Buchnera.] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hkmsley and skan). 895 



teeth 5, ovate-lanceolate, If- lin. long, sparingly ciliate, shortly acuminate, 

 the uppermost slightly narrower than the others. Corolla white, funnel- 

 shaped ; tube 8 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, straight or slightly curved, 

 glabrous outside, long-pilose at the throat inside ; lobes nearly equal, 

 suborbicular, 5 lin. in diam., overlapping at the margin. Anthers 

 acuminate. Style If lin. long, much thickened in the upper part. 

 Capsule ellipsoid or oblong, 1 lin. long, nearly 2 lin. broad at the base, 

 slightly narrower above, slightly curved, very shortly apiculate. 



Mozam'o. Bist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, 4000-7000 ft.; near 

 Mount Masisi, McClounie, 123 partly ! Masuku Plateau, Whyte ! Nyika Plateau, 

 Wlujte ! 



45. B. longespicata, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 

 193. A strigose annual herb 1 ft. high or more, sparingly or often much 

 branched from the woody base ; branches slender, subterete, somewhat 

 rigid, erect-spreading, leafy especially at the base. Leaves opposite, 

 subopposite or sometimes alternate, sessile or very shortly petiolate, 

 linear to linear-lanceolate, up to If in. long, f-2tj lin. broad, obtuse or 

 somewhat acute, narrowed at the base, entire, densely covered with 

 short hispid hairs, which are often thickened at the base, scabrid. 

 Spikes terminal, with the flowers crowded at the apex, becoming very 

 lax and growing out up to 8 in. long in the fruiting stage, distinctly 

 tapering at the apex some distance beyond the opened flowers ; flowers 

 opposite or subopposite, subdistichous ; lower bracts leaflike, lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate, 5-6 lin. long ; upper bracts ovate-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, about 1^ lin. long and h lin. broad, acute or acuminate, 

 shortly white-pilose ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx 2 T i—3 lin. long, 

 densely white-pilose, 5-toothed, 10-nerved; hairs more or less distinctly 

 reflexed ; teeth subulate or narrowly triangular, about 5 lin. long, 

 spreading after flowering. Corolla apparently violet-blue ; tube funnel- 

 shaped, slightly oblique and curved, 4-4^- lin. long, \ lin. broad at the 

 base, 1— If lin. broad at the throat, adpressed-pilose outside, densely 

 pilose at the throat inside ; lobes unequal, oblong-obovate to obovate, 

 If— 3f lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, the lower larger than the upper. 

 Anthers acuminate. Style If lin. long, clavate at the apex. Capsules 

 oblong, "2-2h lin. long, f lin. broad, mostly in pairs about h in. apart, 

 rarely up to 1 in. or more apart. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Ambohtnd ; Grootfontein, Schinz, 

 40 ! Oinatope, Schinz, 356 ! 



•16. B. pallescens, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 512. An erect 

 annual herb lA-lf ft. high, rather slender, sparingly pilose, scabrid on 

 the leaves ; stem terete, sometimes branched in the upper part, and 

 bearing very short leafy branches in many of the leaf -axils. Leaves 

 alternate, linear, l-2£ in. long, |— 2 lin. broad, acute, entire or remotely 

 toothed. Flowers in loose spikes terminating the stem and short lateral 

 branches, the spikes elongating very much after the fall of the corollas ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, If lin. long, \ lin. broad, acuminate, shortly 

 pilose, ciliate, concave; bracteoles linear, If lin. long, otherwise as the 



