764 LXXXIX, SCROPHULARIACEA, | Lindernia 
jy to § in. long; calyx campanulate-oblong, } in. long, shortly 
5-cleft ; the teeth from an ovate base acuminate, acute, ciliolate, 
about half as long as the smooth tube; corolla bilabiate, blue ; 
stamens 4, didynamous, all perfect; style 3 in. long, rather 
thickened upwards ; stigma rather dilated. 
Hviiyia.—In wet pastures on the Humpata plateau, rather rare ; fl. 
April 1860, No. 5784. 
5. L,? montana Hiern, sp. nov. 
An erect puberulous herblet, simple or sparingly branched, 
annual, 1 to 2 in. high; stem and branches tetragonal, rather 
slender ; branches alternate when present,'\erect-patent or spread- 
ing; leaves opposite, ovate or broadly elliptical, obtuse at the 
apex, obtusely narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, crenate- 
dentate on the narrowly cartilaginous margins, subsessile, § to 
} in. long by } to } in. broad ; internodes mostly longer than the 
leaves; flowers subfasciculate in very abbreviated opposite 
axillary and terminal clusters, 2 to 4 together or solitary in each 
axil, subsessile or occasionally on slender pedicels ranging up to 
1 in. long, sometimes abortive ; calyx hispidulous, ;4, to } in. long ; 
the teeth in fruit lanceolate-subulate, about ,*, in. long or shorter, 
the tube more or less oblong; corolla pale purple; style =, to 
js in. long or in abortive flowers about } in. long, minutely bifid 
and often capped at the apex with the remains of a portion of 
the marcescent corolla; fruit oblong, somewhat ellipsoidal, 
acuminate at the apex } to 4 in. long, 2-celled, the cells several- 
seeded, the pericarp thin, the seeds papillose-muriculate. 
HvuiitLta.—In open mountainous places, carpeted with mosses and 
small Cyperacex, in Morro de Lopollo; in late fl. Dec. 1859 and in fr. 
end of Jan. 1860. No. 5787. 
This plant somewhat resembles in habit //ysanthes nana Engl. 
11. ILYSANTHES Rafin. Ann. Nat. p. 13 (1820); Benth. & 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 955. 
Bonnaya Link & Otto, Ic. Pl. Sel., fase. 2, p. 25, t. 11 (1821); 
Benth. & Hook. f., Zc., p. 956. 
1. I. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 504, t. ix. (1897). 
Hvuiiia.—Corolla whitish, the lower lip purplish. In very elevated 
damp places in Morro de Lopollo among mosses ; fl. beginning of May 
1860. No. 5781. 
2. I, nana Engl., /.c.. p. 505. 
Huiiia.—A herb, annual in habit but apparently lasting for several 
years, 1 to 2 in. high, branched at the base or nearly simple ; stem 
tetragonal; leaves rather fleshy, mostly purplish beneath ; corolla 
white ; the upper lip much narrower than the lower, bilobed at the 
apex, its lobes rather fleshy ; the lower lip purplish, 3-lobed, its lobes 
denticulate, the middle one larger than the others and obovate ; 
stamens 4, the two posterior ones fertile, the anterior ones inserted at 
the base of the lower lip and sterile. In open moist places near 
Lopollo; fl. and fr. Jan 1860. No. 5788. Flowers purple. In the 
pastures of Empalanca among mosses, alge, and short grasses ; fl. and 
fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 5789. 
