Moniera.] xcn. scrophulariace^e . (hemsley and skan). 32 1 



winged near the calyx ; bracts 2, about f lin. long, setaceous. Calyx 

 3 lin. long to 5 lin. long in the fruiting stage ; posticous segment 

 broadly ovate, 2^-3 lin. broad, obtuse, thin, distinctly reticulate ; the, 

 2 anticous segments similar but somewhat narrower ; lateral shorter, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, minutely ciliate on the margins and 

 keel. Corolla white, slightly longer than the calyx ; upper lip 

 enrarginate ; lower lip deeply 3-lobecl : lobes emarginate. Style 1 lin. 

 long, emarginate-capitate at the apex. Capsule 2 lin. long, ellipsoid, 

 obtuse, densely gland-dotted. Seeds ellipsoid, regularly areolate. — • 

 Herpestls calycina, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 57, and in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 399 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. viii. 65. Bacopa calycina, 

 Engl, in Schlechter, Westafrik. Kautsch.-Exped. 313 ; De Wild. &, 

 Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me ser. i., 832 ; De Wild. Etud. Fl. Bas- 

 et Moyen-Congo, i. 73. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Senegal, Leprieur, 214 ! Togo : 

 near Louie, War necke, 2261 Northern Nigeria : Borgu, Barter, 1690 ! 



Wile Land. Hongo: Dukntu (Dug^udu), Schiveinfurth, 2837 ! 



Lower Guinea, Lower Congo : island near Ponta da Lenha, Naumann ; 

 Nta no Falls, near Stanley Pool, Mens, 27 ! Stanley Pool, Schlechter, 12559 ! 

 bet veen Dembo and Kisantu, Gillet, 1576. Angola : Ambriz, Welwitsch, 5918 ! 

 Goinngo Alto ; near Calolo, Welwitsch, 5909 ! Cazengo ; near Dalatanda, Wel- 

 witsch, 1262 ! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5875 ! 5877 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : between Leopoldville and Mombazi, 

 Gillet, 2552. 



XMCozamb. Dist. Zanguebar, Kirk ! 



Var. Thonningii, Bentli. in DC. Prodr. x. 399. Leaves narrower than the calyx- 

 segments. — S. Thonningii, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 58. Erinns 

 africanus, Sehumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 278 ? not of Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathman. Ashanti : Ningo, Thonning. 



3. M. decumbens, Skan. A rather stout glandular-punctate herb 

 1-2 ft. high, erect or decumbent at the base ; stem quadrangular, 

 simple or branched, glabrous or slightly glandular-pulverulent. Leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1|— 2^ in. long, ^-f in. broad, subacute 

 or obtusely acuminate, narrowed at the base, often semiamplexicaul, 

 serrulate above the middle, glabrous, densely glandular- punctate. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, usually distant on the stem, often crowded at 

 the ends of very short branches ; peduncles 1-3 lin. long ; bracts linear 

 to lanceolate, 1^-lf lin. long. Posticous calyx-segment broadly ovate, 

 3|-1| nn - l°ng, 3 lin. broad, glabrous, obtuse, strongly nerved, some- 

 times minutely few-toothed ; anticous segments somewhat narrower ; 

 lateral lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely ciliate on the 

 margins and keel. Corolla 4-5 lin. long, slightly 2-lipped. Capsule 

 ovoid, 2|-3 lin. long, glandular-pulverulent. — Herpestis decumbens, 

 Fernald in Proc. Amer. Acad, xxxiii. 91. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 595 ! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 30 ! 

 Sierra Leone : about Mahela, Scott-IElliot, 3847 ! 



Also in Mexico. 



I can find no valid character by which to separate the African from tlie 

 Mexican plant. Scott-Elliot's specimen is labelled " very common in ricefields." 

 It has probably been introduced into Africa. 



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