Baumia. | . XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 457 
lanceolate, costate, equalling the calyx, somewhat obtuse. Calyx 
coarsely hairy outside, glabrous within ; lobes about a quarter the length 
of the tube. Corolla-limb about } in. across. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: by the River Onschingue, not far from the River 
Kuito, 4000 ft., Bawm, 785! 
53. MICRARGERIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 971. 
Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-toothed ; teeth semi-ovate or narrowly 
deltoid, obtuse or acute. Corolla-tube exserted, enlarged above, often 
incurved; limb slightly two-lipped, spreading; lobes 5, entire, sub- 
equal, the two upper inside. Stamens 4, slightly didynamous, included ; 
anthers free, 2-celled ; cells distinct, parallel or slightly arched, affixed 
at the apex, obtuse or apiculate at the base, both fertile, nearly quite 
equal or 1 cell of each anther, especially of the lower stamens, distinctly 
shorter than the other. Style slightly thickened at the apex, elongated, 
‘obtuse; ovules numerous. Capsule globose or subglobose, loculicidai 
and septicidal ; valves 2 or 4. Seeds numerous, small, oblong-cuneate ; 
testa rather loose.—Slender rigid erect often scabrid branched herbs, 
drying blackish. Lower leaves opposite or sometimes all alternate, 
linear, entire, or trifid. Flowers small, in the axils of the upper leaves 
‘or in terminal racemes, 2-bracteolate.—Gerardianella, Klotzsch in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 229, t. 36. 
Species 4, 1 in India and 1 in the Mascarene Islands. 
Plant puberulous, seabrid ; capsule 14-13 lin. in diam. 1. I. scopiformis. 
Plant glabrous, smooth ; capsule 2-2} lin. in diam. . 2. M. Barteri. 
1. M. scopiformis, Ungl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 359. A slender rigid 
‘erect annual herb 1-2} feet high, minutely puberulous and very scabrid 
on all the green parts; stem subtetragonal, usually simple below, very 
much branched above; branches erect-spreading, very slender, up to 
1 ft. long or more. Leaves opposite, narrowly linear or filiform, 2 in. 
long, erect or erect-spreading. Flowers nearly always opposite in loose 
terminal racemes 14-6 in. long. Bracts similar to the leaves but 
smaller. Pedicels 3—4 lin. long; bracteoles narrowly linear or subulate, 
3-2 lin. long. Calyx campanulate, 14-24 lin. long, 10-nerved ; teeth 
deltoid or ovate, 4-1 lin. long, acute. Corolla pale purple or whitish- 
rosy, purple-striate near the base of the tube, 4-5 lin. long and about 
the same in diam. at the base, campanulate, contracted at the base into 
a short tube, densely pubescent outside; lobes suborbicular, ql} lin. 
in diam., obtuse or acute. Anthers quite distinct, 2-celled, with both 
ells fertile; cells subequal or usually one (especially in the lower 
anthers) distinctly larger than the other; larger cell 4-1} lin. long ; 
Smaller cell }—3 lin. long. Style 14-3 lin. long. Capsule subglobose, 
slightly compressed, 1}-13 lin. in diam., usually quite glabrous.—Engl. 
& Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 365. Gerardianella scopt- 
Sormis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 229, t. 36. Sopubia 
