442 —-XCII, SCROPHULARIACE% (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Pseudosopubia. 
scarcely acute, entire; midrib and venation very obscure. Flowers 
about 4 in. long, solitary, axillary on slender bibracteolate pedicels 
about as long as the leaves; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, acute, much 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 5-ribbed, hispid, 
3-34 lin. long, somewhat unequally 5-lobed; lobes longer than the 
tube, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, upper one largest. Corolla 
pubescent, bilabiate, oblique; tube cylindrical and narrow at the base, 
ventricose above; lobes of the limb rounded. Stamens included, 
glabrous. Ovary and style hairy. Capsule glabrous, compressed, 
narrowly winged above the middle, ciliolate, enclosed in the thickened, 
tuberculate, persistent calyx. Seeds very numerous, irregularly cunei- 
form and angular, } lin. long, surface honey-combed and having a 
metallic lustre in strong light. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland: Golis Range at Darra-as, 5000 ft.. Mrs. Lort 
Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole ! 
3. P. kituiensis, Hingl. Jahrb. xxiii. 511. An almost glabrous 
herb or undershrub, apparently of diffuse or trailing habit, with very 
slender, flexible, quadrangular, more or less woody stems and branches. 
Internodes usually about the same length as the leaves, sometimes 
shorter, sometimes longer. Leaves mostly opposite or nearly so, thin, 
very slightly scabrous, linear, }—1 in. long, acute or obtuse, narrowed 
at the base. Flowers solitary a little above the axils of the leaves, 
usually with a small cylindrical gland between the leaf and the pedicel 
and a smaller hemispherical one just above the pedicel. Pedicels very 
slender, 4—5 lin. long. Bracteoles 2, linear, about 2 lin. long, some- 
what spreading, attached a little below the calyx, persistent. Calyx 
very slightly scabrous, campanulate, 24-3 lin. long, nearly equally 
5-lobed ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly keeled, about as long as 
the tube. Corolla slightly hairy inside, slightly hairy outside, glabrous 
within, oblique, 6-7 lin. long, cylindrical at the base, then suddenly 
inflated, nearly equally 5-lobed; lobes rounded, Stamens glabrous, 
included. Ovary slightly hairy ; style glabrous ; stigma small. Capsule 
not seen.—Sopubia kitwiensis, Vatke in Linniea, xliii. 313. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Zi/debrandt, 2750! 
4. P. Hildebrandtii, Hngl. Jahrb. xxiii. 511. A scabrous 
much-branched herb or undershrub, 1-2 ft. high. Branches slender, 
quadrangular, rough with retrorse bristles tubercled at the base. 
Leaves all opposite, linear-oblong, 3-10 lin. long, acute. Flowers 
solitary in the axils of the leaves and bracts, about din. long. P. edicels 
2 lin. long. Bracteoles 2, linear, close under the calyx and shorter than 
the tube. Calyx scabrous with retrorse hairs, campanulate, 2-24 lin. 
long, nearly equally 5-lobed; lobes ovate, scarcely acute, somewhat 
shorter than the tube, hairy on both sides. Corolla oblique, 7-8 lin. 
in diam., hairy outside, glabrous within, inflated from the base ; limb 
nearly equally 5-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens included, glabrous, 
very similar to those of P. obtusifolia ; anthers shorter (?) than the 
filaments. Ovary and lower part of the style pubescent. Style longer 
