336 xcii. scrophulariace,e (hemsley and skan). [Torenia. 



Fl. Brit. Incl. iv. 278 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. viii. 65 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 357; and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 318 (Tor- 

 renia); Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 762; De Wild. & Durand, 

 Reliq. Dewevr. 170. T. ramosissima, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 1875, 10. Lindemia senegalensis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 763. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 587 ! 605 ; 606 ! Sierra Leone : Samu 

 Country, near Tombia, Scott -Elliot, 4215 ! Niger Territory : from the sea to Nupe, 

 Barter, 1199! Lagos: between Ibadan and Abeokuta, Schlechter, 12339 1 

 Ciimeroons : Batanga, Bates, 121 ! near Lobe, Bates, 42 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 

 1442! 



Nile Land. Jur : Jur Ghattas, Sehiveinfurtk, 1463 ! British East Africa : 

 Shimoni, south of Mombasa, Whyte ! 



lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyanx, 338 ! Lower 

 Congo : Boma, Dewevre. Island near Ponta da Lenha, Naumann. Stanley Pool, 

 Hens, 89 ! 301 ! Angola : Ambaea; between Pamba and Puri-Cacarambola, Wel- 

 witsch, 5913 ! near Arobriz, Welwitsch, 5917 ! Cazengo ; at Dalatanda, Welwitsch, 

 5910 ! Pimgo Andongo, Wehvitsch, 5876 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; near Munza, Sclitveinfurth, 

 3479! 



Moiamb. Bist. Zanzibar : Kirk ! Hildebrandt, 986 ! German East Africa : 

 Zanguebar, Kirk, 8 ! Usambara; Tanga, Volkens, 21! Portuguese East Africa : 

 Zambesi Delta ; Kongone Eiver, Kirk ! Chiloane, Scott ! British Central Africa : 

 Nyasaland ; Umbaka Eiver, north of Lake Nyasa, Scott 1 River Shire ; Elephant 

 Marsh, Scott ! 



Also in Madagascar, Tropical Asia and America. 



Var. brevipedicellata, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas-et Moyen-Congo, i. 73. Plant 

 regularly dichotomously branched. Leaves rather shortly petiolate, broadly elliptic, 

 6 lin. long, 5 lin. broad, almost entire, acute, rounded or subobtuse at the buse. 

 Pedicels slender, li-2 lin. long. Calyx 4-4| lin. long in fruit. Corolla unknown. 



South Central. Congo Free State : between Leopoldville aud Mombazi 

 (Mbasi), Gillet, 2554. 



4. T. Mannii, Shan. Stems ascending, about 1 ft. long, quadran- 

 gular, glabrous except for a few minute hairs on some of the nodes,, 

 sparingly and shortly branched. Leaves ovate, in distant pairs, usually 

 14 in. long, 9-11 lin. broad, glabrous, pellucid-punctate, acute, truncate- 

 cuneate at the base, acutely serrate ; petiole 4-7 lin. long. Flowers 

 solitary in the axil of one of the leaves of the uppermost pair or pair's 

 on the stem or on short axillary branches ; peduncles J-l in. long, 

 glabrous. Calyx glabrous, 54 lin. long, 2-lipped, very narrowly 5-winged ; 

 teeth acuminate, about f lin. long. Corolla purple {Mann), about 8 lin. 

 long ; upper lip oblong, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, concave inside ; lobes 

 of the lower lip suborbicular, about 14 lin. in diam. Filaments of the 

 anticous stamens with a subclavate appendage about 1 lin. long; anthers 

 coherent in pairs. Capsule oblong, 44; lin. long, bearing a beak about 

 1 lin. long. Seeds globose, tuberculate. 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1663 ! 



