398 xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). \Buclinera. 



B. hrowniana, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 194, collected by 

 Schinz at Auweb in S.E. Ondonga, appears from tbe description to be synonymous 

 with tbe above. 



50. B. longifolia, Klotzsch in Peters, lleise Mossamb. Bot. 225 „ 

 An erect often robust annual herb up to 2J ft. high ; stem terete or 

 subterete, usually much branched chiefly about the middle, more or 

 less pubescent or pilose (often hispidly) ; branches alternate, erect- 

 spreading, up to 1 ft. long. Leaves opposite below, alternate above,, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, up to 3£ in. long and 

 § in. broad, obtuse to acuminate, narrowed at the base, sometimes- 

 shortly petiolate, entire or serrate, pubescent, often very scabrid. 

 Spikes terminal, from a few inches to more than 1 ft. long when in 

 fruit ; flowers and fruit usually very much crowded above, distant 

 below, usually alternate, shortly pedicellate ; bracts ovate- or oblong- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate or sometimes with a subulate 

 apex, \\- 2 lin. long (the lower sometimes up to 1 in. long), rigid, 

 concave, more or less pubescent, ciliate ; bracteoles linear to lanceolate- 

 triangular, 1-2 lin. long. Calyx 2-4 lin. long, 10-nervecl, 5-toothed,. 

 pubescent with long or very short hairs, hispid and often scabrid, 

 especially in fruit; teeth lanceolate-triangular to narrowly deltoid,, 

 acute or acuminate, \-\ lin. long, the uppermost sometimes smaller than 

 the rest. Corolla-tube 8|— \\ lin. long, narrowly cylindric, slightly 

 curved, glabrous or sparingly pilose ; lobes oblong to obovate, f— If lin. 

 long, -§- 1 lin. broad. Anthers acuminate. Style f— If- lin. long. 

 Capsule oblong, ovoicl or oblong-ovoid, slightly curved and compressed, 

 2-3J lin. long, apiculate. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Le-prieur, 8 ! Gambia, Broivn- Lester, 62 I 

 Ingram / 



Nile Land. Eritrea: Ginda, 3300 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Siva, 2121 ! Uganda- 

 Masai River, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6783 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. Portuguese East Africa : Bios de Sena, Peters. Maluia 

 Country ; Namuli Hills, Last ! Lower valley of tbe River Shire, Metier ! British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 476 ! between Mpata and the commence- 

 ment of the Tanganyika Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! Manganja Hills, Metier > 

 Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! 



We have not seen the type specimens of this species, but Klotzsch's description 

 required only some slight modification to include all tbe specimens cited. The species 

 is closely allied to B. hisplda, and may be only a more robust form of it. 



51. B. prorepens, Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Hxped. 

 368. A prostrate herb loosely branched from the base, glabrous on the 

 branches and leaves; branches very slender, terete, leafy, 12-16 in. long; 

 internodes 3|— 5 lin. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, oblong-lanceolate 

 or sometimes elliptic, 4-5 lin. long, 2-2 \ lin. broad, acute, cuneate at 

 the base. Flowers solitary in the axils of nearly all the leaves, shortly 

 pedunculate; peduncle about \\ lin. long; bracts 2, linear, 2J-3 lin. 

 long, J- £- lin. broad, acuminate. Calyx 3-3^ lin. long, rather densely 

 covered at the base with long whitish hairs, glabrous above ; teeth 

 narrowly lanceolate, \\ lin. long, acuminate. Corolla azure-blue; tube 



