

Limvnophila.] xcn. scrophulariace,e (hemsley and skan). 317 



Species about 30. chiefly in the warmer parts of Asia, Australia and Africa. 

 Leaves opposite (rarely the lower verticillate). 



Plant up to 18 in. high ; leaves elliptic-ovate . 1. L. Barteri. 



Plant 1-2 in. high ; leaves lanceolate or snblinear . 2. L. tenera, 



Leaves verticillate (the uppermost sometimes opposite). 

 Flowers sessile or subsessile. 



Flowers axillary, rather distant. 



Leaves with capillary segments ; bracts longer 



than the calyx . . . . . 3. L. ceratophylloides . 



Leaves with narrowly linear segments ; bracts 



shorter than the calyx . . . 4. L. sessiliflora. 



Flowers rather crowded in short terminal spikes . 5. L. dasyantha. 

 Flowers distinctly stalked . . . . 6. L. gratioloides. 



1. L. Barteri, Skan. A gland-dotted herb, everywhere densely 

 pilose or glabrescent below. Stems ascending, 9-18 in. high, sparingly 

 branched. Leaves opposite (rarely in whorls of about 10 near the base, 

 pinnatifid), 4-8 lin. long, 2-4^ lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, serrulate, 

 seniiamplexicaul, obtuse or subacute. Flowers sessile or subsessile, 

 axillary, sometimes forming terminal or short lateral distant-flowered 

 spikes ; bracteoles 2, inserted on the base of the calyx, li lin. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, scarcely acute, pilose. Calyx 1^—1 h lin. long, pilose 

 and sprinkled with yellowish glands; segments unequal, xobacummate 

 or subacute. Corolla apparently yellow, 1 i-lf lin. long; tube f lin. 

 broad. Anther-cells subcontiguous at the base. Style 1 lin. lon^. 

 Capsule ltj lin. long, broadly ovoid, obtuse, glabrous, bisulcate. Seeds 

 globose-ellipsoid, very minutely tubercnlate. 



Tipper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Lomaburu, Scoit -Elliot, 5032 ! Southern 

 Nigeria ?, Barter, 751 ! 



2. L. tenera, Skan. A nearly glabrous erect csespitose apparently 

 annual herb 1-2 in. high ; stems numerous ; branches spreading. 

 Leaves opposite, 1-4 lin. long, lanceolate or sublinear, scarcely acute or 

 subapiculat a , entire, sessile, semiamplexicaul. Flowers axillary and 

 terminal or quasi-terminal, mostly alternate, solitary, about 2 lin. long ; 

 pedicels 1J-3 lin. long ; bracteoles 1-1 A lin. long, subulate. Calyx 14- 

 1J lin. long, 5-partite ; segments subulate, erect or at length reflexed. 

 Corolla whitish to pale blue, slightly glandular-puberulous outside, 

 somewhat pilose about the throat inside. Capsule 4 lin. long. Seeds 

 netted-areolar, irregularly ovoid. — Stemodiacra tenera. Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 759. Stemodia tenera, K. Schum. in Just, Jahresber. 

 xxvi. i. 395. Ambulia tenera, Engl. & Cilg in Warb. Kunene-Samb. 

 Exped. 362, in note. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; swampy places at Lake Qui- 

 binda, Welioitsch, 1241 ! 



3. L. ceratophylloid.es, Skan. A herb with the habit of. a 

 Ceratophyllum, wholly submerged or- the upper part emerged at the 

 time of flowering ; stems about a foot long, slender, glabrous, branched, 

 densely leafy above, leafless below, Leaves f-1 in. long, verticillate, all 



