Lindemia.] xcn. scrophulariace^ (hemsley and skan). 341 



parent between the ribs, glabrous or ciliate on the teeth and ribs ; teeth 

 spreading, linear, 2-2 h lin. long, acuminate, keeled. Corolla blue with 

 delicate pellucid veins, 5-6 lin. long ; tube funnel-shaped, 4|- lin. long ; 

 upper lip 2 lin. long, ovate, emarginate, ciliate, sparingly pubescent 

 outside ; lower lip 4 lin. long, 3i lin. broad, deeply 3-lobed, with a few 

 long hairs at the base ; lateral lobes oblong ; median lobe elliptic. 

 Anticous stamens exserted ; appendages subclavate, curved, short, 

 yellow, minutely tuberculate ; anthers pale blue. Capsule (unripe) 

 narrowly oblong, acute, as long as the calyx. 



Nile Land. Uganda: Nandi, near water, Scott-JSlliot, 7225! first and second 

 days' inarch from Mumyas, Whyte ! 



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



In the British Mnseum there is a fragmentary specimen collected by Gossweiler 

 at Malange, Angola, which very closely resembles L. Whytei, and may prove to 

 be the same species. It has, however, a shorter calyx-tube, longer teeth, and a 

 smaller golden-yellow corolla with narrower tube scarcely longer than the calyx. 



9. L. nuinmulariaefolia, Wettst. in Engl, & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 3 B. 79. An erect annual herb 2-4 in. high, usually with short 

 spreading hairs on the stem and branches, on the margins and on the 

 nerves of the underside of the leaves ; stem simple or branched from 

 the base upwards ; branches straight, ascending, the lower longer than 

 the upper. Leaves subsessile, ovate or suborbicular, 4-8 lin. long, 4-7 

 lin. broad, serrate or crenate-serrate. Flowers solitary in the axils of 

 the upper leaves or sometimes in few-flowered subumbellate axillary 

 racemes; peduncles 4-7 lin. long. Calyx sparingly pubescent, 1J lin. 

 long ; teeth somewhat unequal, J-J lin. long, broad, acute. Corolla 

 pale blue variegated with yellow, or purple (Wehoitsch), 2\ lin. long; 

 tube densely hairy inside from the base of the lower lip to half-way down ; 

 upper lip entire, oblong, \\ lin. long, minutely ciliate; lobes of lower 

 lip rounded, about f lin. in diam. Anticous filaments bent and dilated 

 at the base. Capsule 2\-'Z lin. long, ovoid-oblong, shortly beaked. — 

 Engl. Pn. Ost-Afr. C. 357; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 763. 

 Vandellia nummular if olia, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 86 ; Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 416 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 282. Pyxidarianummulari- 

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



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Buea, Preuss ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo : near Cabondo and Catete, 

 Welwitsch, 5872 ! 5873 ! 



Also in Northern India and Western China. 



Var. sessiliflora, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 763. Flowers usually sessile 

 or subsessile. — L. sessiliflora, Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 79; 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 357. L. ? montana, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 764. 

 Vandellia sessiliflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 37, and in DC. Prodr. x. 416; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Biit. Ind. iv. 282. Mitranthus latifolius, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 103. M. 

 triflorus, Hochst. in A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 120. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; Welwitsch, 5878 ! Huilla ; Moito 

 de Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5787 ! 



