

Limnophila.] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). 319 



Lower Guinea. Angola : River Quiriri, near Sakkemecho, 3900 ft., Baum, 

 729! 



6. L. gratioloides, 7?. Br. Prodr. i. 442. Stems slender, glabrous 

 or minutely glandular-pubescent above, branched or simple, from a few 

 inches to upwards of 2 ft. (usually about (! in.) long. Leaves very 

 variable ; lower submerged ones in wUorls of 6 to many, usually multifid ; 

 upper whorled or sometimes opposite, dentate, incised or multifid ; 

 uppermost opposite, linear to elliptic-oblong. Flowers axillary ; pedicels 

 2-6 lin. long, usually glandular-pubescent; bracteoles setaceous, obtuse, 

 1-1 1 lin. long. Calyx 2-2J lin. long, membranous, glandular-pubescent 

 and gland-dotted ; teeth | lin. long, scarcely acute. Corolla 3-4 lin. 

 long. Anthers coherent in pairs, or those of the shorter stamens alone 

 ■coherent ; cells very shortly stipitate. Style bent near the apex with 

 2 minute auricles at the bend. Capsule somewhat shorter than the 

 calyx, glabrous. — Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 271 ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Bot. 1900, 467. Ambulia gratioloides, Baill. ex Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 357 ; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 401. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 230 ! 



Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurt/i, 2603 ! 

 Gazelle River, at the mouth of the Balir el Arab, Sc/tiveinfurth, 1186! 



Mozamb, Bist. German East Africa : Northern Kinga Mountains; Ussangu, 

 4000 ft., Goetze, 1030! Portuguese East Africa! Quilimane, Scott/ British 

 Central Africa : Rhodesia ; Salisbury, Sand, 518 ! 



Also in Beluchistan, India, China, Malaya and Australia. 



Var. nana, Skan. An erect herb 1—14 in. high. Leaves in crowded whorls of 

 6-8, 2^-3i lin. long, multifid ; segments 4-14 lin. long, narrowly linear, Flowers 

 subterminal. Corolla white. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe ; sandy margin of a small lake 

 near Jeba, Barter, 1709 ! 



23. MONIERA, B. Juss. ex P. Browne, Hist. Jamaic, 269, t. 28, 



fig. 3. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate ; posticous broader ; lateral 

 innermost, often very narrow. Corolla-tube cylindric ; lips spreading ; 

 upper outside, emarginate or 2-lobed ; lower 3-lobed ; lobes all equal 

 or the 2 upper more connate. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 

 anthers approximated in pairs or subdistant ; cells contiguous, distinct, 

 parallel or divergent. Style dilated at the apex, entire or shortly 

 2-lobed ; stigma terminal. Capsule globose or ovoid, bisulcate, 

 loculicidal and usually septicidal ; valves 2 or 4. Seeds many, 

 small. — Erect, diffuse, prostrate or floating herbs, glabrous or more 

 rarely pubescent, often punctate. Leaves opposite, quite entire, den- 

 tate or, in aquatic species, multisect into capillary segments when 

 submerged. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile or pedunculate, or the 

 upper racemose ; peduncles 1- or 2-bracteate or naked. Corolla yellow, 

 pale blue or white. Hypogynous disk in some species many-toothed or 



