Lindernia] LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACES. 763 
11. LINDERNIA Allioni in Miscell. Taurin. iii. p. 178, t. 5, 
fig. 1 (1766). Vandella P. Browne ex L. Mant. Pl. p. 12, n. 
1265 (1767); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 955. 
1. L. nummulariefolia Wettst. in. Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3), p. 79 (1891). 
Vandellia numularifolia D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 86 (1825). 
Pyxidaria nummularifolia O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 464. 
Pungo ANpDoNGO.—An annual herblet, inhabiting marshes and 
growing after the manner of a Rorippa ; corolla pale blue variegated 
with yellow; the two anterior stamens exserted, sterile? In pools by 
the streams and springs of the presidium, near Cabondo and Catete :; 
fl. and unripe fr. end of Dec. 1856. No. 5872. Flowers purple. In 
open rocky places among short grass in the presidium; fl, and fr. 
April 1857. No. 5873. 
Var. sessiliflora. 
Vandellia sessiliflora Benth. Scrophular. Indic. p. 37 (1835). 
Mitranthus latifolius Hochst. m Flora xxvii. p. 103 (1844). 
M. triflora Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. in. n. 1728 (U.2., 
1844); A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 120 (1851). LZ. sessiliflora 
Wettst., lc. Pyaxidaria nummularifolia, var. O. Kuntze, l.c. 
Punco Anponco.—A dwarf, annual, erect herblet, sparingly 
branched or simple ; leaves opposite, subsessile, as are also the purplish 
flowers. In open rocky moist parts of the presidium, sparingly ; fi. 
and fr. April 1857. No. 5878. 
2. L. diffusa Wettst., /.c., p. 80. 
Vandellia diffusa L. Mant. Pl. p. 89 (1767). Pyaxidaria diffusa 
O. Kuntze, l.c. 
Srprra Leone.—An annual, branched herb ; branches prostrate, 
rooting ; flowers milk-white. In damp muddy places by the road in 
the ascent to the cataract of Sugar-Loaf mountain, above Freetown, 
plentiful ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5924. 
3. L. senegalensis. 
Vandellia senegalensis Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 416 (1846). 
Pyxidaria senegalensis O. Kuntze, l.c., p. 465. 
AmBaca.—A herb, apparently perennial with a sub-tuberous root, 
prostrate, creeping, with the habit of Gratiola; flowers violet-red, 
quickly withering. By pools near springs between Pamba and Puri- 
Cacarambola, rather rare ; fil. and fr. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 5913. 
4. L, uvens Hiern, sp. nov. 
An annual herb, 2 to 4 in. high, nearly glabrous ; stem erect, 
simple or nearly so, tetragonal, minutely scabrid-puberulous, 
slender, pale yellowish-green, leafy below, sparingly leafy above ; 
leaves opposite or the uppermost floral ones alternate, ovate 
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse at the apex or the floral ones sub- 
acute, more or less broad at the sessile base, pale green, minutely 
glandular-punctate and pulverulent-puberulous, ~,—3 in. long, 
minutely ciliolate on the entire margins ; flowers few, } in. long, 
terminal and in the upper axils ; peduncles very short, at their base 
with an ovate subacute pallid concave adpressed floral leaf of 
