Stbtera.] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). 30a 



slightly curved, hispidly hairy inside about the throat ; limb slightly 

 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-lobed ; lobes broadly semi-ovate, 1 lin. long; lobes 

 of lower lip sligntly longer and narrower, Stamens included. Style 

 4 lin. long. Capsule glabrous, ovoid, broadly beaked, slightly longer 

 than the calyx. — S. corymbosa, Hiern, var. huillana, Hiern in Oat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 757. Chcenostoma corymbosum, Marloth & Engl., fi 

 huiUanum, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 474. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes; by the River Maiombo, near Pedra 

 do Rei and Pedra de Sal, Welwitsch, 5806 ! 



10. S. dubia, Skan. A shortly glandular-pubescent rather 

 straggling herb, freely branched from the thick woody base ; branches 

 lift, long or more, about 1 lin. thick, ascending, herbaceous, terete, 

 rather leafy; internodes 1A— 2J in. long. Leaves cauline, opposite or 

 the uppermost alternate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, 6-12 lin. long, 5-9 lin. 

 broad, acute, cuneate at the base, coarsely dentate or bidentate ; petioles 

 3-6 lin. long. Inflorescence a short straight terminal few-flowered 

 raceme. Bracts similar to the uppermost leaves, but smaller. Pedicels 

 1-2 lin. long. Bracteoles narrowly linear, shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx-segments linear, 2h lin. long, slightly unequal, narrowed at the 

 apex but scarcely acute, rather thick. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 

 6 lin. long, about § lin. broad, nearly cylindric, pubescent outside, 

 colourless in the dried state ; limb spreading, about 5 lin. in diam., 

 orange-yellow, veined, rather deeply 5-lobed ; lobes suborbicular, nearly 

 equal, 1^ lin. in diam. Stamens included ; anthers subsessile, the lower 

 oblong, the upper subreniform and much smaller than the lower. Style 

 subfusiform, about 1 lin. long. Capsule narrowly ovoid, shorter than 

 the calyx, obtuse, compressed at the apex, glabrous. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Narnaqualand ; Rehoboth, 

 Sc/iinz, 51 ! 



11. S. lyperiaeflora, Skan. A hirsute annual; stems 10 in. long, 

 branched from the base. Leaves 10 in. long, 12 lin. broad, suborbicular, 

 nearly glabrous, irregularly crenate-dentate, ciliate, the lower cordate 

 at the base, the upper rounded ; petioles of the lower leaves 1^ in. long. 

 Flowers in racemes ; bracts similar to the leaves, decreasing in size 

 from below upwards ; pedicels twice as long as the calyx. Sepals linear, 

 obtuse. Corolla 7^ lin. long; tube elongated, quite glabrous, slightly 

 incurved, scarcely dilated at the throat ; limb 5 or 6 times shorter than 

 the tube, 2-lipped. Longer pair of stamens exsertecl, the shorter in- 

 cluded. Style entire, scarcely dilated at the apex. Capsule longer than 

 the calyx, ovoid. Seeds rugulose. — Urbania lypericeflora, Vatke in Oest. 

 Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 10. Chcenostoma I ypericejior 'icm, Wettst. in Engl.it; 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 69. 



Nile Land, Somaliland : Ahl Mountains, 3300 ft., Rildebrandt, 863a. 



12. S. tomentosa, Iliem in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 283. A compact 

 erect densely glandular-pubescent very viscid annual herb, 6-8 in. high, 

 branched from the base. Leaves \-l in. long, 3-9 lin. broad, ovate, 



vol. iv. — SEC 2 x 



