512 XCV. GESNERACE& (BAKER AND CLARKE). | Linneopsis. 
7. LINN AOPSIS, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 482, t. 5. 
Calyx small, deeply 5-lobed. Corolla wide-campanulate from the 
base ; limb oblique, unequally 5-fid. Stamens on the corolia, 2 anterior 
fertile; anthers 2, short, confluent. Disc oblique. Ovary oblong 
obovoid, 2-celled ; placentas parietal, not meeting in the centre of the 
ovary; ovules very many. Stigma capitate. Ripe fruit not known.— 
A creeping herb. Leaves distant, all (or nearly all ?) alternate. Peduncles 
solitary from the leaf-axils, 1-7-flowered ; bracts at the divisions of the 
cyme very small, 
Species 1, endemic. 
1. L, heckmanniana, Lng/. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 483, ¢.5. Stems 
8 in. long, dividing, rooting at the nodes, Leaves (blade) round-ovate 
% in. in diam., cordate, crenate, purplish on lower surface, thickly 
clothed on both surfaces with white one-celled hairs; nerves 5-6 pairs ; 
petiole 4 in. long. Peduncles 3 in. long, clothed with many-celled 
gland-tipped hairs ; bracteoles hardly ;4; in. long, oblong ; pedicels } in. 
long. Calyx tin. long; lobes ovate-oblong, glandular-hairy. Corolla 
white, 3 in. long, glandular-hairy. Stamens as of Streptocarpus. Ovary 
glandular-hairy, in the figure, oblong, + by zy in.—General appearance 
as of Linnea borealis, Linn. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uluguru; Lukwangula Plateau, 
5000-6000 ft., Goetze, 251. 
Orver XCVI. BIGNONIACEZ. (By 'T. A. Sprague). 
Flowers hermaphrodite, usually more or less irregular. Calyx 
inferior, gamosepalous, truncate, lobed or spathaceous. Corolla gamo- 
petalous ; tube campanulate, funnel-shaped or tubular, often pilose at 
the insertion of the stamens ; limb bilabiate, the 2-lobed posticous lip 
usually overlapping the 3-lobed anticous lip in bud, more rarely regular. 
Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, 4, didynamous, with a posticous 
staminode, or 5, equal, very rarely 2; filaments filiform or flattened, 
often thickened at the base ; anthers introrse, dehiscing longitudinally ; 
lobes attached at the apex, parallel, divergent or divaricate. Disc 
hypogynous, cushion-shaped, annular or cupular, rarely absent. Ovary 
2-celled or, more rarely, 1-celled with 2 parietal, often much intruded 
placentas ; ovules numerous, anatropous ; style simple, filiform ; stigma 
of 2 flattened lobes. Fruit a 2-valved loculicidal or septifragal capsule, 
or fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds usually flat with a broad, often hyaline 
wing ; embryo usually enveloped in a fine interior membrane (¢egmen) ; 
albumen none; cotyledons flattened, rarely folded ; radicle short, lateral 
very rarely superior).—Trees or shrubs, frequently twiners or climbers, 
very rarely herbs. Leaves opposite, more rarely whorled or alternate, 
usually compound with articulated leaflets, often cirrhiferous ; stipules 
