jRhamphicarpa.] xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). 421 



linear. 1|- lin. long. Calyx campanulate, sparingly setulose, 2jlin. long, 

 1J lin. broad; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 1-J lin. long, recurved. 

 Corolla white ; tube about \ in. long, glandular-puberulous, somewhat 

 curved ; limb ^-h in. in diam. ; upper lip bifid ; segments shortly or 

 quadrately ovate; segments of the lower lip obovate. — Gycnium recur- 

 vum, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. 



IVIozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Karagwe, Speke Sf Grant ! Uniamwezi ; 

 Urambo, Hanningloii .' 



3. R. angolensis, Engl, in Engl. Jahvb. xviii. 74. An annual 

 erect herb, 2-3 ft. high, branched above, thinly covered with white, 

 rather long or short, sometimes glandular hairs ; stem obtusely tetra- 

 gonal, 4-furrowed, sparingly branched above. Leaves all opposite, 

 shortly petiolate, ovate or triangular, J-2J in. long, f-lj in. broad at 

 the base, pinnatisect or bipinnatisect ; segments narrowly linear, acute. 

 Fiowers solitary, opposite, in the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicels 

 1-1 1 lin. long, thick ; bracteoles subulate-linear, 3|-4 lin. long, attached 

 to the base of the calyx, ciliate at the base with long stiff hyaline hairs 

 covered with shorter hairs above. Calyx 10 lin. long ; tube cup-shaped, 

 10-ribbed, 2f- lin. long, If lin. broad, covered with long stiff hyaline 

 hairs ; lobes narrowly linear, 6|— 7|- lin. long, spreading, long-acuminate, 

 thinly covered with short adpressed hairs and some glandular ones. 

 Corolla milk-white, rosy at the throat and in the tube, the whole soon 

 turning bluish, at length blackish (Wehvitsch) ; tube 11 lin. long, about 

 1 lin. broad, minutely glandular-pubescent, curved below the middle; 

 limb 9-10 lin. in diam. ; upper lip obreniform, 4 lin. long, 8-i lin. 

 broad ; lobes of the lower lip orbicular-obovate, 5 lin. in diam. Style 

 2^ lin. long, thickened above. Capsule (immature) ovate, compressed, 

 |- in. long including the oblique beak. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 778. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; bank of the Lopollo River, Wehvitsch, 

 5780 ! 



4. R. Meyeri-Johannis, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 382. 

 Stems 2 or 3. If— 2 ft. long, rather slender, branched, ascending, arising 

 from a basal tuber, sparingly covered, as well as the branches and leaves, 

 with spreading or somewhat strigose hairs ; branches erect, 2|— 8 in. 

 long ; internodes 1—2^ in. long. Leaves all opposite, shortly petiolate, 

 ovate, piuiiatisect or bipinnatisect, 1-1|- in. long, f-ljin. broad at the 

 base ; segments linear, in 5 or 6 pairs, becoming gradually shorter 

 towards the apex, rather obtuse, the lower pinnatisect. Flowers soli- 

 tary, opposite, in the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicels J-lJlin. long; 

 bracteoles linear, 2-1—3 lin. long. Calyx 4-4J lin. long, densely covered 

 with slender rather short somewhat reflexecl hairs ; tube cup-shaped, 

 about 2^ lin. long, 2 lin. broad, 10-nerved ; lobes triangular, 1 1— 2 lin. 

 long, unequal, acuminate. Corolla- tube 7^-9 lin. long, 1J lin. broad 

 near the base, It. lin. broad in the upper part, slightly curved, minutely 

 glandular-pubescent; limb about 1 in. in diam. ; upper lip obreniform, 

 \ in. long, § in. broad ; lobes of the lower lip obovate-suborbicular, 5 lin. 



