332 xcn. scuophulariace^e (hemsley and ska.n). [Craterostigma. 



IVXozamb. XJist. British Central Africa : Nvasaland ■ wet rock on the top of 

 Mount Zomba, Buchanan, 246 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 796 ! 



7. C. linearifolium, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 501, t. 8, figs. 

 Q — L. A small glabrous caespitose herb 1-2 in. high. Leaves all 

 radical, linear, f-lf in. long, rather thick, obtuse. Scape J-- 1-J- in. 

 long, slender, quadrangular ; flowers in a small terminal corymbose 

 raceme ; bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-2^ lin. long ; pedicels 

 up to '2\ lin. long. Calyx about \\ lin. long; teeth semi-ovate, obtuse, 

 A- 1 lin. long. Corolla whitish-violet on the tube and often on the 

 upper lip, purple on the lower lip; tube 1-1^ lin. long; lobes \\ lin. 

 long, denticulate. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 762. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; elevated places at Nene, Welwitsch, 

 5782! 



8. C. Goetzei, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 477. A perennial 

 herb branched from the base; stems 6-14 in. long, few, ascending, 

 quadrangular, quite glabrous ; lower internodes short, the others 

 elongated. Leaves sessile, pellucid-punctate, the lower ovate, rather 

 obtuse, about 5 lin. long and 4 lin. broad, 3-5-nerved, the upper ovate 

 to oblong, 2|— 8| lin. long, 1J-2J lin. broad. Flowers 3-7, more or 

 less distant in a spike-like raceme; bracts l£ lin. long, ^ lin. broad, 

 elongate-triangular, acute ; pedicels -J--l| lin. long. Calyx 3 lin. long, 

 purple on the winged angles; teeth triangular, |-1 lin. long, acute, 

 minutely ciliate. Corolla blue or violet, yellow on the tube and on the 

 throat inside, sparsely and shortly pilose or minutely scaberulous out- 

 side ; tube ?j\ lin. long, 1 lin. broad; upper lip broadly ovate, about \\ 

 lin. long, shortly bilobed ; lower lip densely covered with brown hairs 

 at the base; lobes 2|— 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, obovate. Appendages 

 to the anticous filaments subclavate, about 1 lin. long. Capsule ovoid, 

 acute, 2|- lin. long, If lin. in diam. ; seeds ovoid, brown, longitudinally 

 sulcate and minutely tuberculate. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Uhehe ; Uchungwe Mountain, near 

 Kissinga, 6560 ft., Goetze, 581 ; Lower plateau, north of Lake Nvasa, Thomson ! 



9. C. Schweinfurthii, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 501. An 

 erect perennial 6-18 in. high; stems quadrangular, simple or sparingly 

 branched, glabrous or sparingly pilose at the base. Leaves opposite, 

 3-nerved, glabrous or minutely ciliate, entire or with a few small teeth, 

 the lower approximate, elliptic, obtuse, 13-10 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad, 

 the upper distant, becoming gradually smaller, elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 

 Inflorescence terminal, subcapitate ; bracts subulate, shorter than the 

 flower's, minutely ciliate ; pedicels very short. Calyx 2-J- lin. long, 

 5-angled or 5-ribbed; teeth 1 lin. long, setaceous above, minutely 

 ciliate. Corolla violet, puberulous outside ; tube 3 lin. long ; upper 

 lip slightly emarginate, 2\ lin. long, 2 lin. broad, suborbicular , lower 

 lip 4 lin. long, 5 lin. broad, with a few clavate hairs on the palate. 

 Appendages of the anticous stamens short, capitate at the apex ; 

 anthers glabrous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 762 ; Engl. & Gilg 



