Cycnium.] xcn. scrophulariace,e (hemsley and skan) 431 



Calyx 12 lip. long ; corolla-tube 1-1£ in. long; 



limb 6o-7^ liti. in diam. . . 5. C. brachycalyx. 



Stems quite erect ; flowers racemose ; corolla-tube 



10-12 lin. long . . . . . 6. C. questieauxianum. 



* * Calyx slit on one side. 



Stems and underside of the leaves fulvous-tomen- 



tose ; corolla-tube up to 2\ in. long . . 7. C. tomentosum. 



Stems and leaves shortly hispid ; corolla-tube 1£ 



in. long . . . . . . . 8. C. erectum. 



1. C. adonense, E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. C'omp. Bot. Mag. i. 

 (1835), 368. A pubescent scabrid perennial robust herb with strong 

 fibrous roots ; stems often branched from the somewhat woody base 

 procumbent or ascending, from a few inches to a foot long or more, 

 leafy. Leaves usually opposite, shortly petiolate or sessile, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 (usually 2) in. long, f-1 in. broad, serrate, 

 crenate-serrate or incised-dentate, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse 

 cuneate at the base. Flowers axillary. Pedicels 2-12 (often 4-6) lin. 

 long ; bracteoles linear, 2-|— 4 (rarely up to 8 J) lin. long. Calyx tubular, 

 J- If (usually about 1£) in. long, 3-3J lin. broad at the top of the tube, 

 often densely covered on the ribs with somewhat deflexed hairs and 

 pulverulent or puberulous between the ribs, 10-12-ribbed ; tube 7-12 

 lin. long; lobes oblong to lanceolate-triangular, rarely deltoid-ovate 

 3£- 8 lin. long, rarely 2 lin. long or less, \-l\ lin. broad, usually acute 

 or shortly acuminate. Corolla white or lilac, often blackish when dry ; 

 tube 2|— 3 in. long, gibbous \-% in. from the limb, glandular-pilose; 

 limb 2-3 in. in diam. ; upper lip about 1 in. long and \\ in. broad, 

 deeply emarginate ; lobes of the lower lip suborbicular broadly obovate, 

 11-14 lin. long, 10-13| lin. broad. Style |~£ in. long, much flattened 

 in the upper part. Capsule ovoid or elliptic, 6-7|- lin. long, 4£ lin. 

 broad, fleshy, indehiscent ? obtuse. — Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 505 ; 

 Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122, t. 88 ; Britten in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 29 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 479 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 212 ; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 395. 

 G. adoense, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 969 ; S.Moore in Journ. Bot. 

 1900, 468, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 191. C. longiflorum, 

 Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122. Cycnium sp. n., 

 T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, Append. 642. 



Nile Land. Nile, PethericJc ! Uganda : Madi, SpeJce <$f Grant ! Nandi, 

 7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7053 ! Mulema, Bagshawe, 229 ! Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 

 2 ! and without precise locality, Wilson, 71 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Kassai River ; Koango, Bilttner. 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ukami; between Mgeta and Mbakana, 

 Goetze, 341 ; bed of the Mgasi. Goetze, 140 ; Uhehe ; Muhinde Steppe, Goetze, 

 515 ; Urundi, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8208 ! higher plateau north of Lake Nyasa 

 Thomson! Portuguese East Africa: Makua Country; Namuli Hills, Last! near 

 Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 448 ! Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! British Central 

 Africa: Urungu; Ywnmbo, Carson, 121 1 Tanganyika Plateau, Carson ! Nyasaland; 

 various localities, Purves, 64 ! Whyte, 71 ! 284 ! Kirk ! Waller ! Metier ! Scott- 

 Elliot, 8502! Buchanan, 32 ! 84! 1000! 1340! Scott! Rhodesia: Buluwayo, 

 Rand. 161 ! 



