272 xcn. scrophulariace^: (hemsley and skan). [Aptosimum~ 



several, in shortly pedunculate clichasia in the axils of the leaves of the 

 longer branches. Calyx 3| lin. long, covered with cilia-like and several- 

 celled conical hairs inside and outside, glandular-hairy towards the ends- 

 of the segments ; tube 1^ lin. long ; segments twice as long as the tube, 

 c-radualiy narrowed from the base to the apex, shortly mucronate. 

 Corolla 10-12 lin. long, ciliate outside. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Nels, 257. 



11. A. suberosum, Weber in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me ser. iii. 904. A 

 dwarf very much branched undershrub forming a tuft about 8 in. in 

 diarn. ; branches creeping about \ in. in diam. at the base, surrounded 

 by a clef t corky layer lf-2 lin. thick. Leaves sessile, imbricate, suc- 

 culent, lanceolate, 6— 7J lin. long, 1-2^- lin. broad, glabrous, white on 

 the margin, with a persistent and finally corky base ; midrib strongly 

 prominent on the underside. Flowers wanting in the specimen 

 described. Calyx in the fruiting stage about 3^ lin. long, glabrous ;, 

 tube 11 lin. long ; segments twice as long as the tube. Capsule 

 obovoid, about 2| lin. long, glabrous. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; south of the 

 Etosapfanne, Dinter, 749. 



12. A. decumbens, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 184. 

 Branches decumbent, terete, densely and shortly glandular-pubescent, 

 glabrescent at the base, leafy. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, 

 lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 2-3i| lin. 

 broad, usually rather crowded, broadest at or above the middle, obtuse 

 or rarely acute, shortly glandular-pubescent, slightly scabrid ; midrib 

 prominent on the underside, not persistent. Flowers axillary, usually 

 solitary, sometimes 2 or more together, very shortly pedunculate. 

 Bracts narrowly linear, \ in. long, acute, pubescent. Calyx glandular- 

 pubescent ; tube less than 1 lin. long ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 faintly 1 -nerved. Corolla purple, about f in. long, densely and shortly 

 glandular-puberulous outside ; lobes broadly obovate, subequal, about 

 2h lin. in diam. Anthers with a tuft of long hairs at the apex. Style 

 as long as the corolla-tube. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broadly 

 obovate, slightly emarginate, puberulous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 755, partly; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 361. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; near Lopollo towards Empalanca, Wel- 

 witsch, 5803 ! by the Kubango River, near Kalolo, 3600 ft., JBavm, 432 ! German 

 South-west Africa: Hereroland; Luderitz. Ambolaud; Olukonda, Schinz, 4; 

 Dammaraland, Ee,n ! 



IVTozamb. Sist. British Central Africa : Rhodesia; Fanda-ma-Tenka, Holuh f 

 Victoria Falls, Allen, 105! Ngamiland; Okavango Valley, 3000 ft., Lugard, 

 266! 



13. A. molle, Skan. A densely glandular-pilose undershrub; 

 stems decumbent, simple or branched, up to 18 in. long, densely covered 

 with rather long slender white glandular hairs; internodes ^-J in. 

 long. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, 1-1 i- in. long, 2|-3| lin. broad, 

 broadest just below the middle, narrowed gradually and slightly from 

 above the middle to the apex, obtuse and rounded at the apex or some- 



