfactorily separate from R. tubulosa. Engler (Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 
360-361) has given names to some extreme forms. 
20. R. hamata, Shan. A herb 16-24 in. high; stem straight, 
erect, simple or sparingly branched, nearly glabrous ; internodes 1}—3 in, 
long. Leaves sessile, linear, 15-22 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, acute or 
very acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, remotely and sparingly 
toothed (2 or 3 teeth each side), glabrous, horny especially on the under 
side; upper leaves narrowly linear, up to lin. long, } lin. broad, entire, 
always distinctly hocked-revolute. Flowers few, axillary near the apex 
of the stem or branch. Pedicels 6-10 lin. long; bracteoles 0. Calyx 
4-5 lin. long, tuberculate chiefly on the lobes ; tube campanulate, 2 lin. 
long; lobes lanceolate-linear, 2-3 lin. long, very acute, spreading. Corolla 
rose; tube 10 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, cylindric, distinctly curved, shortly 
glandular-pilose ; limb 13-14 lin. in diam. ; upper lip } in. long, 2 in. 
broad, 2-lobed ; lobes of the lower lip obovate-orbicular, 6-74 lin. long, 
5-7 lin. broad.—Cyenium hamatum, Engl, & Gilg in Baum, Kunene- 
Samb. Exped. 368. a 
Lower Guinea. Ango'a: near the mouth of the River Quatiri, 3600 {t., 
Baum, 403! 
21. R. aquatica, Skan. Stem glabrous, up to #5} ft. high; 
branches erect, 12-16 in..long; internodes 24-4} in. long. Leaves 
