348 xcii. scROPHULARiACEiE (hemsley and skan). [Ilysanthes. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5788 ! pastures of 

 Empalanca, Weiwitsch, 5789 ! 



Also in the Transvaal and Natal. 



6. I. pulchella, Skan. An erect herb 2-2|- in. high, branched 

 from the base, thinly covered on the branches and leaves with short 

 rather stiff whitish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 2-5 lin. long, 1-2 lin. 

 broad, sessile or the lower subsessile, obtuse, few-toothed. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary ; peduncles glabrous or nearly so, 3-9 (usually about 

 5) lin. long. Calyx 2£ lin. long, slightly 5-angled, with narrow scarious 

 spaces between the angles ; teeth -| lin. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 

 obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla 4^-5 lin. long; upper lip ovate, con- 

 tracted near the apex, 2-2-J lin. long, bifid ; teeth ovate, acute, scarcely 

 ^ lin. long ; lower lip 2^ lin. long, 3 lin. broad ; lateral lobes obovate, 

 1\ lin. long, 1 lin. broad; median lobe suborbicular, 1| lin. in diam. 

 Staminodes gibbous, with a very short proboscis-like appendage. Cap- 

 sule 3-3-| lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, oblong, acute. 



Kozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; plateau of Mount .Zomba, 

 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



This closely resembles I. Bolusii, Hiern, from extra-tropical Transvaal, but 

 differs in its very obtuse calyx-teeth and the form of the staminodes. 



A fragment collected on the Inyanga Mountains, Rhodesia, by Mr. Evelyn Cecil 

 (209) is probably I. pulchella, but the rich purplish-blue dowers are larger than those 

 of the type. 



7. I. pusilla, Urban in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 1884, 435. A 

 glabrous or sparingly and minutely pubescent herb li-2 in. high ; stem 

 simple or sparingly branched, creeping at the base, then ascending or 

 erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, ^-J in. long, rather 

 obtuse, entire. Peduncles 2-3 lin. long, in the axils of the upper leaves, 

 spreading in fruit. Calyx l^-li lin. long, 5-toothed ; teeth scarcely 

 h lin. long, semi-ovate, obtuse. Corolla 3-4 lin. long, white, slightly 

 marked on the underside with red ; upper lip erect, emarginate ; lower 

 lip convex, broadly 3-lobed. Staminodes very minute. Capsule linear- 

 oblong, 3-4 lin. long, acute, with divergent valves. — Bonnaya imsilla, 

 Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 121, t. 122 A. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Karagwe, 5500 ft., by water and rock, 

 Speke 8c Grant ! 



8. I. ugandensis, Skan. An erect very slender sparingly and 

 minutely hispidly pubescent herb 1-1 h in. high ; stem simple or few- 

 branched ; branches erect-spreading. Leaves sessile, linear-oblong or 

 linear-lanceolate, 1^-2 lin. long, about -| in. broad, obtuse, entire, rather 

 fleshy. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves ; peduncles 

 very slender, 1^-3 lin. long, suberect in flower. Calyx scarcely 1 lin. 

 long; teeth ovate or almost deltoid, \-\ lin. long, obtuse but narrow at 

 the apex, purple-tipped. Corolla about 2^ lin. long ; tube funnel- 

 shaped, 11 lin. long; upper lip oblong-ovate, nearly 1 lin. long and 

 f lin. broad, very slightly emarginate, minutely ciliate ; lower lip If lin. 



