448 XCII. SCROPILULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). — [Sopubia. 
Leaves mostly in whorls of 3, usually trifid or sometimes with 4 or 5 
segments ; segments narrowly linear, very scabrid, acuminate. Pedicels, 
flowers and capsules as in S. ramosa. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: without precise locality, Schimper, 695! British 
Fast Africa or Uganda; between Kikuya and Eldama Ravine, Whyte! 
Schimper’s 1868, from the Dembea Plain, is allied to this, but it is much less 
hairy, and the flowers are smaller, with longer pedicels. It seems intermediate 
between the above and S. trifida ; it is erroneously referred to S, ramosa in Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 383. 
4, S. karaguensis, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 123,t.87, fig. B. 
An elegant branched undershrub }~1 ft. high, puberulous on the stems 
and branches; branches ascending. Leaves mostly opposite, usually 
with tufts of smaller ones in their axils, pinnatisect, 3-1 in. long, 
somewhat fleshy, the younger pilose; segments 3—5, narrowly linear, 
somewhat horny along the margins. Flowers in loose terminal racemes, 
2-3 in. long. Pedicels 2-3 lin. long; bracteoles narrowly linear, 3 lin. 
long. Calyx 35-33 lin. long, tomentose outside and inside; lobes 9, 
ovate-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, rather more than 1 lin. broad at the base, 
acuminate. Corolla rich pink, about 4 lin. long, 7-8 lin. in diam. ; 
lobes suborbicular, 2-2} lin.in diam. Perfect anther-cell oblong, 1} lin. 
long. Style 34 lin. long.—De Wild. & Durand, Etudes FI. Katanga, 
126; 8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 191. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Kagera Valley, near Mulema, Bagshawe, 298. 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman Kast Africa; Karagwe ; hill-top, 5500 £:; Speke & 
Grant, 411! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lukafu, Verdich ! 
5. S. Welwitschii, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 66. An erect 
rather robust herb, up to 2 ft. high ; stem branched or sometimes 
simple, up to 2 lin. thick, long-pilose, at length more or less glabrescent, 
leafy. Leaves subverticillate, trifid or simple and linear, 1-2 in. long, 
3-1} lin. broad, shortly pubescent, somewhat scabrid, slightly revolute ; 
segments linear, acute, the median longer than the lateral. Flowers in 
an interrupted or almost uninterrupted spike up to 9 in. long. Brac- 
teoles linear or linear-lanceolate, 2-34 lin. long, acute, densely villous. 
Calyx 34-4} lin. long, densely whitish villous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
23-4 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, acute or subacute. Corolla rose, 
crimson in the centre, 44-6 lin. long, 6-8 lin. in diam. ; lobes sub- 
orbicular or broadly obovate, 3-5 lin. Jong, 24-5 lin. broad. Perfect 
anther-cell oblong, 13-2 lin. long. Style 4-54 lin. long, very sparingly 
puberulous below. Capsule subglobose or ovoid, 2—2} lin. long, 13-2 
lin. broad, glabrous.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 773; Engl. & 
Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 365. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Serra Oiahoya, Welwitsch, 5841! Hum- 
pata, Johnston! near Manonge, 4400 ft., Baum, 853! by the River Cunene, 
Johnston ! 
Var. micrantha, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359. Segments of the leaves narrower. 
Flowers smaller. 
