Sopubia.|  XCII. SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 449 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5500- 
6200 ft., Volkens, 1997 ! 
6. S. latifolia, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 66. Stem erect, 
densely pilose ; internodes about 10 lin. long. Leaves subverticillate or 
verticillate, ovate, 8-10 lin. long, 6 lin. broad, obtuse, minutely apicu- 
late, subtruncate or subcordate at the base, scabrid on both sides. 
Inflorescence a raceme 1 ft. long or more; bracts similar to the leaves 
but smaller. Pedicels of the lower flowers 74-10 lin. long, with spread- 
ing hairs; bracteoles oblong or elliptic, 23 lin. long, 14 lin. broad,. 
stalked, inserted a little below the calyx. Calyx cup-shaped, about. 
43 lin. long, densely covered with minute hairs, scabrid ; teeth semi- 
ovate, almost 14 lin. long, long-pilose on the margin. Corolla large ;: 
lobes obovate, 5 lin. long and broad. Anthers 3-34 lin. long. Style: 
about 10 lin. long, much dilated at the apex. Capsule ellipsoid, about 
+ lin. long and 2# lin. broad, slightly emarginate at the apex. 
South Central. Lunda: Bashilange; Mukenge, Pogge, 1112! 
7. S. ramosa, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 27. A robust erect scabrid’ 
undershrub 2-4 ft. high or sometimes more, freely branched usually 
above ; stem and branches terete, often rather densely pubescent (the- 
hairs mostly in 3 or 4 rows alternating with the insertions of the leaves), 
densely leafy ; branches ascending, the lower usually longer than the 
Upper, giving the plant a pyramidal habit. Leaves usually in whorls 
of 4 or 3, linear or linear-lanceolate, up to 14 in. long (often $-1 in. 
long), 4-1} lin. broad, acute, more or less pubescent, scabrid, revolute. 
Flowers usually in whorls of 4 or 3 in long terminal racemes. Pedicels. 
{+2 lin. long; bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, 14-23 lin. long. 
Ualyx 24-31 lin. long, shortly pubescent and scabrid outside, 10-ribbed ; 
teeth deltoid, 1-13 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad at the base, acute, 
tomentose inside. Corolla coppery purple, rosy-purplish, rose, or white 
with a deep purple spot at the base of each lobe, about 5 lin. long, 
5-7 lin. in diam.; lobes broadly obovate or suborbicular, 24-3 lin. in 
diam. Anther coherent; perfect cells oblong, 1} lin. long. Style 5 lin. 
long, flattened at the apex. Capsule ovoid, 2} lin. long, emarginate,. 
glabrous. Seeds rather more than 3 lin. long, flattened, truncate at 
both ends.—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 522; A. Rich. Tent. F). Abyss. li. 
132; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 230; Oliver in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxix. 123; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 773; S. Moore 
in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxxvii. 191. S. trifida, var. ramosa, Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 383; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 65 ; Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr. ©. 359, Engl. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 27, and in 
Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 313; Dewévre in Comptes- 
rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 1038. Raphidophyllum ramosum, Hochst. 
in Flora, 1841, 668. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Ala‘anyo, Krause! Lagos: Abeokuta, Irving, 100! 
oo Nigeria : Borgu, Barter, 774! Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker § Staudt, 
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