280 xcn. SCROPHULARIACE.E (hemsley and skan). [Verbascum. 



there glabrescent. — Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 101 ; Vatke in Oest. 

 Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 9, and in Linnsea, xliii. 305 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 375 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 135. V. 

 somaliense, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 222. 



Nile land. Nubia : near New Dongola, JEhrenberg. Darfur, Purely, 117 ! 

 Eritrea : various localities, Schiveinfurth Sf Siva, 1314 ! 873! 732 ! Hildebrandt, 

 416 ; Rohlfs Sf Stecker. Abyssinia : mountains near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 621 ! 

 Jiija, Schimper, 307. Harre-Sehoa, Schimper, 676; and without precise locality, 

 Schimper, 845 ! Somaliland : Serrut Mountains, near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1408 ! 

 Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole ! Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



V. erianthum, Benth. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 108 (Wajerat, Petit), is 

 probably not distinct from the above species. I have seen no African specimens, 

 and can find nothing in Richard's description by which to satisfactorily distinguish 

 it. 



2. V. Schimperi, Skan. An erect biennial 10-18 in. high; 

 stem simple or divided from the base, obscurely quadrangular, 

 glabrous, or sparingly hairy in places, subglaucous. Leaves gla- 

 brous or with a few short hairs here and there on some of the nerves ; 

 radical and lower cauline leaves up to 4 in. long, interruptedly pin- 

 natiiid, some of the segments very small, the terminal much the 

 largest, elliptic or oblong and irregularly crenate- dentate ; petioles rather 

 long near the base of the stem; becoming shorter above ; upper leaves 

 li-2| in. long, f-1 in. wide, sessile, elliptic, oblong or narrow-ovate, 

 acute, cordate at the base, irregularly crenate-dentate. Raceme up to 

 10 in. long, unbranched ; bracts about | in. long, serrate, acuminate, 

 cordate at the base; flowers solitary, rather distant (usually about |- in. 

 apart), occasionally subopposite ; pedicels \\-2\ lin. long, stout, 

 glandular-pubescent Calyx 2^-3 lin. long at the flowering stage, 

 accrescent, deeply cleft, sparingly glandular-pubescent on the outside ; 

 segments li-2 lin. broad, broadly lanceolate or elliptic, slightly unequal, 

 acute, distinctly and somewhat irregularly serrate. Corolla scarcely 

 longer than the calyx, yellow. Filaments all bearded ; anthers all 

 reniform, and transverse, the uppermost smallest of all. Capsule 

 rather longer than the calyx, broadly ovoicl, — Celsia scrophularicefolia, 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376, partly, not of Hochst. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Debra Tabor, 9200 ft., Schimper, 

 1398! 



5. CELSIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 929. 



Calyx deeply 5-lobed or 5-partite ; lobes imbricate. Corolla rotate, 

 with scarcely any tube ; lobes 5, broad, slightly unequal, the posticous 

 lobe outside. Stamens 4 (the fifth entirely wanting), didynamous or 

 subequal, affixed to the base of the corolla ; filaments of the posticous 

 stamens or of all bearded ; anthers transverse or oblique, 1-cellecl by 

 confluence. Style entire, compressed, dilated at the apex. Capsule 

 globose or ovoid, septicidally 2-valved ; valves usually bifid, with inflexed 

 margins exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds many, very small, 

 transversely rugose, wingless. — Biennial or perennial herbs, with the 

 habit of Verbascum, woolly or glabrous. Leaves alternate, crenate, 



