304 xcn. scnoPHULARiACEiE (hemsley and skan). [Suteru. 



Also in extratropical Transvaal and Swaziland. 



7. S. blantyrensis, Skan. A compact erect densely glandular 

 puberulous undershrub about 1^ ft. high, freely branched from the 

 base ; branches 1-1| lin- in diam. at the base, terete. Leaves 7-10 lin. 

 long, 3i-6 lin. broad, decreasing in size upwards, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, much attenuated at the base, irregularly dentate, 

 incised-dentate or pinnatifid ; segments obtuse, sometimes denticulate ; 

 petiole 2-4 lin. long. Flowers in lax terminal racemose inflorescences 

 6-9 in. long; pedicels |-1 in. long, erect-spreading, usually slightly 

 curved. Calyx lf-2 lin. long, densely glandular-puberulous ; segments 

 about i lin. broad, linear-oblong, slightly unequal, scarcely acute, thick. 

 Corolla 3 lin. long, subinfundibuliform, glandular-puberulous outside ; 

 tube | lin. broad at the base, slightly curved ; limb 2-lipped ; lobes f lin. 

 long and broad, rounded. Stamens and style included. Capsule 2|-2| 

 lin. long, ellipsoid-ovoid, slightly atttenuated at the apex, obtuse, 

 lepidote-puberulous. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Buchanan! 

 and in Herb. Wood., 6630 ! Angoniland, Sharjoe, 96 ! 



8. S. corymbosa, Hiern in Gat. Afr. PI. Welio. i. 757. A densely 

 o-landular-pilo.se herb 1-2 ft. high ; branches herbaceous, ascending, 

 41— 8 in. long; internodes 5-7| lin. long. Leaves h-\\ in. long and 

 broad, suborbicular, cordate at the base, obtuse or subacute, crenate ; 

 petiole 5-10 lin. long. Inflorescence a 3-5-flowerecl cyme 1 J-2 in. 

 long; pedicels 5-10 lin. long, slender ; bracteoles 1-2 lin. long, linear. 

 Calyx-segments 4|-5 lin. long, 1-1^ lin. broad in the upper part, oblong- 

 spathulate or narrowly oblong, obtuse. Corolla white, sparingly hairy 

 outside ; tube 6 lin. long, cylinclric, hairy inside about the throat ; lobes 

 semi-oblong, 1-1^ lin. long, obtuse. Stamens included. Capsule 5 lin. 

 long, narrowly ovoid, beaked ; beak 1-1^ lin. long. — Camptoloma rotun- 

 difolium, Benth. in DC. Proclr. x. 431. Ghamostoma corymbosum, 

 Marloth & Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 253. Lyperia corymbosa, N. E. 

 Brown in Kew Bulletin, 1896, 163. 



l OW er Guinea. Angola : Elephants Bay, Curror, 13 ! German South-west 

 Africa : Hereroland ; in sandy shady places near Daviep, 1150 ft., Marloth, 1461 ! 



9. S. Welwitschii, Skan. An erect or ascending branched 

 herb, 1-2 ft. high, sparingly covered almost everywhere with very short 

 glandular hairs, stem and branches herbaceous ; branches ascending, 

 4-8 in. long ; internodes up to 2 in. long. Leaves alternate or some- 

 times subopposite, broadly ovate to orbicular, the largest 2 in. in diam., 

 dentate-serrate, rarely almost entire, obtuse, rounded, truncate, or slightly 

 cuneate at the base, sometimes sliyhtly cordate ; petiole f-1^ in. long. 

 Flowers axillary and solitary, or the uppermost in 2- or 3-flowered cymes 

 about H in. long; pedicels J-l| in. long ; bracteoles linear, about 1 lin. 

 long. Calyx 4 lin. long, glandular-pubescent ; segments oblong, obtuse, 

 about 1 lin. broad, ciliate. Corolla 7| lin. long, white to yellow, with 

 purple veins, violet on the tube, sparingly hairy on the limb outside; 

 tube oh lin. long, somewhat funnel-shaped, 1 lin. broad at the base, 



