432 XU], SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). — [Cyenium. 
Also in South Africa. 
C. adonense, var. adscendens, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe.’ xxix. 128, collected by 
Speke & Grant in Karagwe, Unyoro, &c., is only a small-fowered form. 
2. GC. Verdickii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 125. t. 6. Stems 
numerous, prostrate, ascending or erect, 5-64 in. long, scabridly pubes- 
scent especially towards the base and on the young parts, furnished with 
searious bracts at the base; internodes 5—7} lin. long. Leaves sessile, 
opposite or subopposite, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 in. long (the 
middle ones usually longest), 4-1 in. broad, long-cuneate at the base, 
almost petiolate, crenate-serrate, prominently nerved, with scattered 
hairs more numerous on the under side, especially on the nerves, scabrid. 
Flowers solitary or in pairs, slightly supra-axillary. Pedicels 2—64 lin. 
long ; bracteoles linear, 24-3 lin. long, entire or 2-toothed, attached 
under the calyx or sometimes united more or less to it. Calyx tubular, 
14-2 in. long, with scattered hairs, scabrid ; lobes triangular, 13-5 lin. 
long, acute or subacute. Corolla at first white, soon turning clear blue, 
at length violet; tube 21-3 in. long, narrow, straight, glandular- 
pubescent outside; lobes obovate, about 14 lin. long, the upper about 
twice as broad as the others and slightly bilobed at the apex. Ovary 
ovoid, glabrous, compressed.—C. adonense, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 777, not of E. Meyer. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; near Cazella, Welwitsch, 5868 ! 
Huilla ; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5779! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga; Katanga Plateau, Verdick ; 
uear Lukafu, Verdick, 21€, 355. 
3. C. Buchneri, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii 73. Apparently a 
perennial herb; stem procumbent, branched, more than 1 ft. long, 
minutely pubescent or in places glabrescent ; internodes 2-2} lin. long. 
Leaves distant, shortly petiolate, oblong or the upper oblong-lanceolate, 
2$—5 in. long, 7}—-20 lin. broad, rigid, shining, glabrous below, minutely 
pubescent chiefly on the nerves at the base and slightly scabrid above, 
crenate-serrate, acute, with the nerves and densely reticulate veins 
prominent on both sides especially below; petioles 1-2 lin. long. 
Flowers axillary, opposite. Pedicels 5-9 lin. long; bracteoles linear, 
1 lin. long. Calyx tubular, 2-24 in. long, 34-4 lin. broad, glabrous ; 
lobes 2-2} lin, long and broad, rounded. Corolla white, blue-black when 
dry ; tube 2} in. long, 13-2 lin. broad, glandular-puberulous ; limb up _ 
24 in. in diam. ; lobes broadly obovate, 1 in. long, nearly 10 lin. broad. 
Ovary ovoid, 2—24 lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Mudeng, Buchner, 588! by the River Quango 
Teusez, 516. 
_ 4. C, Camporum, Lng. in Lngl. Jahrb. xviii. 73. Stems ascend- 
ing, often about 1 ft. long, sparingly branched, densely and shortly 
pilose, leafy; branches erect-spreading, sometimes supra-axillary, 4-8 in. 
long ; internodes 1}-2 in. long. Leaves usually opposite or subopposite, 
sessile or very shortly petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1-3} 
(often 14-2) in. long, 4-1 in. broad, serrulate or crenate-serrate, acute, 
