Aptosimmn.] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). 271 



linear-lanceolate, 1^-2| in. long, H- 2i- lin. broad, acute, scabrid on 

 both surfaces, often with tufts of small leaves in their axils! Flowers 

 subsessile. Calyx-tube very short ; segments broadly oblanceolate, 

 ]• in. long, broadest above the middle, acute, 1-nerved. Corolla about 

 f in. long, the narrowest part of the tube as long as the calyx, sparingly 

 pilose outside ; lobes broadly obovate, subequal. Anthers slightly 

 hairy. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broadly obovate, compressed at 

 the apex, slightly emarginate, pubescent. — Engl. & Gilg in Baum, 

 Ivunene-Samb.-Exped. 361. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; near Ediva, 2900 ft., Baum, 24. German 

 South-west Africa : Dammaraland ; Salem, Lindner ! Otyimbingue, Marloth, 

 1254 ! between Otyikango and Otyimbingue, Schinz, 6 ! 



8. A. Welwitschii, Hiem in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 755. An 

 undershrub branched from the base. Branches decumbent or ascending, 

 4-12 in. long, leafy and densely pubescent above, more or less leafless 

 and subglabrate below, spiny chiefly below ; hairs pale-subfulvous, 

 glandular, spreading ; spines -|-1 in. long, straight. Leaves linear- 

 oblanceolate, 1—1^ in. long, 1 1—2 lin. broad, pointed at the apex, much 

 attenuated at the base, subscabrid, densely glandular-hairy. Flowers 

 solitary, subsessile. Bracts 1|— 3 lin. long, linear, hairy. Calyx -J- i 

 in. long, deeply toothed'; teeth linear, hairy outside, glabrous inside. 

 Corolla §-f in. long, membranous, veined, glandular-hairy outside. 

 Fertile anthers 2, somewhat hispid or ciliate. Style nearly | in. long. 

 Capsule 2 lin. long, shortly hairy. Young seeds papillose. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossiimedes, by the River Maiombo at A Maiombo, 

 Welwitsch, 5816 ! 



9. A. angustifolium, Weber <£• Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2" te 

 sir. hi. 896. An undershrub everywhere shortly glandular-pilose, 

 branched near the base; branches 5 or 6, 8-10 in. high, l^-li lin. 

 thick, erect. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear, lf-2 in. long, 

 ltj lin. broad, narrowed to the base, glandular-pilose on both sides, 

 furnished on the margins and on the underside of the midrib with short 

 conical hairs ; midrib persistent, forming a slender thorn 6-7t>- lin. 

 long. Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx only 1^-2 lin. long ; segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute, broadest at the base, glandular-pilose on 

 both sides. Corolla 8^-12 lin. long, sparingly furnished with cilia and 

 glandular hairs ; lobes rounded-oval, somewhat unequal, 2-2^ lin. 

 broad. Anthers ciliate. Capsule 2 lin. long, pilose. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; between Korekas 

 Fley and Anigab, Belck, 26; Liideritz, 190. 



10. A. Schinzii, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me sir., iii. 901. 

 An undershrub with a creeping few-branched stem ; branches long and 

 very short ; long branches 6 in. long, with longer more distant leaves, 

 ascending ; short branches densely covered with shorter leaves. Leaves 

 of the long branches linear-lanceolate, about 2| in. long and 2^ lin. 

 broad, almost horizontal ; midrib persistent, spinescent. Flowers 



