066 XCVII. PEDALINE# (STAPF). | Pretrea. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: near Malindi, Allen, 157! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Kalolo, on the River Kubango, 3600 ft., Baum ! 
German South-west Africa : Amboland; Olukonda, Rawtanen, 275a! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer! Roquett in Herb. Welwitsch, 1656- 
German East Africa: Dar es Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1133! Portuguese East Africa : 
Opposite Mozambique, Peters ! Inhambane, Peters; Lower Zambesi; Sena, 
Peters; Mouth of the Zambesi, Kirk / Kongone River, Kirk, 334! Missongwe, 
on the Loiver Zambesi, Scott! Namuli Hills, Makua Country, Last! British 
Central Africa: Lake Shirwa, Kirk! Mashonaland : Salisbury, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn 
Cecil, 73! Bechuanaland: Leshumo Valley, Holub, 710! 842! Negamiland: 
Botletle Valley, LIugard, 208! Shesheke, on the Zambesi, Holub, 541! 542! 
Also in South Africa. 
10. LINARIOPSIS, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1060. 
Calyx small, 5-partite ; segments linear, the posticous much shorter 
than the others. Corolla subobliquely campanulate; limb oblique, 
vorrect ; lowest lobe longer than the others. Stamens 4, subdidyna- 
mous, not converging; filaments filiform; anthers oblong, dorsifixed ; 
cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally to the base. Disc annular, equal. 
Ovary 1-celled, very imperfectly divided at the base; ovules 2 from the 
base, erect. Fruit ellipsoid, obtusely quadrangular, slightly dorsally 
compressed, hard, indehiscent or very tardily dehiscent at the apex, 
and at right angles to the imperfect septum, with an acute keel over 
the back of each carpel and a faint one over their commissures ; 
tubercled between the keels. Seeds 2 or 1, obovate, margins narrowly 
winged towards the base, faces smooth.—Perrenial, prostrate herbs. 
Leaves small, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers rather small, violet, solitary 
in the axils of the leaves. 
Species 1, endemic. 
1. L. prostrata, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 53. Root 
cylindric or fusiform, as thick as a finger. Stem branched from the 
base ; branches prostrate, up to 4 ft. long, pubescent ; internodes 3-5 
lin. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, subobtuse at both ends, 
up to 7 lin. long, 3-4 lin. broad, entire or sparingly and obscurely 
dentate, ciliolate, densely covered below with white glands, other- 
wise almost glabrous ; petioles very short or hardly any. Calyx 1} 
lin, long, hairy, persistent. Corolla purplish with dark purple streaks 
and spots in the throat, scarcely 4 in. long. Fruit 24-38 lin. long. 
Seeds rotundate-obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 14 to almost 
2 lin. long.—Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 264, fig. 
97, H—K; 98, C; Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371. 
Lower Guinea, Angola : Huilla; between Mumpulla and Humpata, 4000- 
5000 ft., Welwitsch, 1659! on moors by the Kubango River, below Massaca, 4000 ft., 
Baum, 286. 
Welwitsch describes the flowers as purplish, Baum as. of a dirty yellowish-brown- 
Welwitsch’s dried specimens combine both colours. 
