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gekielt, grannenartig zugespitzt, + 4 mm lang. Die Kronröhre misst 5 

 bis 6 mm ; die eiförmig lanzettlichen bis eiförmigen, stumpfen oder spitzen 

 Kronlappen sind + öVs mm lang und 2^4 bis 3 mm breit. Die Staubfäden 

 haben eine Länge von + 3 mm (bei den indischen Exemplaren von 

 1 V4 mm) ; die von einem sehr kleinen apikalen Brownschen Körper 

 gekrönten Staubbeutel messen 1 7^ bis 1 V2 bis 2 mm (bei den ind. Exempl. 

 bis 1 mm). Der + 5 mm (bei der ind. Pflanze 3V2 mm) lange Griffel 

 entbehrt eines Papillen wulstes und besitzt eine kopfig gedrungene Narbe, 



West-Af rika : Angola, Uilla, Welwitsch 1521, bl. und fr. I. ; längs 

 des Uumpata Flusses, Welwitsch 1522, bl. und fr. IV. ; am Kulei, auf 

 Moosboden, zwischen Gras, 1300 m, Baum 870, bl. 27, IV. 



Ostindien : Himalaya, in graminosis, 155 bis 2100 m, Mandal, Garhwal, 

 Eägeivorlh; Jakpho 2300 m, C. B. Clarke; Nepal, Wallich; Khasia Mts., 

 Kollong Rock, 1700 m, G. B. Clarhe. 



Hiern begleitet die Welwitschischen Pflanzen mit nachstehender Notiz : 

 Huilla. — • A parasitical, filiform, erect, 2-to 6-üowered herb; habit 

 of Centaurium ; stem simple or sparingly branched, quadrangular ; leaves 

 ovate-acuminate, connate at the base, rather rigid, distant, opposite; 

 flowers yellow ; calyx deeply lobed ; the Segments ovate-lanceolate ; coroUa- 

 lobes lanceolate ; stamens inserted between the coroUa-lobes, exserted ; 

 filaments in some flowers nearly straight, not at aU curved below the 

 anthers; anthers variable in shape, sometimes long-spathulate or oblong- 

 claviculate and longer than the style, in other cases shortty spathulate, 

 almost shorter than the style and hollowed out with one side as it were arched. 

 Parasitical among grasses and on clumps of Cyperaceae along the banks 

 of the Monino river in spongy or swampy places; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. 

 No. 1521. An annual, erect, lovely, little herb, scarcely high; habit 

 almost of Curtia tenella Cham. ; stems fihform, mostly shortly beut at the 

 base, promptly straightening, simple or with one brauch above the middle 

 or trichotomous ; branches ascending 1-to 3-flowered; leaves minute, 

 7x2^0 78 iwch. long, sub-connate atthe base, ovate-lanceolate, keeled, subulate at 

 the apex, squamiform so that the stem seems partly leafless, adpressed to 

 the stem; internodes about 1 inch long; cymes 1-to 16-flowered; flowers 

 ebracteolate, yellow, mostly pentamerous, 4-to 6-merous ; 5- and 6-merous- 

 flowers Seen on the same specimen ; corolla salver-shaped ; the tube sweUed 

 at the base , constricted below the limb ; the lobes ovate rather obtuse ; 

 stamens exserted; anthers sub-sagittate at the base without glands at the 

 apex or with very sraall glands, but present only on one or two of them, 

 at length spirally twisted; style straight, flliform, exceeding the stamens; 

 Stigma globose-caespitate, pileiform, widely hollowed at the base and there 

 o})tusely bilobed ; capsule 2-celled ; placentation free, 4-lobed ; seeds oblong- 

 .snb([ua(h-ate, various in shape, when not quite rii)e foveolate. Parasitic 



