342 xcii. scROPHULAKJACEyE (hemsley and skan). [Lindernia. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Tig-re ; Tacazze Valley, near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 

 1728 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Marangu, 5600 ft.» 

 Volkens, 2328 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, 

 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



Also in Northern India. 



In Whyte's specimen the capsules are sessile or on peduncles up to i in. long. 



10. L. rupestris, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 402. An annual 

 herb with fibrous roots ; stem 2^-4 in. long, simple or sparingly 

 branched, slenderly white-pilose chiefly on the angles ; internodes 5-7J 

 lin. long. Leaves sessile, ovate, white-pilose on the nerves beneath, 3- 

 or 4-toothed on each side, 3-5-nerved, middle ones about 5-6 lin. 

 long, 3|— 4 lin. broad, the lower and upper somewhat smaller. Flowers 

 3-5, crowded at the apex of the stem ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2| lin. 

 long ; bracteoles narrowly linear, acute. Calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate,. 

 2J? lin. long, \ lin. broad, acute, white-pilose on the margins. Corolla- 

 tube funnel-shaped, 1| lin. long; upper lip broadly obcordate, blue, 

 1^ lin. long; lower lip white with yellow spots, 2 lin. long; lateral 

 lobes somewhat smaller than the anticous. Anticous filaments curved 

 and gibbous at the base. 



IVIozamh. Bist. German East Africa : Eastern Livingstone Mountains %. 

 Ubena, in the Tsansingewe district, 6900 ft., Goetze, 811. 



11. L. insularis, Skan. An annual herb 2-5 in. high; stem 

 erect or erect-spreading, usually more or less crooked, simple or usually 

 few-branched, sharply quadrangular, slightly twisted, minutely glan- 

 dular-pubescent, leafy ; branches opposite or alternate, 1 J-3J- in. long, 

 erect-spreading, often crooked ; internodes 4-15 lin. long. Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, broadly ovate or the lowermost pair shortly oblong, 

 very thin, somewhat acute, obtuse or rounded, rounded at the base, 

 minutely and very sparingly glandular-pubescent, toothed ; lowermost 

 leaves 9-12 lin. long, 6-8 lin. broad; upper 4-6 lin. long, 3-6 lin. 

 broad, becoming gradually smaller from below upwards ; teeth usually 

 4 or 5 each side, very small. Flowers few or many in loose spike-like 

 terminal or lateral racemes, one to each pair of bracts ; bracts broadly 

 ovate, 3-1 lin. long and broad, becoming smaller from below upwards, 

 unequal in size in each pair, the smaller subtending the flower, coarsely 

 few-toothed ; pedicels J-f lin. long. Calyx 2-2£ lin. long, rather 

 densely but minutely glandular-pubescent ; teeth narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate, If lin. long, acuminate. Corolla yellow, 3J-4 lin. long ; 

 tube 2 lin. long, § lin. broad ; upper lip oblong-ovate, about 1| lin. 

 long, minutely denticulate, shortly 2-lobed ; lower lip about 2 lin. long 

 and 2\ lin. broad, with a small crest of golden-yellow clavate hairs in 

 the middle ; lobes rounded, about 1 lin. in diam., minutely denticulate. 

 Anticous filaments with a golden-yellow knee-like appendage about 

 I lin. long at the base. Capsule globose-obovoid, very slightly longer 

 than the calyx, obtuse, glabrous. 



