380 xcn. SCROPHULARJACE.E (hemsley axd skan). [Buchnera. 



flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate or triangular, l|-lf lin. long, J— \ lin. 

 broad, long white-pilose on the back and margins ; bracteoles filiform, 

 about §- lin. long, pilose. Calyx 2\ lin. long, rather densely pubescent, 

 10-nerved (5 thick nerves alternating with 5 thin ones), 5-toothed; 

 teeth narrowly triangular, acuminate, |-| lin. long. Corolla violet- 

 blue ; tube 4 lin. long, narrow, straight or slightly curved, white-pilose 

 ■outside; lobes obovate, 1|— If lin. long, 1-1 1 lin. broad. Anthers 

 Acute. Capsule oblong, 2 lin. long. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; by the River Palanca, Newton ! 



7. B. angolensis, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 70, I. 3, figs. G, H. 

 A slender erect freely branched annual 4-12 in. high, sparingly and 

 minutely pubescent ; stem and branches somewhat obscurely tetragonal ; 

 branches ascending, growing out at an acute angle with the stem. 

 Leaves opposite or subopposite, narrowly linear, acuminate, \-\\ lin. 

 long, |— ] lin. broad, sprinkled over with small rather hispid hairs. 

 Flowers in dense terminal somewhat quadrifarious spikes 3-6 lin. long ; 

 lowermost bracts very broadly ovate, \\ lin. long, 2 lin. broad, with a 

 terminal subulate taihlike appendage 2 -J— 3^ lin. long, pilose, ciliate ; 

 upper bracts rhomboid-orbicular, If lin. long, 1 J-lf lin. broad, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, scarious, ciliate, concave ; bracteoles narrowly 

 obovoid-spathulate, about 1 lin. long, obtuse, otherwise as the upper 

 bracts. Calyx about \\ lin. long, ovoid, scarious, very irregularly and 

 ■obscurely 4- or 5-toothed, fimbriate-ciliate. Corolla violet-blue, very 

 small; tube 1A— If lin. long, sparingly pilose outside, pilose inside ; limb 

 only about f lin. across ; lobes oblong, about \ lin. long. Anthers 

 scarcely acute. Style ^ lin. long. Capsule ovoid, \\ lin. long, apiculate. 

 — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 776. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; Hmnpata Plateau, near Empalanca, 

 Wekvitsch, 5829 ! 



8. B. minutiflora, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 404. An annual 

 herb 4-6 in. high, blackish when dry, minutely and sparsely pilose; 

 stem slender, sparingly leafy, simple or branched above, more rarely 

 branched at the base and middle; internodes 7^-10 lin. long. Basal 

 leaves oblong, about 4 lin. long and 2 lin. broad ; cauline leaves linear, 

 10 lin. long, J lin. broad, acute, spreading. Spikes terminal on the 

 stems and branches, 3-7tj lin. long and broad, few- or many-flowered ; 

 bracts spreading, lanceolate from a concave base, about 4 lin. long ; 

 bracteoles narrowly linear, 3 J-2 lin. long. Calyx 24j-3 lin. long, some- 

 what scarious, shortly and sparsely pilose, 5-toothed ; teeth linear- 

 triangular, acute, h lin. long. Corolla small, violet; tube 3 lin. long, 

 cylindric, narrow ; lobes oblong-obovate, up to 1 lin. long and \ lin. 

 broad, slightly unequal. Style about f lin. long. Capsule narrowly 

 oblong, 24; lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad at the base, slightly narrower 

 and rounded at the apex, minutely apiculate. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kinga Mountains; Ulcwama Mountain, 

 ■8200 ft., Goetze, 912 ! 



9. B. splendens, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 71, t. 3, fig, I. An 



