442 xcn. sceophulae,iace,e (hemsley and skan). [Pseudosopvhia. 



scarcely acute, entire ; midrib and venation very obscure. Flowers 

 about Jr in. long, solitary, axillary on slender bibracteolate pedicels 

 about as long as the leaves ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, acute, much 

 shorter than the calyx. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 5-ribbed, hispid, 

 3-3 J lin. long, somewhat unequally 5-lobecl ; lobes longer than the 

 tube, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, upper one largest. Corolla 

 pubescent, bilabiate, oblique ; tube cylindrical and narrow at the base, 

 ventricose above ; lobes of the limb rounded. Stamens included, 

 glabrous. Ovary and style hairy. Capsule glabrous, compressed, 

 narrowly winged above the middle, ciliolate, enclosed in the thickened, 

 tuberculate, persistent calyx. Seeds very numerous, irregularly cunei- 

 form and angular, \ lin. long, surface honey-combed and having a 

 metallic lustre in strong light. 



KTile land. British Somalihmd : Golis Range at Dnrra-as, 5000 ft.. Mrs. Lort 

 Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole ! 



3. P. kituiensis, Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 511. An almost glabrous 

 herb or undershrub, apparently of diffuse or trailing habit, with very 

 slender, flexible, quadrangular, more or less woody stems and branches. 

 Internodes usually about the same length as the leaves, sometimes 

 shorter, sometimes longer. Leaves mostly opposite or nearly so, thin, 

 very slightly scabrous, linear, |— 1 in. long, acute or obtuse, narrowed 

 at the base. Flowers solitary a little above the axils of the leaves, 

 usually with a small cylindrical gland between the leaf and the pedicel 

 and a smaller hemispherical one just above the pedicel. Pedicels very 

 slender, 4-5 lin. long. Bracteoles 2, linear, about 2 lin. long, some- 

 what spreading, attached a little below the calyx, persistent. Calyx 

 very slightly scabrous, campanulate, 2-|— 3 lin. long, nearly equally 

 5-lobecl; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly keeled, about as long as 

 the tube. Corolla slightly hairy inside, slightly hairy outside, glabrous 

 within, oblique, 6-7 lin. long, cylindrical at the base, then suddenly 

 inflated, nearly equally 5-lobecl ; lobes rounded. Stamens glabrous, 

 included. Ovary slightly hairy ; style glabrous ; stigma small. Capsule 

 not seen. — Sopubia kituiensis, Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 313. 



Nile land. British East Africa : Ukamba ; Kitui, Ililclebrandt, 2757 ! 



4. P. Hildebrandtii, Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 511. A scabrous 

 much -branch eel herb or undershrub, 1-2 ft. high. Branches slender, 

 quadrangular, rough with retrorse bristles tubercled at the base. 

 Leaves all opposite, linear-oblong, 3-10 lin. lon°f, acute. Flowers 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves and bracts, about ^ in. long. Pedicels 

 2 lin. long. Bracteoles 2, linear, close under the calyx and shorter than 

 the tube. Calyx scabrous with retrorse hairs, campanulate, 2-2|- lin. . 

 long, nearly equally 5-lobed ; lobes ovate, scarcely acute, somewhat 

 shorter than the tube, hairy on both sides. Corolla oblique, 7-8 lin. 

 in diam., hairy outside, glabrous within, inflated from the base ; limb 

 nearly equally 5-lobecl, lobes rounded. Stamens included, glabrous, 

 very similar to those of P. obtusifolia ; anthers shorter (?) than the 

 filaments. Ovary and lower part of the style pubescent. Style longer 



