C rater o$tigma.~\ xcn. scROPHULARiACEiE (hemsley and skan). 331 



subequal, 1^ lin. long, crisply undulate. Anthers approximate in 

 pairs. Ovary ovoid-oblong, acute. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Kapte Plains, Gregory ! 



4. C. Smithii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 461. An acaulescent 

 herb with fibrous roots. Leaves ovate or oblanceolate-oblong, up to 

 71- lin. long and 6£ lin. broad, very obtuse, narrowed at the base into a 

 petiole up to 5 lin. long, rarely subsessile, firmly membranous, glabrous 

 above, adpressed-pubescent beneath. Scape slender, simple, 1^—1 § in. 

 long, white-pilose, 3- or 4-floAvered ; flowers nearly quite sessile ; bracts 

 3 lin. long, scarcely as broad, ciliate, closely applied to the flowers. 

 Calyx 2^ lin. long, subturbinate, rather pilose ; lobes deltoid, f lin. 

 long, l- lin. broad at the base, white-ciliate. Corolla blue ; tube in- 

 f undibuliform, 4 lin. long ; upper lip oblong-ovate, 2h lin. long, 2 lin. 

 broad, somewhat emarginate ; lobes of the lower lip If— 2 lin. broad. 

 Anthers approximate in pairs. Ovary ovoid, compressed. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Jara, Donaldson- Smith ! 



5. C. nanum, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. xv. 63, 1. 1479 (var. elatior). A 

 small move or less pilose acaulescent herb. Leaves ovate, f-1^ in. long, 

 3|— 5 lin. broad, entire, obtuse, narrowed at the base into a short broad 

 petiole, pilose on both sides or subglabrous on the upper side. Inflores- 

 cence a spike-like raceme, f-l-J in. long, on a scape somewhat longer 

 than the leaves ; bracts ovate, 4-6 lin. long, concave on the inside, 

 obtuse or subacute, sometimes purple-tipped; pedicels about 1\ lin. 

 long. Calyx 3|-4 lin. long, sparingly or rather densely hispidly hairy 

 outside, sometimes with a few hispid hairs on the teeth inside ; teeth 1 

 lin. long, broad, obtuse or subacute, sometimes purple-tipped. Corolla 

 glabrous, white and purplish {Cecil); tube 3|-4J lin. long; upper lip 

 2+—2f lin. long, 2 lin. broad, denticulate ; lower lip 2J-3J lin. long, 

 4-6 lin. broad ; lobes denticulate. — Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 360. 

 Torenia nana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 412. Uvedalia ? nana, E. Meyer 

 ex Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente. 151, 228. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Bhodesia ; Manika, Inyanga 

 Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Cecil, 208 / 

 Also in South Africa. 



6. C. lanceolatum, Skan. A rather densely pilose acaulescent 

 herb 2 J— 4i in. high. Leaves lanceolate, 1|-2| in. long, 3^-6 lin. 

 broad, narrowed at the apex and base, obtuse, quite entire, 3-5- 

 nerved ; eauline leaves few, opposite, shorter than the radical leaves. 

 Flowers racemose at the ends of the stem and short lateral branches ; 

 bracts ovate, somewhat narrowed at the apex or obtusely acuminate, 

 up to 1 in. long and h in. broad; pedicels 1-1 f lin. long. Calyx 3|— 4 

 lin. long, rather hispidly hairy ; teeth 1-1^ lin. long, oblong or broad at 

 the base and subsetaceous above. Corolla glabrous ; tube 3—3^ lin. 

 long ; upper lip suborbicular, 2 lin. long, denticulate ; lower lip 2^ lin. 

 long, 3^ lin. broad, denticulate. — C. nanum, var. lanceolatum, Engl. 

 PH. Ost-Afr. C. 357. 



