Rhamphicarpa.] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). 42'J 



l£-3 (sometimes up to 4) lin. long, often elongating after flowering, 

 acuminate. Corolla pink, purple or white ; tube |— 1 in. long, curved, 

 glandular-puberulous ; limb |— 2 (usually 1—1^) in. in diam. ; upper 

 lip -1—7 lin. long, 4-11 lin. broad, more or less deeply two-lobed ; lobes 

 of the lower lip obovate, 2-|— 8 lin. long and broad. Style 2-3 lin. long, 

 thickened above. (Japsule obliquely ovoid, J— \ in. long and broad, 

 somewhat compressed, beaked. — DO. Prodr. x. 504 ; Hiern in Dyer, 

 Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 399. R. curviflora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 

 .368. R. serrata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 228 ; Vatke in 

 Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 11. Gerardia tubulosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 279. 

 Cycniuriitubulosum^ngl. PH. Ost-Afr. C. 361. C. serratum, Engl. I.e. 360. 



Wile Land. Uganda : 4th March from Numias, Whyte! Eldama Ravine and 

 Mau, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte ! and without precise locality, Wilson, 121 ! British 

 East Africa : around Nairobi, Whyte ! Machakos to Kikuyu, 5000-6000 ft., Scott- 

 Mliot, 6598 ! 



Lower Guinea, German South- west Africa : Amboland ,- Ombandya country, 

 Schinz, 45 ! between Uukuambi and Ondonga, Schinz ! 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ugalla River, Boehm, 127 ; Isimbiri, 

 Boehm, 69 ; between Meru and Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 1612 ; Usagara Mountains 

 Kirk! between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukua, 6000 ft., JSfutt ! Portuguese 

 East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Pettrs ; Quilimane, Scott! near Muata Manja, 

 3000 ft., Kirk! Luabo River, Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; various 

 localities, Carson! Scott- Elliot, 8500 ! Buchanan, 113 ! Waller! Metter ! Whyte! 

 Kirk! Cunningham, 16 ! Buchanan, 1343 ! Moero Plateau, Carson, 16! Rhodes a : 

 by the Zambesi, near Victoria Fall?, Allen, 34! Mashonaland, Bryce ! Ngami- 

 land : near the Zouga, Tamalakane and Chobe Rivers, McCabe, 6 ! Okavango Valley, 

 3000 ft., Lugard, 271 by the Botletle River at Matabele Drlft,Zugard, i ! 



M. tubuloia is evidently an extremely variable species. We have not seen the t\ pe 

 of R. serrata, Klotzsch, but the description agneswith several specimens at Kew 

 which we cannot satisfactorily separate from E. tubulosa. Engler (Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 360-361) has given names to some extreme forms. 



20. R. hamata, Skan. A herb 16-24 in. high; stem straight, 

 erect, simple or sparingly branched, nearly glabrous ; internodes lg-3 in. 

 long. Leaves sessile, linear, 15-22 lin. long, 1-1^ lin. broad, acute or 

 very acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, remotely and sparingly 

 toothed (2 or 3 teeth each side), glabrous, horny especially on the under 

 side ; upper leaves narrowly linear, up to 1 in. long, f lin. broad, entire, 

 always distinctly hocked-revolute. Floweis few, axillary near the apex 

 of the stem or branch. Pedicels 6-10 lin. long; bracteoles 0. Calyx 

 4-5 lin. long, tuberculate chiefly on the lobes ; tube campanulate, 2 lin. 

 long; lobes lanceolate-linear, 2-3 lin. long, very acute, spreading. Corolla 

 rose; tube 10 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, cylindric, distinctly curved, shortly 

 glandular-pilose; limb 13-14 lin. in diam.; upper lip J in. long, f- in. 

 broad, 2-lobed ; lobes of the lower lip obovate-orbicular, 6-7 \ lin. long, 

 5-7 lin. broad. — Cycnium hamatum, Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene- 

 Samb. Exped. 368. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : near the mouth of the River Quatiri, 3600 ft., 

 Baum, 403 ! 



21. R. aquatica, Skan. Stem glabrous, up to 3J ft. high; 

 branches erect, 12-16 in.. long; internodes 2|— 4-J- in. long. Leaves 



