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insertion of the stamens and minutely pubescent in the throat and 
around the mouth of the tube within; tube 7-9 lin. long, tubular- 
infundifuliform, about 2} lin. in diam. at the top; limb speading, 
8-9 lin. in diam. ; lobes subequal, 34-4 lin. long and broad, very 
obtuse or slightly emarginate. Stamens included, about 3 lin. long; 
filaments glabrous; anther-cells subequal, both of them spurred 
and bearded at the base only. Style as long as the stamens, fili- 
form, glabrous ; stigma unequally 2-lobed ; lobes with incurved 
sides, so that each of them is somewhat obliquely funnel-shaped. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,400 ft. Lugard, \\4; Mrs. Lugard, 107 
Allied to T. alata, Boj., but differs in having much smaller 
flowers, which are entirely orange-yellow, not purple in the tube. 
he anthers are bearded at the base only, not to ? of the way 
up as they are in 7’. alata, and the hairs are different. 
Ruellia prostrata, 7. And. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 89. 
A perennial, growing to 2 ft. high ; flowers mauve. 
Ruellia patula, Jacg. (fide C. B. Clarke). : 
Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., Lugard, 45, 49,68; Mrs. Lugard, 63. 
dwarf perennial, 6-12 in. high ; flowers white (Nos. 45 and 63), 
or purple (Nos. 49 and 68). 
*Ruelliopsis setosa, C. B. Clarke in FI. Trop. Afr. v., p. 59. 
Northern Kalahari Desert near Chukutsa Salt-pan, Lugard, 220; 
near T’Klakane Pits, Lugard, 245. 
Flowers light purple. 
Petalidium latifolium, C. B. Clarke. 
webe, Lugard, 121; plains near Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs. 
Lugard, \2. 
Perennial, 2-3 ft. high, with soft silvery foliage ; upper four lobes 
of the corolla brick-red, lower lobe yellow, according to Mrs. 
Lugard’s drawing. : 
Blepharis diversispina, (. B. Clarke. e 
Near Chanokha, by the Botletle River and also on the Kwebe 
Hills, 3,000-3,300 ft., Mrs, Lugard, 6. 
Perennial ; flowers blue. 
Blepharis serrulata, Ficalho & Mern, 
Kwebe, Lugard, 85. 
Barleria macrostegia, Nees. 
ear Inkonane Pits in the northern Kalahari Desert, about 
3,000 ft., Lugard, 295. 
Grows to 6 in. high ; flowers blue. 
Barleria Mackenii, Hook, f. 
Kwebe, Lugard, 124. 
Flowers blue. 
Barleria spathulata, N. E. Br. Folia petiolata, lanceolata vel 
elliptica, acuta, basi acuta, glabra; axillae spinulosae. Spreae 
pluri orae. Bracteae spathulato-obovatae, obtusissimae vel emar- 
Seis » brevissime mucronu atae, -pruinosae. Sepala 4, 
anceolato-attenuata, acutissima, Coroll subbilabiata, aurantiaco- 
lutea. Stamina 2, 
