Sopubia. | XCII. SCROPHULARIACEA (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 55. 
about { in. in diam. Perfect anther-cells oblong, 1} lin. long. Style 
3% lin. long, shortly and sparingly pubescent, broadly lanceolate at the 
apex. Capsule subglobose, about 2 lin. long and broad, sparingly pilose. 
Seeds 4 lin. long, truncate at both ends. 
Mozamb. Dist. German Kast Africa: Livingstone Range, east of Lake 
ee ee / British Central Africa: South Nyika Mountains, 4000-7000 ft., 
vyce . 
20. S. Carsoni, Shan. A robust erect undershrub up to 2 ft. high 
or more, branched chiefly in the upper part, densely white-woolly ; stem 
2-2} lin. in diam. at the hase, terete, very densely leafy; branches 
mostly short, nearly erect. [eaves entire, usually in whorls of 3, with 
tufts of smaller leaves in their axils, linear, 2-1} in. long, 2—? lin. broad, 
acute, slightly revolute. Flowers subsessile in more or less interrupted 
terminal spikes up to 44 in. long. Bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, 
2-2} lin. long. Calyx 3-33 lin. long, very densely white-woolly cutside 
and on the teeth inside, bearing numerous small orange-yellow excres- 
cences chiefly in 10 longitudinal rows inside; teeth linear-triangular, 
1}-~2 lin. long. Corolla 44_5 lin, long, 54 lin. in diam.; lobes obovate, 
23-22 lin. long, 2-21 lin. broad. Perfect anther-cell oblong, 1-1} lin. 
long. Ovary densely woolly; style 3-34 lin. long, pubescent below, 
narrowly lanceolate at the apex. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; 
Carson, 77! Nutt! 
Very near S. densiflora and differs chiefly in having its subsessile flowers much 
less crowded in longer narrower spikes; its indumentum consists of whiter less 
adpressed hairs : the calyx is more densely woolly ; the corolla is smaller; and tie 
style is much narrower at the apex. 
Fwambo, 5000 ft., 
21. S. conferta, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxxvii. 191. Plant 
rigid, erect, up to 16 in. high; stems simple, scarcely } lin. thick, fur- 
rowed, shortly grey-villous-tomentose in the furrows, soon becoming 
glabrous. Leaves crowded, subverticillate, narrowly linear, 74-10 lin. 
long, 4-2 lin. broad, acute, spreading, at first bearing some very slender 
whitish hairs, quickly glabrescent. Flowers sessile in very dense broadly 
oblong terminal spikes up to 2 in. long or more; bracts linear-lanceolate, 
about 5 lin. long and 14 lin. broad, densely villous-woolly on the 
Margin. Calyx 34 lin. long, densely woolly ; teeth triangular-deltoid, 
1} lin. long, acute. Corolla pale crimson; tube funnel-shaped, slightly 
curved, 34 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad above ; lobes ovate, shorter than 
the tube. Anthers coherent in pairs; perfect cells oblong, 1} lin. long. 
Capsule ovoid, 2} lin. long, 14 lin. broad, glabrous, compressed above, 
beaked. 
-Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ruchigga, 6500-7000 ft., Bagshawe, 
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22. S. ugandensis, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 192. 
Plant about 1 ft. high ; stems rigid, erect, stout, simple below, branched 
above, subterete, 14-2 lin. in diam., pubescent along broad lines, other- 
wise glabrous ; branches spreading, very densely leafy, up to 2 in. long 
