Otiophoi'aj LXix. rubiace^. 499 



43. OTIOPHORA Zuccar. ; Benth. cV Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 137. 

 1. 0. scabra Zuccar. in Abh. Akad. Muench. i. p. 316 (1832). 

 HuiLLA. — An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; stems and branches 



numerous, erect or ascending, sub-cylindrical below, sub-compressed 

 above ; branches and leaves hairy, opposite, the latter at the same time 

 with other leaves fasciculate in their axils, lanceolate, deep-green above, 

 turning paHid beneath, with raised venation ; stipules connecting the 

 petioles, 4- to 6-setose ; flowers cymulose-paniculate or corymbose, 

 white, scarcely bracteolate ; calyx-tube adhering to the ovary, the 

 limb 5-cleft, the segments very unequal, one much larger than the rest 

 and foliaceous, erect, persistent ; corolla salver-shaped, milk-white ; the 

 tube straight, but little dilated towards the throat, hairy inside ; the 

 limb-segments 5, ovate, spreading in a stellate manner ; the throat 

 very densely bearded with white hairs ; stamens 5, inserted below the 

 corolla-throat, included ; anthers straight, linear, concealed amongst 

 the hairs of the beard of the corolla-throat ; ovary inferior, sub- 

 compressed, 2-celled, crowned with a thin disk ; ovules solitary in the 

 cells, rather fleshy ; style filiform, exserted ; stigma bilobed ; the lobes 

 spreading horizontally, oblong, turning fuscous ; capsule turbinate, 

 somewhat compressed, topped by the calyx-teeth, 2-celled, bluntl" 

 beaked in the centre of the apex. In the drier thickets near Lopollo 

 and around the lake of Ivantala in wooded situations in the direction 

 of Quilengues, abundant ; fl. and young fr. March 1860. No. 5329. 

 A herb, suffrutescent at the base, scarcely 2 ft. high, branched from 

 the base, stems angular, pilose, atro-purpureous, patently branched ; 

 flowers azure-blue, sessile, arranged in terminal spikes ; calyx investing 

 the ovary ; the limb 5-cleft, 4 of them very small, ciliolate-glandular, 

 the fifth much larger, foliaceous ; corolla-tube long, slender ; the limb- 

 segments 5, valvate in the bud, reflexed in the open flower ; stamens 5, 

 exserted, on long filaments ; style filiform, deeply bifid or rather divided 

 into 2 elongated linear-clavate stigmas. In sandy thickets about 

 Lopollo and Humpata ; fl. Dec. 185'J ; fr. Jan. 1860. No. 5330. At 

 Ferrao da Sola ; fl. and fr. beginning of April 1860. No. 5331- At 

 Humpata ; fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 5336. 



The flowers are dimorphic ; our specimens are not quite so pubescent 

 or scabrid on the branchlets as in the type, and they are sometimes 

 bifariously hairy on the branches. 



44. ANTHOSPERMUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 140. 



1. A. pachyrrhizum Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 229. 

 A. hirsidum A. Kick. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 34G (1847), non DO. ; 



Engl. Hochgebii-gsfl. p. 401 (1892). 



HuiLLA. — A herb ; root thick, succulent, whitish, rather fleshy, 4 to 

 7 in. long ; leaves rigid, patent ; flowers pentamerous, rarely hexa- 

 merous, axillary, clustered ; corolla campanulate, whitish-yellow ; the 

 lobes of the limb ovate, acuminate. On plains and in neglected fields, 

 near Lopollo, abundant ; female fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1869. No. 5338. 

 At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 'l859. No. 5337- 



Engler, loc. cit., retains A. Richard's name of this species, and thereby 

 implicitly rejects that of De Candolle ; the latter name, however, 

 properly stands for the plant so named and characterized by Cruse, 

 Rub. Cap. p. 8 (1825). 



2. A. ternatum Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect trutico.se herb, 1 4 ft. high or more ; branches often 



