456 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). | Sopubia. 
‘without inflorescence. Leaves subverticillate, sessile, trifid about as far 
as the middle, rarely bifid or entire, usually 5-10 lin. long, narrowly 
linear, somewhat obtuse, involute on the margin, scabrid ; segments 
narrowly linear, 24-74 lin. long, scarcely } lin. broad. Flowers sessile 
in dense cylindric terminal spikes up to 2 in. long and 7} lin. broad; 
bracts dilated and concave below, trifid above, the uppermost entire, 
about 5 lin. long, 2} lin. broad below; segments linear, 3} Jin. long, 
} lin. broad; bracteoles ovate-spathulate, 3 lin. long, obtuse, with a claw 
} lin. broad and a blade 14 lin. broad. Calyx 44 lin. long ; teeth ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 24 lin. long, ciliate. Corolla red; tube 3 lin. 
long, slightly and gradually dilated upwards; lobes very broadly obovate, 
2 lin. long. Anthers soon becoming free; perfect cells 1 lin. long. 
‘Capsule ovoid, scarcely 2} lin. long, 2 lin. broad, somewhat compressed 
at the apex, retuse; valves entire. Seeds obiong or narrowly ovoid, 
truncate, minutely scrobiculate, fuscous. 
oe Dist. German East Africa: Mpororo; below Ruchigga, Bagshawe, 
502 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
23. S. Candei, Zerracciano in Bull. Soc. Bot, Ital. 1892, 424. 
Leaves simple or 3-partite, very long, rush-like, apiculate. Peduncles 
geniculate and 2-bracteolate at the middle. Calyx-teeth obovate, 
hyaline at the margin. Corolla 3 times longer than the calyx-teeth [or 
calyx 2]. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Gerar-Amaden, Candeo. 
02. BAUMIA, Engl. & Gilgin Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 365, t. 9. 
Calyx narrow-campanulate, slightly constricted at the top of the 
tube, about } in. long; tube strongly 10-ribbed ; lobes 5, nearly equal, 
short, triangular. Corolla-tube cylindrical, not exceeding the calyx; 
limb about 4 in. across, nearly equally 5-lobed ; lobes rounded, reflexed. 
Stamens 4, nearly equal, very shortly exserted ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers glabrous, tree, one cell perfect, opening longitudinally, the other 
- much reduced, club-shaped. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled; ovules numerous 
in each cell; style glabrous, slightly overtopping the stamens, thickened 
towards the tip, curved downwards, with a line of hairs on the under- 
side of the curve. Capsule orbicular, compressed, enclosed in the calyx. 
Seeds unknown. 
Species 1, endemic. 
There is little, if anything, beyond the free anthers to separate this from 
Sopubia. 
1. B. angolensis, Hngl. ¢ Gilg, Ic. 366. An erect slender hispid 
annual herb, 9—12 in. high. Stem simple or slightly branched above 
the middle. Leaves opposite, 1-2 in. long, deeply pinnatifid ; lobes 3-7, 
linear, costate. Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the upper 
Jeaves, and in short, terminal spikes, about 4 in. long. Bracteoles 2, 
