140 xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). [Linderuia. 



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1-11 K n . long, unequal, the posticous longest. Corolla 4 lin. Ion 

 white, tinted with red on the upper lip ; tube hairy inside from the 

 base of the lower lip to half-way down. Anticous filaments with oblong 

 curved obtuse appendages. Capsule linear, 8-10 lin. long, acuminate. 

 — Vandellia senegalensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 416, partly. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Nun River, Vogel ! wet sands by the 

 Brass River, Barter, 27 ! 



6. L. lobelioides, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 357. An erect or 

 ascending herb i-1 ft. high, glabrous except a few minute hairs on the 

 calyx-teeth and margins of the younger leaves ; stem simple or branched 

 at the base. Leaves linear, entire, 1 in. long, 1| lin. broad, acute, the 

 lower sometimes purplish on the underside, the upper unequal in the 

 same pair ; floral leaves shorter. Flowers axillary, solitary ; peduncles 

 §-li in. (rarely ^-J in.) long, suberect at the time of flowering. 

 Calyx 2-3 lin. long, 5-fid ; teeth acute, 1-14; lin. long. Corolla 4|-5| 

 lin. long, blue ; upper lip broadly oblong, subtruncate ; lower lip 

 3-lobed; lobes rounded. Anticous filaments obtusely tuberculate at 

 the base, suddenly curved. Capsule (unripe) linear-oblong, acute or 

 acuminate, 5 lin. long. — Vandellia lobelioides, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. 120, t. 121 B. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Tigre, Schimper, 1222 ! Jur : Jur Ewet, Schwein- 

 furth, 1769 ! Bongo : by the Lesi River, Schioeinfurth, 4010 ! and without precise 

 locality, P ether iclc I Uganda : Madi, SpeTce Sf Grant ! Elgon district, James ! 



Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; Msalala, Hannington ! 

 Lower Plateau, North of Lake Nyasa, Thomson ! Nyasaland : North Nyasaland 

 and Upper Loangwa River, near Fort Young, Nicholson ! Shibisa to Tshinmuze, 

 2000-4000 ft., Kirlc ! Namasi, Cameron, 4 ! 



7. L<. Newtonii, Engl, in Engl.Jahrb. xxiii. 503, t. §,figs. M — N. 

 A small herb ; stem creeping and rooting in the lower part, then as- 

 cending ; internodes 2-|-3 lin. long. Leaves linear, 3—3^ lin. long, 

 | lin. broad, obtuse. Flowers solitary, terminal ; peduncles about 7h 

 lin. long. Calyx elongate-turbinate, 3 lin. long ; teeth narrowly 

 triangular, 1 lin. long. Corolla 4-5 lin. long; tube funnel-shaped, 

 2^-3 lin. long ; upper lip oblong, H-2 lin. long; lower lip about 3 lin. 

 Ions ; lobes obovate. Stamens exserted ; anticous filaments thickened 

 and geniculate at the base. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Humpata ; in damp places on the banks of the 

 Rio Nive, Newton, 252. 



8. L. Whytei, Skan. Stems apparently ascending, simple or 

 branched, quadrangular, about 1 ft. long, sparingly leafy, glabrous. 

 Leaves sessile, in distant pairs, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 

 lin. long, 2^-3^ lin. broad, acute or acuminate, dentate, rather thick, 

 glabrous or minutely ciliate and sometimes with a few hairs on the 

 nerves beneath. Flowers distant, in a terminal raceme ; bracts passing 

 from ovate below to subulate above, the upper shorter than the 

 pedicels ; pedicels 1-1^ lin. long. Calyx 3-4 lin. long, 5-ribbed, trans- 



