AptOSimum.] XCII. SCROPHULARIACEiE (hemsley and skan). 269' 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Nets, 253, 



Ozongombo, Rautanen, 426. 



3. A. lineare, Marl. & Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 250. A dwarf 

 branched caespitose undershrub ; branches up to 6 in. long, often very 

 short, densely leafy. Leaves linear, 2-4 in. long, H-3 lin. broad, acute, 

 pubescent and usually conspicuously ciliate at the base : pubescence 

 sometimes ferruginous ; midribs rigid, thick, persistent and spinescent. 

 Flowers sessile. Bracts narrowly linear, 2-J- lin. long. Calyx-segments 

 ] in. long, linear, acute, ciliate and sparingly glandular-pubescent, 

 prominently 1-nerved. Corolla about f in. long, blue, pilose outside ;. 

 lobes broadly obovate, subequal. Lower pair of stamens two-thirds as 

 long as the corolla ; anthers pilose. Style as long as the corolla-tube. 

 Capsule about 1 lin. shorter than the calyx, broadly obovate, emarginate, 

 compressed at the apex, sparingly pubescent, reticulate. Seeds black,, 

 scrobiculate. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 755, and in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 129. A. Randii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1899, 171, and 

 1900, 467. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; base of Serra de Montes Negros,, 

 Welwitsch, 5817 ! Caldeira do Inferno, Welwiisch, 5818 ! German Soutb-west 

 Africa: Dammaraland, Sehinz, 36! Lindner! Hereroland; Usakos, Marloth , 

 1241 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Matabeleland ; Bulawayo, Son. 

 Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 115 ! Gardner, 63 ! Rand, 180! and without precise locality 

 Elliott ! North Kalahari Desert : near T'Klakane Pits, Lugard, 230 ! South 

 African Gold Fields, Baines ! 



Also in South Africa. 



Var. ciliatum, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™e se r., iii. 897. Branches longer,. 

 erect, very corky in the lower part. Leaves linear, narrowed towards the base 

 long-ciliate on the margins from the base to the middle. Spines stronger, 10-12 lin, 

 long, J lin. thick at the base. Capsule 2— 2£ lin. long, shortly hairy. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Liideritz, 104, 7a 

 Kels, 254. Otyowazondu, Rautanen. 



Also in South Africa. 



Var. acaide, Weber, I.e. 898. Primary axis very short (scarcely 5 lin. long). 

 Leaves glabrous. Corolla tomentose- ciliate outside ; narrow lower part of the tube- 

 2 or 3 times longer than the upper inflated part. Capsule glabrous. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : North Hereroland (Lpingtonia) ; 

 Tscheweb, Sehinz, 515. 



Var. angolense, Weber, I.e. 898. Branches longer (about 6 in. long) ; internodes 

 2J-5 lin. long. Leaves linear, very shortly pilose, about 3 in. long, 2 lin. broad. 

 Bracts equalling the calyx-segments. Calyx-segments glandular inside. Corolla 

 sparingly ciliate outside. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Newton. 



I have seen no specimens of the above varieties. 



4. A. glandulosum, Weber <L Sehinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me 

 ser. iii. 899. A glandular-pubescent branched undershrub, about 3 in. 

 high. Leaves narrowly linear, up to 2|- in. long, acute, croAvded so as 

 to conceal the stem, conduplicate in the dried state, densely and 

 shortly glandular-pubescent, somewhat scabrid ; lower part of mid- 

 rib persistent and spinescent. Flowers solitary, or rarely 2 together, 



