Mannlea.] xcn. scrophulariacEjE (hemsley and skan). 299 



1. M. angolensis, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 478. An erect 

 annual or biennial herb 1-|— 2-| ft. high; root thick, sometimes more 

 or less turnip-shaped ; stem stout, simple, sparingly and minutely 

 glandular-puberulous, terete, scantily leafy. Radical leaves 1-1^ in. 

 long, 3-4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, much at- 

 tenuated at the base, obscurely and remotely crenate-serrate, sparingly 

 and minutely glandular-puberulous, forming a loose rosette ; cauline 

 leaves distant, alternate, similar to the radical leaves. Thyrsus few- 

 branched, 1-1-| ft- long; cymes distant, shortly stalked; flowers 

 crowded, sessile. Calyx f -1 lin. long, dusky orange- coloured ; seg- 

 ments spathulate-linear, much thickened at the apex, obtuse, ciliate. 

 Corolla 2f-3 lin. long, orange-coloured, nearly glabrous, subringent ; 

 tube somewhat inflated on the posticous side at the apex; limb If lin. 

 in diameter ; lobes oblong, scarcely f lin. long, less than | lin. broad, 

 subequal. Stamens included ; lower anthers perfect, oblong, the upper 

 reniform, imperfect, very much smaller than the lower. Style filiform, 

 2} y lin. lon°\ Capsule 1 lin. long, broadly ovoid. — Nemia angolensis, 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 757. 



lower Guinea. Ansola : Huilla, Welwitseh, 5836 ! nenr Lopollo, WelwitscJi, 

 5835! 



17. SUTERA, Roth, Bot. Bemerk. 172, not of Nov. PI. Sp. 291. 



Calyx usually 5-partite, sometimes 5-lobed ; segments or lobes linear, 

 lanceolate or rarely ovate, imbricate, not membranous. Corolla decidu- 

 ous, tubular ; tube shorter or much longer than the calyx, usually 

 slender, cylindric below or funnel-shaped, nearly straight or more or 

 less curved towards the apex, gibbous on the upper side near the apex 

 or more or less dilated at the throat or sometimes nearly entirely 

 cylindric ; limb spreading, 5-lobed, more or less regular or 2-lipped ; 

 lobes entire, emarginate or bifid, subequal, imbricate in bud, the 2 

 uppermost outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, affixed to the corolla- 

 tube, more or less exserted or the upper or all of them included ; fila- 

 ments filiform ; anthers all perfect, 1-celled by confluence, reniform. 

 Style filiform, included or exserted, somewhat clavate above ; stigma 

 obtuse. Capsule septicidal ; valves bifid. Seeds many, small, rugose. — 

 Glabrous, pubescent, sometimes viscid herbs, undershrubs or small shrubs 

 often drying blackish. Leaves mostly opposite, dentate, incised or 

 dissected, rarely entire. Bracts usually similar to the leaves, free 

 from the pedicels. Flowers axillary or in terminal racemes or in 

 simple or compound cymes or spikes ; pedicels ebracteolate or rarely 

 bracteolate. — Chcenostoma, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 374, 

 and in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 945. Lyperia, Benth. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 945. 

 Camptoloma, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 430, and in Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PL ii. 960. Urbania, Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 10. 



Species 123, most numerous in South Africa ; 1 in the Canary Islands. 



