772 Lxxxix. scROPHULARiACE.E. [Velvitsici 



with violet-coloured veins ; capsule loculicidal, about ^ in. long, 

 oval, pointed, somewhat compressed ; style nearly i in. long, 

 glabrous; seeds ^^ in. long. 



HuiLLA. — In moist thickets near Ohai towards Lopollo, at an eleva- 

 tion of ,5000 ft., sparingly ; fr. and a few fl. beginning of May 1860. 

 No. 1263. 



19. BOPUSIA Presl, Bot. Bemerk. p. 91 (1844). 



Gh-aderia Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 521 (1846) ; Benth. & Hook. 

 f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 970. 



1. B. scabra Presl, I.e. 



Gerardia scabra L. f. Suppl. PI. p. 279 (1781). Sopuhia scabra 

 Q. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 560 (1837). Melasma (?) Zeyheri Hook. 

 Ic. PI. t. 255 (1840). Graderia scabra Benth., I.e. 



MossAMEDES. — 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 wdne-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, suiFruticose 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 f in. long, 

 the upper ones shorter, bibracteate above the middle ; flower-buds 

 § in. long, obovoid ; calyx ^^ in. long, 5-cleft, nearly glabrous 

 outside except the densely ciliolate lobes; the lobes deltoid oi' 

 rather narrower, pointed, J^ in. long; corolla reddish purple, 

 about f in. in diameter when fully expanded, stamens 4, scarcely 

 didynamous ; anthers connivent, 2-celled, one cell very small ; 

 style long ; capsule about I in. long, scarcely as long as the 

 persistent calyx. 



HuiLLA. — In swampy bushy places near Lopollo : fl. and fr. Dec. 

 1859. No. 5839. 



2. S. parviflora Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 65 (1893). 



FuNGO 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. S. filiformis Hiern, sp. n. 



An annual, erect, slender, scabrid herb, branched like a broom, 

 12 to 18 in. high ; stem filifoi-m ; leaves filiform or linear, entire, 

 scabrid, sessile, f to 2 in. long ; floweis axillary, arranged in 



