Limosella.] xcn. scrophulariace<e (hemsley and skan.) 353 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po : top of Clarence Peak, 9000-10000 ft., Mann, 

 597! 



Cosmopolitan. 



2. L. maior, Diets in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 122. A tufted minutely 

 glandular marsh herb much larger than L. aquatica. Leaves radical, 

 crowded, oblong, spathulate-oblong or spathulate, subacute or obtuse, 

 narrowed at the base, erect ; blade usually -f-lf- in. long and ^—J in. 

 broad, broadest about the middle ; petiole stout, A-4 in. long. Peduncles 

 f— 2J in. long, erect in flower, deflexed in fruit. Calyx 1|~2 lin. long; 

 teeth deltoid-ovate, i lin. long. Corolla lilac- or bluish-white ; tube 

 about 2 lin. long ; lobes scarcely exserted, ovate-rounded. Capsule 

 about 2;V lin. long and 1 lin. broad. — Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 

 357. 



Nile land. Eritrea: Saganeiti; valley of Degerra, 7200 ft., Schiveinfurth fy 

 Siva, 1260 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



L. aquatica, var. alismoides, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 766, 

 collected by Welvvitsch in Angola, is, according to Hiern, probably referable to 

 L. maior. 



3. L. capensis, Thunb. Prodr. 104. Very closely resembles 

 L. aquatica in habit and foliage. Leaves ovate, elliptic-oblong or sub- 

 linear ; blade 1-8 lin. long, |— 3 lin. broad ; petioles very slender, up to 

 2 in. long or sometimes more. Peduncles 1 -flowered, up to 1^ (rarely 

 to 2) in. long. Calyx f-1 lin. long, enlarged slightly in fruit ; teeth 

 broadly ovate. Corolla-tube about as long as or slightly longer than 

 the calyx ; lobes as long as or nearly as long as the tube, pilose and 

 white on the upper side, purplish or pale blue with a white border on 

 the underside. Capsule globose, f-1 lin. long. — Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 

 Schult. 480 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 427 ; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 

 iv. ii. 358. L. ccerulea, Burch. Trav. S. Afr. i. 259, in note. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand ; Gobabis, 

 Schinz ! and without precise locality, Chapman Sf Baines. 

 Also in South Africa. 



33. SIBTHORPIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 959. 



Calyx campanulate, 4-8- (usually 5-) fid ; lobes somewhat unequal. 

 Corolla subrotate ; lobes as many as those of the calyx or one more, 

 subequal, imbricate, spreading. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes 

 or one less ; filaments short, filiform, subequal ; anthers sagittate, with 

 the cells contiguous and not confluent at the apex. Style short ; stigma 

 capitate. Capsule membranous, compressed, loculicidal. Seeds not 

 numerous, convex on the back, flat or concave on the face, minutely 

 tuberculate-rugose. — Prostrate creeping usually hairy herbs, often 

 rooting at the nodes. Leaves alternate or fasciculate, petiolate, 

 orbicular-reniform, coarsely crenate or incised-pinnatifid. Peduncles 

 vol. iv. — sec. 2 2 a 



