Sopubia. | XCII, SCROPHULARIACEA (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 447 
Jahrb. xxviii. 478, and xxx. 403; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 
71; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 213; De Wild. & Durand, 
Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fase. 2, 46; Engl. in Schlechter, Westafr. 
Kautsch.-Exped. 313, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii: 27; Hiern 
in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 388; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 302. Gerardia 
Sopubia, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 210, 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Coromma; near Burgi, Riva, 1335. Uganda, 
4400-7000 ft.: Kavirondo; Nandi to Mumias, Whyte! Man, Scott-Elliot, 6626! 
British East Africa: Lykipia, 6000-8000 ft., Tomson ! Kikuyu, Scott-Elliot, 
6685 ! 
South Central. Angola: Lunda; between the Luashima (Luachim) and 
Chiumbue Rivers, Marques, 317. Congo Free State: Bolobo; Lukolela, Bittner g 
basin of the Lulua River, Pogge; district of the cataracts, Laurent; Belem, 
Demeuse ; near Bonga, at the mouth of the River Sanga, Schlechter, 12667. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe; Uchungwe Mountains, 
Goetze, 627 ; Upper Kondeland ; Usafua, Goetze, 1079. British Central Africa : 
Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar, India, China, Philippine Islands and 
Australia. 
Var. decumbens, Skan. Stems decumbent, only 3-6 in. long.—S. decumbens, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 772, partly. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5839 partly ! 
2. S. Eminii, “ngl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 359. An erect compact herb 
1 ft. high or more, very much branched from near the base upwards ; 
stem up to 21 lin. thick at the base, tapering upwards, terete below, 
obscurely quadrangular above, sparingly and shortly pubescent ; 
branches opposite, slender, ascending, the lower as long as or longer 
than the stem, leafy. Leaves opposite, pinnatisect or sometimes 
bipinnatisect, up to about 1/4 in. long, often with short leafy branches 
in their axils; segments very narrowly linear, usually 1 or 2 on each 
side, revolute, scabrid. Flowers very numerous, small, opposite, in 
loose terminal racemes up to about 4 in. long. Pedicels 3-4} lin. long, 
very slender; bracteoles linear, 1} lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long, 
glabrous except on the pilose margin of the teeth ; teeth ovate, % lin. 
long, obtuse or scarcely acute. Corolla 3} lin. long, 4 lin. in diam. ; 
lobes broadly obovate, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad. Perfect anther-cell 
harrowly ovoid, nearly 1 lin. long. Style 2} lin. long. Capsule sub- 
ovoid, 1} lin. Jong and broad, slightly compressed, emarginate, shortly 
apiculate, glabrous. Seeds } lin. long, slightly curved, truncate at 
both ends, 
Nile Land. Uganda: Kavirondo; 4th march from Mumias, Whyte! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kome Island, in Lake Victoria, Stuhd- 
mann, 3582; Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3848; Ihangiro, Stuhlmann, 3334 ! 
3. S. similis, Skan. Apparently a much dwarfer plant than S. 
ramosa, Schimper’s specimen being only 1 ft. high with several rather 
slender stems arising from a short woody stock; stems shortly 
pilose, the hairs in lines alternating with the insertion of the leaves. 
