830 xcii. SCROPHULARIACE.E (hemsley and skan). [Craterosligma. 



Abyssinia : Tigre ; Mount Scholoda, Schimper, 310 ! Shoa, Quart in-Dillon ! 

 Dathura (Dat Hara), Roth, 461 ! Somaliland : Darra-as, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 

 Boobi and Hahi, James Sf Thrupp ! Uganda : Budclu, 4100 ft., Broion, 126 ! 

 British East Africa : Kapte Plains, Gregory, 30 ! Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6525 1 

 6710 ! Hildebrandt, 2750 ! Machakos, Hinde ! Mbuyuni, Scott-Elliot, 6194 ! 

 Taro, 1500 ft., Kdssner, 511 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, Welwitsch, 5785 ! 5786 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Karagwe, 4300-5500 ft., Speke Sf 

 Grant, 212 ! near the Kufua Biver, Bagshaive, 519. British Central Africa : 

 Nyas;dand; Zomba, Cameron, 73 partly! Matabeleland ; Iron-mine Hill, Son. 

 Mrs Evelyn Cecil, 93 ! Buluwayo, Rand, 157 ! and without precise locality, 

 Oates J South African Gold Fields, Raines ! 



Also in Arabia, and in extra-tropical Transvaal. 



The leaves and inflorescences vary considerably. The former in Scott-Elliot, 

 6194, and Cameron, 73, are elongate-lanceolate. 



2. C. pumilum, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 670. A small pubescent 

 stemless perennial with a thick rootstock. Leaves in a rosette 2-2| in. 

 in diam., broadly ovate, 10-12 lin. long, 7-8 lin. broad, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, ciliate, pubescent beneath, nearly glabrous above, narrowed at 

 the base into a short broad petiole. Scape very short or wanting ; 

 bracts 4 J- lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate ; pedicels 

 |— 1^ lin. long. Calyx 3^ lin. long ; teeth 1 lin. long, scarcely acute. 

 Corolla 6-8 lin. long, blue and white with yellow at the throat ; upper 

 lip entire, 3-4 lin. long ; lower lip 4^-5|- lin. long, 5-6 J lin. broad. 

 Anthers glabrous. — Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 307 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 357. C aur icuh y folium, Benth. & Hook. f. ex Vatke in Linnsea, 

 xliii. 308. Dunalia acaulis, R.Br, in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. Torenia 

 pumila, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 411 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii„ 

 121 ; Schweinf. in Hohnel, Lakes Rudolf & Stephanie, ii. 357. T. 

 auriculcefolia, Dombrain, Flor. Mag. x. t. 534. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia : Samen ; near Enjedcap, Schimper, 986 ! Ankober, 

 Roth, 474 ! and without precise locality, Salt ! Somaliland : Serrut Mountains, near 

 Maid, 5900 ft,, Hildebrandt, 1563! Wagga Mountains, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 

 British East Africa : Kikuyu, Jackson ! Mount Keuia, 6500-8000 ft., Teleki. 



IVXozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 6500 ft., Teleki. 

 Marangu, 7400 ft., Volkens, 909 ! 



3. C. hirsutum, & Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 461. A smali 

 acaulescent herb bearing numerous slender fibres (presistent nerves 

 of the leaves) at the base, pilose-hirsute on both sides of the leaves, on 

 the scape, underside of the bracts, pedicels and calyx. Leaves rosulate, 

 oblong-spathulate, 7h Hn. long, about 5 lin. broad, membranous, rather 

 obtuse, entire, 5-nerved. Scape ascending, slender, 1 1— 2 in. long ; 

 bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2^-3| lin. long, acute, glabrous above ; 

 pedicels 2^ lin. long. Calyx turbinate, 3 lin. long ; tube 1 lin. in diam. 

 in the upper part ; lobes lanceolate, 1 lin. long, acute. Corolla glabrous ; 

 tube infundibuliform, 3| lin. long; upper lip oblong, 3| lin. long, 

 emarginate, slightly undulate on the margin ; lobes of lower lip 



