338 xcn. scrophulariace,£ (hemslky and skan). [Lindernia; 



Flowers 3-5, crowded at the apex of 

 the stem ; bracts linear-lanceo- 

 late ; corolla with a blue upper 

 lip and a white and yellow lower 

 lip ...... 10. L. rupestris. 



Flowers often many, in a loose spike- 

 like raceme ; bracts ovate ; corolla 

 yellow . . . . . 11. L. insularis. 



Stems very sparingly leafy; cauline 

 leaves elliptic-ovate, only 1-^-3 lin. 

 long . . , . . . 12. L. bifolia. 



Perennial ; corolla 4-J lin. long . . . 13. L. abyssinica. 



ff Leaves narrow. 



Plant erect, unbranched or sparingly branched. 



Pedicels about as long as the bracts . . 14. L. uvens. 



Pedicels 2 or 3 times as long as the bracts 15. L. Stuhlmannii. 

 Plant prostrate, much branched . . .16. L. debilis. 



1. L. diffusa, Wettst. in Engl. <b Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 80. 

 A pubescent diffusely branched procumbent annual herb, the brunches 

 sometimes rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves very shortly petiolate or' 

 sessile, ovate-suborbicular, usually 6-7 lin. long, obtuse, rounded or 

 somewhat cuneate at the base, crenate- serrate. Flowers solitary in the 

 axils of all the upper leaves ; peduncles scarcely 1 lin. long. Calyx 

 3-3^- lin. long, sparingly and minutely pubescent ; teeth subulate, 2|-1|- 

 lin. long, unequal, the posticous longest. Corolla white or flesh-coloured, 

 3i lin. long ; tube hairy inside from the base of the lower lip to half- 

 way down. Anticous filaments with obovate or oblong very obtuse 

 appendages. Capsule narrowly oblong, 4-7 lin. long, beaked. — Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. i. 763; Engl, in Schlechter, Westafrik. Kautsch.- 

 Expecl. 313. Vandellia diffusa, Linn. Mant. i. 89 ; Benth in DC. Prodr. 

 x. 416 ; Durand& Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 210 ; De Wild. & Durand, 

 Contrib. Fl. Congo, i, fasc. 2. 45, and Reliq. Dewevr. 170. Pyxidaria 

 diffusa, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 464. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4013 ! Sugarloaf 

 Mountain, Welwitsch, 5924 ! and without precise locality, Morson ! Liberia : Kaka 

 Town, Whyte ! Gold Coast: Begovo,- Johnson, 696 ! Lagos: between Ibadan and 

 Abeokuta, Schlechter, 12341 ! Southern Nigeria : Onitsa, Barter, 1766 ! Cameroons : 

 Bipinde, Zenker, 1081 !' Batanga, Bates, 2! and without precise locality, Preuss, 

 1184 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 1441 ! 



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



South Central. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Kens, 322 ! Kinchassa, Zuja, 

 and near Leopoldville, Dewevre, 525 ! 



Also in Madagascar and Trop : cal America. 



Var. ■peduncnlata, Skan. Peduncles 2-5 lin. long. — Vandellia diffusa^ var. 

 /3 pedunculata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 416. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel, 111 ! Barter! 



