Lobelia.] lxxv. CAMrANULACE.E (hemsley). 469 



shorter than the leaves. Calyx-tube globose, bristly glandular ; lobes 

 lanceolate, bristly on the back. Filaments free at the base ; the two 

 lower anthers bearded at the tip. Capsule globose, bristly, 5-ribbed. 

 Description from Richard. 



srUe Land. Chire, Quartin Dillon. 



13. Zi. ezllis, HocJist. in Bich. Fl. Ahijss. ii. p. 7. A dwarf gla- 

 brous slightly branched fleshy annual, with swollen fistular stems only 

 a few inches high. Leaves veiy small, alternate, sessile, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, with one or two very sharp teeth on each side. Flowers small, 

 terminating the slender branches. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate acute, 

 hooked at the tip, coarsely ciliate on the margin, about one- third the 

 length of the corolla-tube. Lobes of the upper lip of the corolla very 

 acuminate and acute, central lobe of the lower lip elongate lanceolate, 

 lateral lobes nearly triangular. — Description mainly from Richard, 1. c. 



ITile Zianct. Abyssinia, in wet meadows in the valley of the Tacazze, Schimper! 



14. Zi. seneg'alensis, A. DC. Prudr. vii. p. 372. A glabrous erect 

 annual, about a foot high, branching from the base. Stems rather 

 stout, obscurely winged. Leaves alternate sessile linear-oblong ob- 

 tuse entire or slightly toothed, somewhat fleshy with immersed 

 venation, 1-lJ in. long. Flowers about 6 lines long, in terminal 

 bracteate racemes ; peduncles about as long as the bracts but length- 

 ening considerably as the fi-uit matures. Calyx-lobes 1 line long, 

 linear- subulate, subacute. Upper lip of the corolla of two linear lobes, 

 lower lip broadly 3-lobed. Filaments united to the base ; the 3 upper 

 anthers prominently hairy, 2 lower bearded at the tip. — Del. Ic. Sel. 

 V. t. 10. L. triquetra, Sieb., not of Linnaeus. 



Upper Culnea. Senegal, Skber! 



In Kew Herbarium there is a Lohdia without flowers collected by Barter, Niger 

 Exped. No. 707, which should probably be referred hither. It differs only, so far as 

 the material goes, in having acute leaves with distant more conspicuous callous or 

 mucronate teeth. 



15. Z«. nuda, Hemsl. An erect branching annual abont a foot 

 high, the radical leaves and base of the stems sparingly hirsute ; 

 branches terete, with a few linear obtuse entire leaves from 1-2 in. 

 long. Radical leaves oblong or obovate-spathulate, crenate, narrowed 

 into a petiole, exceeding an inch in length. Flowers less than 6 lines 

 long in loose terminal minutely bracteate racemes, on slender pedicels 

 6-9 lines long. Calyx glabrous; lobes nearly half as long as the 

 corolla and equalling the tube. Anthers slightly hairy on, the back, the 

 two lower ones only bearded at the tip. Capsula oblong-cylindrical. 



Mozaxnb. Distr. Highlands of Batuka country, Kirk f 



This belongs to the Erimis section and will probably turn out to bo identical with 

 Kome South African species. It docs not agree with any of the species described by 

 Klotzsch. 



16. Zi. natalensls, A. DC. Prat?, vii. p. 369. A rambling branched 

 glabrous or slightly haiiy annual (?) species with terete or slightly 

 angular branches rising tc a height of a foot or more and terminating 



