282 XCII. SCROPHULARIACE.E (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Celsia. 



times obscurely few-toothed in the broadest part ; pedicels 9-10 lin. 

 long, ascending. Calyx 3^ lin. long ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, 

 | lin. broad. Corolla yellow, f-f in. in diam. Capsule (immature) 

 subglobose, glabrous, much shorter than the calyx. — Benth. in DC. 

 Prodi-, x. 246, partly; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. Ill, partly? Engh 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Air. 375, partly. 



Nile land. Abyssinia : Samen, Biippel, and without precise locality, 

 Schimper, 521 ! 



2. C. valeriaxisefolia, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 112. A 

 slender biennial, l|-3 ft. high, glabrous or more or less glandular- 

 hairy ; stem erect, branched, herbaceous. Leaves interruptedly pinnate 

 or sometimes simple, up to 5 in. long ; pinnate leaves 4-5 in. long ; 

 terminal leaflet about 2 in. long and 1^ in. broad, ovate or elliptic, 

 irregularly crenate-dentate ; lateral leaflets ^-1 in. long, crenate- 

 dentate, sessile with a broad base or shortly stalked and cuneate at the 

 base ; simple leaves elliptic or oblong, less than 1 in. long, sessile or 

 shortly petiolate, more or less toothed. Eaceme simple or with ascend- 

 ing branches; bracts cordate at the base, acuminate, 2J-3 lin. long, 

 obscurely toothed; pedicels \-\ in. long, glandular-hairy. Calyx 

 2^-3 lin. long, minutely glandular-hairy outside ; segments oblong- 

 lanceolate or elliptic, J- f lin. broad, acute. Corolla yellow, 6-7 lin. in 

 diam. Filaments all bearded ; anthers of the shorter stamens reniform, 

 transverse, and of the longer somewhat oblique. Capsule subglobose., 

 3^-4 lin. long. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376. C. interrupta, 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 246, partly; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. Ill, 

 partly? Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 375, partly, not of Fresen. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Tigre ; Shireli, Petit ; on the Jogarti, Sclrimper, 

 514 ! near Memsach, Quartin-Dillon ; Besa, 5500 ft., Schimper, 94 ! 



3. C. peduraculosa, Steud. & Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 245. A slender divaricately branched scantily-leaved undershrub ; 

 branches minutely puberulous. Leaves simple, or rarely with 1 or 2 

 minute segments on the petiole just below the blade, petiolate except a 

 few sessile small entire upper ones, minutely puberulous chiefly on the 

 nerves on the underside, crenate or irregularly crenate-dentate, narrowly 

 ovate to oblong, |— If in. long, obtuse or acute. Panicle lax, usually 

 much branched ; bracts 1§-2|- lin. long, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, slightly attenuated at the base, glabrous or with a few minute 

 hairs ; pedicels |— 1 in. long, glabrous or nearly so. Calyx 1 J-lA- lin. 

 long, glabrous or subglabrous; segments oblong-lanceolate or oblong,acute. 

 Corolla about 7 lin. in diam., yellow. Capsule h lin. longer than the 

 calyx, ovoid, glabrous. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 111. C interrupta, 

 var. pedunculosa, Vatke in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 375, partly. 



Wile land. Eritrea: Dongherghera ; Mount Bizen, 6560 ft., Schweinfurth Sf 

 -&w<z, 1867 ! Hamasen; Sasaga, Steudner, 814. Abyssinia: Tigre; Mount Sema- 

 yata, Schimper, 222 ! Abba-Matha, Schimper, 500 ! 



Var. pubescens, Skan. Leaves often (always ?) pinnate, up to 3i in. long, witb 

 a large terminal leaflet and 1-3 distant pairs of small shortly stalked lateral ones, 



