420 xcn. sceophulariace^: (hemsley and skan). [Rhamphicarpa . 



about 1 ft. high ; stem more or less distinctly quadrangular, glabrous ; 

 branches erect-spreading. Leaves pinnatisect or sometimes bipinnati- 

 sect, up to 3 in. long ; segments 2-4 or sometimes more on each side, 

 often opposite, narrowly linear, somewhat obtuse, the lower usually 

 \- f in. long, the upper shorter, densely covered along the margins with 

 minute whitish callosities. Pedicels |— 1 \ (often |— f) in. long, erect- 

 spreading, somewhat rigid ; bracteoles 2, narrowly linear, f-lj lin. long, 

 often opposite, at or near the middle of the pedicels. Calyx broadly 

 •earn pan ulate, 2J- 3J lin. long and about as broad; tube |— f lin. long ; 

 lobes erect-spreading, ovate to lanceolate, subulate-acuminate at the 

 apex, glabrous except for a few whitish callosities. Corolla white, 

 1-lf- in. long, minutely and sparingly pubescent, very thin; tube 

 straight, about ■§ lin. broad in the lower part, about 1J lin. broad at the 

 apex; limb 5-9 lin. in diam.; lobes suborbicular, 2-3 \ lin. in diam. 

 Capsule ovoid, very much compressed, 4-5J lin. long without the beak, 

 3-4 lin. broad, almost 2-winged ; beak straight or nearly straight, 3—4 

 lin. long. Seeds oblong, about \ lin. long ; testa coarsely reticulate. — 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 133 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 100 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 480 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 778, and in Dyer, FL Cap. iv. ii. 398; 

 De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 45 ; S. Moore in 

 Journ. Bot. 1 900, 468. R. hngiflora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 i. 368, partly, not of Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 504 ; Durand &■ Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 211 ; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moy en-Congo, 

 i. 74. Macrosiphon Jistulosus, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 374. M. elo>fi- 

 gatus, Hochst. I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal: St. Louis Island, Leprieur ! Northern Nigeria: 

 Nupe ; Jeba, oa the Niger, Barter, 1713 ! 



Nile land. Nubia : island in the Nile near Dabbe, Ehrenherg. Abyssimia : 

 Shireh, Petit ! Quartiii-Dillon ; near Gapdia and Gafta, Schimper, 826! near 

 Sanka-Berr, Schimper, 1220! Kordofan : Mount Arashkol, Kotschy, 77a! 77b! 

 and without precise locality, Kotschy, 63 ! Gaztlle River, Schweinfurth, 47 ! 1139 ! 

 Meshra, Schweinfurth, 1231 ! Uganda : Madi, Speke Sr Grant ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : between Leopoldville and Mombazi 

 (Mbasi), Glllet ; Lusambo, Duchesne. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; banks of the River Cuanza, near 

 Cavallo, Welwitsch, 5889 ! Mata Lucala, Welwitsch, 5862 ! 5889b ! Lower Congo : 

 Stanley Pool, Hens, 96 ! Schlechter, 12557 ! and without precise locality, Smith ! 



Mozamb. Eist. German East Africa : Uhehe ; near Maktnera, Goetze, 709 ! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Umbaka River, Scott ! Nyika Plateau, 8000 ft. 

 McClounie, 96 ! near Mount Chiradzulu, Cameron, 100 ! Rbodesia : Huluwayo, Rand , 

 387. 



Also in Madagascar and South Africa. 



2. R. recurva, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122, t. 87, Jig. A. 

 An erect branched slender annual herb about 1 ft. high ; stem some- 

 what woody, obscurely quadrangular ; branches hilariously strigillose. 

 Leaves pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, opposite or the upper alternate, 

 about 1 in. long, the floral shorter ; segments narrowly lanceolate, 

 scabrid with white points. Pedicels 1 lin. long ; bracteoles narrowly 



