Peliostomum.'] xcn. scrophulauiace^: (hemsley and skan). 275 



Fleck, 473 ; mouth of the Tsoachaub (Swakop) River, Dinter, 73 ; Nefo, 258 ; 

 Ozongombo, Rmdanen, 427. 

 Also in South Africa. 



2. P. Lugardae, F. E. Brown MSS. An erect perennial herb 

 1-1-i ft. high, branching from the base upwards, minutely scaberulous 

 on the green parts. Leaves ascending or spreading, linear, up to lj 

 in. long, ^-1 lin. broad, subacute, tapering at the base into a short 

 petiole. Flowers axillary along the terminal parts of the branches. 

 Peduncles f-1 lin. long. Calyx-segments 2|— 3 lin. long, \ lin. broad, 

 narrowly linear, acute. Corolla very sparsely and minutely hairy out- 

 side, bluish-mauve with a darker spot at the base of each lobe and 

 veined with mauve on a white ground in the throat (Lugard) ; tube 4i 

 lin. long, slightly curved, funnel-shaped, about 2 lin. in diam. at the 

 mouth ; constricted basal part much shorter than the calyx ; limb 

 oblique ; lobes suborbicular, the lower about 2 lin. long and broad, the 

 others about L| lin. in diam. Filaments glabrous ; anthers minutely 

 pubescent. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 2|— 2| lin. long, slightly longer than 

 the calyx, subobtuse. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Ngarniland; Kwebe Hills, 3400 ft.. 

 Mrs. Lv.gard, 124 ! 



3. ANTICHARIS, Endl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 928. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments narrow, subvalvate. Corolla-tube dilated 

 above ; limb spreading ; lobes 5, flat, subequal, rounded, the two 

 posticous lobes outside. Stamens 2, anticous ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers subtransverse, glabrous or sparingly pilose, 1 -celled by con- 

 fluence, horse-shoe- or half-moon-shaped before dehiscence, at length 

 flattened out ; staminodes 0. Style filiform, subclavate at the apex ; 

 stigma obtuse, entire or emarginate. Capsule ovate or oblong, sub- 

 acuminate, 2-furrowed, loculicidal and septicidal ; valves bent inwards 

 at the margins exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds numerous, 

 small, oblong or obovoid, striate ; embryo straight ; cotyledons ovate. 

 — Dwarf erect herbs with glandular pubescence. Leaves entire. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, often with 2 small bracts. — 

 Meisarrkena, P. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 63, name only. Doralcmthera, 

 Benth. in Endl. Gen. 685. Gerardiopsis, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359, 

 and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 507. Distemon, Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex 

 Aschers. in Monatsber. Akacl. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, 880. 



Species 9, 8 in Tropical Africa, 2 of which extend to Arabia and Western India, 

 and 1 in South Africa. 

 Anthers free. 



Bracts inserted above the middle of the peduncle ; 

 basal lobes of the anthers acuminate ; leaves 

 linear, acuminate . . . . . . 1. A. linearis. 



Bracts inserted at or below the middle of the peduncle ; 

 basal lobes of the anthers obtuse ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate to oblong or elliptic. 

 Leaves often narrow, rather acute ; capsule twice 



as lonsr as the calvx . . . . 2. A. arabica. 



