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basin tubi orientia, 2*5 mm longa, superiora 2 tubo 9 mm supra 

 basin inserta, 1 # 2 mm longa, ilia ad apicem, haec in parte tubo 

 adnata sparse ciliatula. Pistilli glabri germen oblongo-ovoideum, 

 2*5 mm longum, stylus filiformis, 7 mm longus, apice stigmati- 

 gero subclavato. Capsula bivalvis, calyce brevior, valvis 

 brunnescentibus , oblonge ovato-lanceolatis, 5*5 mm longis, 

 longitudinaliter bifidis, sepalis auctis, 6 — 7 mm longis, 

 super at is. Semina minutissima, oblonge ovoideo-elliptica, tenuis- 

 sime transverse ruguloso-furcata , purpurascenti-brunnescentia, 

 ca. 0*6 mm longa. 



Sokotra. Kiistengebiet von Akarhi (Paul ay), 30., 

 31. Janner 1899. 



Lindetibergia Sokotrana Vierhapper. 



L. Sinaica Balfour fil. in Transact. Eoy. Soc. Edinb. 

 XXXI. p. 202 (1888) non Decaisne, FJor. Sin. in Ann. se. nat. 

 ser. II. 2. p. 253 (1834) (pro Bo we a) nee. Bentham, Scroph. 

 Ind. p. 22 (1835). 



Annua, flaccidiuscula. Radix perpendicularis, tortuosa, 

 simplex. Caules singuli vel pauci e radicis capite, simplices vel 

 parum ramosi, erecto-ascendentes vel subprocumbentes, tenues, 

 usque ad 25 em longi, rami a eaulium basi usque ad apieem 

 orientes , his breviores. Axes omnes pilis simplicibus 

 flexuosis, usque 1*5 mm longis, sparsis glanduliferis- 

 que permultis, rectis, dimidio fere brevioribus dense 

 patuleque pilosi. Folia (paria internodiis usque 3'5 em 

 longis a sese remota) lamina plus minus tenui, flacci- 

 diuscula, late-rotundato-ovata, obscure viridi, parte ima excepta 

 crenata vel crenato-lobata, pilis glanduliferis plus minus, imprimis 

 in margin e patule pilosa, maximorum 11*5— 21*5 mm longa, 

 9— 17*5 mm lata, petiolo ad 12'5mm longo, eaulium modo 

 vestito. 



Flores solitarii in unoquoque foliorum superio- 

 rum imis conformium parum minorumpari, hisaequi- 

 longi vel parum longiores, internodiis magnis spicam 

 exactam non formantes, breviter (1—6 mm) pedicellati, pedicellis 

 caulis modo pilosis. Calyx bilabiatus, .4 '5 mm longus, extus 

 tota superficie caulis modo vestitus intus in dentibus et in tubi 

 aervis tantum glauduloso-pilosus, tubus late obconico-cupulae- 

 formis. dentes labii superioris 3 e basi 1*5 mm lata 

 ovato-semiorbiculares, medius marginibus 1*7 mm ca. 

 longis, inferioris 2 triangulari-ovati, 2*2 mm longi. Corolla 

 bilabialis, extus tubi inferiore parte extus intusque glabra excepta 

 sparse, intus imprimis in labio inferiore parte extrajvolvale glabra ex- 

 cepta densius patule subglanduloso-pilosa, in margine glabra, totalis 

 y'5mm longa, tubus 3*5 mm longus, labium superius oblongo- 

 ovatum, 5 mm longum, apice 2-lobum, inferius oblongo-obovatum 

 °'5— 6 mm longum, apice 3-lobum, in loborum-basi volva semi- 



