Lindemia.] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and sean). 348 



wile Land. Uganda : Lake Victoria ; Sesse Islam), 3900 ft., Brown, 117. 



12. L. bifolia, Skan. A slender erect annual herb 2-4 J- in. high, 

 branched from the base and sometimes sparingly branched above, covered 

 (in some places rather densely) with short spreading grey hispid hairs ; 

 root slender, with very few fibres ; stems quadrangular. Leaves in a 

 basal pair, and 1 or 2 pairs of very small ones on the stem when this 

 is branched ; basal leaves elliptic-ovate, sessile, 5-7 lin. long, 3-5 lin. 

 broad, thin, acute, obscurely few-toothed, nearly glabrous below ; cauline 

 leaves similar to the basal, but only 1^-3 lin. long. Inflorescence a 

 few-flowered terminal raceme ; flowers usually alternate ; bracts oppo- 

 site, subulate, |— f lin. long ; pedicels tj-1^- lin. long. Calyx lf-2 lin. 

 long, prominently 5-ribbed, sparingly and hispidly hairy, purple in 

 fruit ; teeth 1|— lA lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 4 lin. 

 long ; upper lip oblong-ovate, If lin. long, obtuse, emarginate ; lower 

 lip 2| lin. long, 3 lin. broad, with a crest of clavate golden-yellow hairs 

 at the base ; lateral lobes elliptic, 14_ lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; median 

 lobe suborbicular, 1^ lin. in diam. Anticous filaments with a slender 

 capitate pubescent appendage near the base. Capsule ellipsoid-globose, 

 shorter than the calyx, apiculate. 



JVIozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Kambole, south-west of Lake Tan- 

 ganyika, about 5000 ft., Niitt / 



13. L. abyssinica, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 503, t. 9, figs. A — E. 

 An erect perennial herb about 2 in. high, branched from the base, 

 bearing numerous fibrous roots ; stem quadrangular, glabrous, leafless 

 at the base but marked with rather crowded leaf -scars; branches 

 sparingly and minutely pubescent. Leaves crowded on the stem, in 

 rather distant pairs on the branches, sessile, elliptic, 3-6 lin. long, 

 2-3^ lin. broad, obtuse, somewhat narrowed at the base, remotely 

 serrulate, glabrous above, sparingly and shortly pubescent below, 

 ciliate. Flowers axillary, solitary, usually alternate : peduncles 3-6 

 lin. long. Calyx 2f lin. long with a few short hispid hairs on the 

 upper part, often coloured purple ; teeth triangular, |— | lin. long, sub- 

 acute. Corolla apparently yellow, 4^ lin. long ; tube hairy inside from 

 the base of the lower lip to half-way down ; upper lip ovate, 2 lin. long, 

 denticulate ; lobes of the lower lip denticulate. Anticous filaments 

 dilated and sharply bent at the base. Capsule about 3| lin. long, 

 oblong, acute. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Begemeder; on rocks near Gafat, 8850 ft., Schimper, 

 116-4! 



14. L. uvens, Hiem in Cat. Afr. PI. Weho. i. 763. An annual 

 herb 2-4 in. high, nearly glabrous ; stem erect, tetragonal, minutely 

 scabrid-puberulous, slender, leafy below, sparingly leafy above. Leaves 

 opposite or the uppermost floral ones alternate, sessile, ovate, oblong or 

 lanceolate, 1-4 lin. long, obtuse or the floral subacute, more or less 

 broad at the base, minutely glandular-punctate and pulverulent- 



