Cycnium.| XCII, SCROPHULARIACEA (HEMSLEY AND SKAN) 431 
Calyx 12 lin. long ; corolla-tube 1-1} in. long; 
limb 63—73 lin. in diam. ° ‘ 
Stems quite erect ; flowers racemose; corolla-tube 
10-12 lin. long . : : : : . 6. C. questieauxianum. 
5. C. brachycalyx. 
** Calyx slit on one side. 
Stems and underside of the leaves fulvous-tomen- 
tose ; corolla-tube up to 24 in. long : : 
Stems and leaves shortly hispid ; corolla-tube 14 
in, long : : : 5 : : 
7 
. C. tomentosum. 
8. C. erectum. 
1. C. adonense, L. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 
(1835), 368. A pubescent scabrid perennial robust herb with strong 
fibrous roots; stems often branched from the somewhat woody base, 
procumbent or ascending, from a few inches to a foot long or more, 
leafy. Leaves usually opposite, shortly petiolate or sessile, oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 (usually 2) in. long, 4-1 in. broad, serrate, 
crenate-serrate or incised-dentate, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, 
cuneate at the base. Flowersaxillary. Pedicels 2—12 (often 4-6) lin. 
long; bracteoles linear, 24—4 (rarely up to 84) lin. long. Calyx tubular, 
¢-1? (usually about 14) in. long, 3-34 lin. broad at the top of the tube, 
often densely covered on the ribs with somewhat deflexed hairs and 
pulverulent or puberulous between the ribs, 10-12-ribbed ; tube 7—12 
lin. long; lobes oblong to lanceolate-triangular, rarely deltoid-ovate, 
33-8 lin. long, rarely 2 lin. long or less, }-2} lin. broad, usually acute 
or shortly acuminate. Corolla white or lilac, often blackish when dry ; 
tube 24-3 in. long, gibbous $—% in. from the limb, glandular-pilose ; 
limb 2-3 in. in diam.; upper lip about 1 in. long and 14 in. broad, 
deeply emarginate ; lobes of the lower lip suborbicular broadly obovate, 
11-14 lin. long, 10-134 lin. broad. Style 4-? in. long, much flattened 
in the upper part. Capsule ovoid or elliptic, 6-74 lin. long, 44 lin. 
broad, fleshy, indehiscent ? obtuse—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 505; 
Oliver in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 122, t. 88; Britten in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 29; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 479; Durand & 
Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, i. 212; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 395. 
C’. adoense, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 969; 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 
1900, 468, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 191. C. longiflorum, 
Kekl. & Zeyh. ex Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122. Cyenium sp. n., 
T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 642. 
Nile Land. Nile, Petherick! Uganda: Madi, Speke & Grant! Nandi, 
7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7053! Mulema, Bagshawe, 229! Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 
2! and without precise locality, Wilson, 71! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Kassai River; Koango, Biittner. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ukami; between Mgeta and Mbakana, 
Goetze, 341; bed of the Mgasi, Goetze, 140; Uhehe; Muhinde Steppe, Goetze, 
515 ; Urundi, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 82U8 ! higher plateau north of Lake Nyasa 
Thomson ! Portuguese East Africa: Makua Country; Namuli Hills, Last! near 
Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 448! Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk / British Central 
Africa : Urungu; Fwambo, Carson, 121! Tanganyika Plateau, Carson ! Nyasaland ; 
various localities, Purves, 64! Whyte, 71! 284! Kirk! Waller! Meller! Scott- 
Elliot, 8502! Buchanan, 32! 84! 1000! 1340! Scott! Rhodesia: Buluwayo, 
Rand, 161! 
