386 xcn. scrophulaeiace.e (hemsley akd skan). \Buchnera, 



lobes obovate or oblong, 2J-3 lin. long, §-2 lin. broad. Style \\ lin. 

 long. Capsule narrowly oblong, 3J-3f lin. long; valves recurved. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains ; 

 Kirunde Mountain, 6600 ft., Ooetze, 899 ! British Central Africa : NyasalancU 



Whyte ! 



22. B. namuliensis, Skan. Stem erect, 1 ft. high or more, simple 

 below, sparingly branched above, quadrangular, few-leaved, puberulous. 

 Lower leaves wanting ; upper leaves alternate, linear to linear-lanceo- 

 late, up to lij in. long and 1^ lin. broad, entire, sparingly hispidly 

 pubescent. Spikes terminal or sometimes lateral, \- l^.in. long, rather 

 densely flowered, elongating and becoming lax in fruit ; bracts broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2-|- lin. long, concave, shortly pilose ; bracteoles 

 linear, lj-H lin. long, acuminate. Calyx 2|--2| lin. long, distinctly 

 10-nerved, 5-toothed, somewhat hisjaidly hairy ; teeth linear-triangular Y 

 about f- lin. long. Corolla-tube about 5 lin. long, narrow, slightly curved,, 

 very sparingly hairy on the upper part outside ; lobes obovate, about 



2 lin. long and \\ lin. broad. Anthers acuminate. Style nearly 2 lin. 

 long. Capsule ellipsoid, slightly curved, 2 lin. long, minutely apiculate. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Makua Country : Namuli Hills.. 

 Last ! 



23. B. Welwitscfoii, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 70, t. o,fig. F,. 

 partly. An erect annual herb 1|— 1| ft. high or more, sparingly covered 

 with slender grey hairs; stem simple or sparingly branched, slender,, 

 rather leafy; internodes about | in. long at the base, 1^—2^- in. long 

 above. Basal leaves elliptic-oblong, 5-10 lin. long, 4-5 lin. broad,, 

 obtuse, sparingly and irregularly toothed, scabrid with minute white 

 points ; upper leaves opposite or subopposite, sessile, oblong-linear to 

 linear, about 1| in. long, 1|-2|- lin. broad, acute, narrowed at the base, 

 entire or minutely few-toothed, somewhat scabrid, grey-pilose. Flowers 

 in a terminal rather crowded spike about f in. long; bracts lanceolate,. 

 3-3^1in. long, concave, pilose; bracteoles linear or subulate, 1J- 2 lin.. 

 long, pilose. Calyx 2^-3 lin. long, pilose ; teeth unequal, f-1^ lin. 

 long, subulate. Corolla deep blue ; tube 4J lin. long, sparingly pilose 

 outside, rather densely pilose at the throat inside, cylindric, straight ; 

 lobes obovate, 2-2-J- lin. long, 1^-2 lin. broad, the lower larger than the 

 upper. Anthers acuminate. Style 1-1 -J- lin. long. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 776, partly. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Humpata Plateau, Welwitsch, 5S32 ! 

 Var. elata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 776. Stem 2-3 ft. high, more leafy 

 than in the type. Leaves oblong to linear-oblong or the uppermost linear, up to. 



3 in. long and \ in. broad, remotely toothed, very scabrid. Corolla pale blue. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; by the River Maimbo, Welwitscli,. 

 5827! 



24. B. reissiana, Buettner ex Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 68, t. 3, 

 jig. K. A very slender herb about 1^ ft. high; stem simple below, 

 sparingly branched above, terete, \ lin. in diam., few-leaved (about 

 3 pairs at the base and a few small alternate ones near the apex). 

 Leaves of the lowest pair oblong-lanceolate, 1 in. long, 3-4 lin. broad,. 



