172 LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACES. [ Velwitsia 
with violet-coloured veins ; capsule loculicidal, about } in. long, 
oval, pointed, somewhat compressed; style nearly 4 in. long, 
glabrous ; seeds ;'; in. long. 
Huitia.—In moist thickets near Ohai towards Lopollo, at an eleva- 
tion ipa ft., sparingly ; fr. and a few fl. beginning of May 1860. 
No. : 
19. BOPUSIA Presl, Bot. Bemerk. p. 91 (1844). 
Graderia Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 521 (1846) ; Benth. & Hook. 
f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 970. 
1. B. scabra Presl, /.c. 
Gerardia scabra L. f. Suppl. Pl. p. 279 (1781). Sopubia scabra 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 560 (1837). Melasma (?) Zeyheri Hook. 
Ie. Pl. t. 255 (1840). Graderia scabra Benth., Lc. 
MossaMEpEs.—A grey-green herb, 2 to scarcely 4 in. high, annual, 
parasitical at the roots of other plants ; primary stem subterranean, 
bright orange in colour ; basal branches opposite ; leaves herbaceous- 
green, membranous; flowers yellow or wine-orange in colour, large 
enough in proportion to the size of the plant; corolla sub-campanulate, 
5-cleft. In sandy moist and bushy places at the river Bero, very 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. end of June and latter part of July 1859. A 
stunted form. No. 5809. 
20. SOPUBIA Hamilton ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 970. 
1. S. decumbens Hiern, sp. n. 
A sparingly hispidulous, decumbent, suffruticose herb, woody 
at the base, 3 to 6 in. high ; rootstock perennial, woody, throwing 
out long wiry fibres ; stems numerous, much branched near the 
base, mostly decumbent; branches leafy below, ascending or 
erect, not scabrid ; leaves linear and simple or with two lateral 
linear lobes, + to ? in, long, opposite; pedicels nearly glabrous, 
somewhat spreading at least at the base, ranging up to # in. long, 
the upper ones shorter, bibracteate above the middle ; flower-buds 
3 in. long, obovoid; calyx ;, in. long, 5-cleft, nearly glabrous 
outside except the densely ciliolate lobes; the lobes deltoid or 
rather narrower, pointed, ;4, in. long; corolla reddish purple, 
about 2 in. in diameter when fully expanded, stamens 4, scarcely 
didynamous; anthers connivent, 2-celled, one cell very small ; 
style long; capsule about + in. long, scarcely as long as the 
persistent calyx. 
Hvitita.—In swampy bushy places near Lopollo; fl. and fr. Dee. 
1859. No. 5839. 
2. S. parviflora Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 65 (1893). 
Punco ANDONGO,—At Sansamanda on the Cuanza ; fl. and fr. April 
and May 1857. No. 5860. At Lombe; fl. and fr. No. 5861. 
I have not seen the type of this species, and therefore the identifica- 
tion is doubtful, but the description agrees. 
3. §, filiformis Hiern, sp. n. 
An annual, erect, slender, scabrid herb, branched like a broom, 
12 to 18 in. high; stem filiform ; leaves filiform or linear, entire, 
scabrid, sessile, # to 2 in. long; flowers axillary, arranged in 
