770 LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACE#. [ Melasma 
purple nerves, spreading at the time of the open flower ; stamens 4, 
moderately curved ; filaments densely bearded with long hairs; 
anther-cells distinct ; ovary globose, style clavate, thick; stigma 
on a level with the stamens; capsule pyriform, with a furrow on 
each side; 2-celled, the cells many-seeded. 
MossaMEDES.—In sandy places at the river Bero near Cavalheiros, 
sparingly, at the roots of Cotula or similar plant; fl. and fr. 27 June 
1859. No. 5812. 
8. M. pictum Hiern, sp. n. 
An annual, parasitical herb, 4 to 12 in. high, scattered with 
short whitish hispid hairs, erect ; rhizome with bright orange- 
coloured fibres ; stem naked and bright orange-coloured at the 
base, hispidulous; branches erect-patent; leaves oblong or 
lanceolate, ranging up to 1} in. long by } in. broad, the lower ones 
opposite, the upper and floral ones alternate, all subdentate, 
obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, sessile or subsessile, 
herbaceous-green ; flowers about } in. long, subsessile, solitary in 
the axils and gradually arranged in terminal spikes ; calyx broadly 
campanulate, about + in. long, 5-cleft halfway down; the lobes 
broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse; the tube bibracteate at the 
base, the bracts chordiform, about ;', to ;/5 in. long ; corolla cam- 
panulate, membranous, scarcely bilabiate, saffron-coloured ; the 
5 segments each marked with three reddish lines or nerves, sub- 
equal, rounded-obtuse, the lowest one a little larger than the rest; 
stamens 4, didynamous; the filaments shaggy from the middle 
to the apex; the anthers 2-celled; the cells unequal, bearded, 
attenuated upwards, the larger one embracing the smaller in a 
half-spiral ; ovary 2-celled, the dissepiment placentiferous ; style 
simple, nearly straight ; stigma longer than the style, thickened, 
tongue-shaped, decurrent on both sides of the style, hooked- 
recurved ; capsule subglobose, apiculate at the apex with the style 
or its remains. 
HvILia.—In swampy pastures between Lopollo and the Monino, 
parasitical on the roots of Leguminose and Convolvulace ; fl. and fr. 
middle of May 1860. No. 5799. 
16. GERARDIINA Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. 507, t. x. fig. e—n. 
1. G, angolensis Engl., J.c. 
Gerardia sp.,O. Kuntze, Rey. Gen. Pl. iii. 2, pp. 232, 234 (1898). 
Hvi_ia.—An erect or ascending bright green herb ; roots stolo- 
niferous ; stems reddish ; flowers purple-violet or violet-blue. By the 
Lopollo and Humpata streams, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and 
April 1860. No. 5846. 
17. MICRARGERIA Benth. ; Benth. & Hk. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 971. 
1. M. scopiformis Eng. Pfl. Ost.-Afr., C., p. 359 (1895). 
Gerardianella scopiformis Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. 
p. 229, t. 36 (1861). 
Punco ANDONGO.—An erect herb, 2 ft. high, branched like a broom; 
root apparently perennial. In marshy places near Quibanga, plentiful ; 
fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5858. 
