Sopubia.) XCII. SC'ROPHULARIACE-aE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 447 



Jahrb. xxviii. 478, and xxx. 403 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 

 71 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 213 ; De Wild. & Durand, 

 Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 46 ; Engl. in : Schlechter, Westafr. 

 Kautsch.-Exped. 313, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 27; Hiern 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 388 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 302. Gerardia 

 ■Sopubia, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 210. 



Nile land. Soinaliland : Coromma ; near Burgi, Riva, 1335. Uganda, 

 4400-7000 ft. : Kavironjlo; Nandi to Mumias, Whyte ! Mau, Scott-Mliot, 6626! 

 British East Africa : Lykipia, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson ! Kikuyu, Scott-Elliot, 

 6685! 



South Central. Angola: Lunda; between the Lnashima (Luachim) and 

 Chiumljue Rivers, Marques, 317. Congo Free State : Bolobo ; Lukolela, Bilttner ■ 

 basin of the Lnlua ll'ivev, JPogge ; district of the cataracts, Laurent; Belem, 

 Demev.se ; near Bonga, at the mouth of the River Sanga, Schlechter, 12667. 



IMCozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Uliehe ; Uchungwe Mountains, 

 Goetze, 627 ; Upper Kondeland ; Usafua, G-oetze, 1079. British Central Africa : 

 Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! 



Also in South Africa, Madagascar, India, China, Philippine Islands and 

 Australia. 



Var. decumbens, Skan. Steins decumbent, only 3-6 in, Ions; - . — S. decumbens, 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 772, partly. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; near Lopollo, Welioitsch, 5S39 partly ! 



2. S. Eminii, Engl. Pfl. Osl-Afr. C. 359. An erect compact herb 

 1 ft. high or more, very much branched from near the base upwards ; 

 stem up to 2i lin. thick at the base, tapering upwards, terete below, 

 obscurely quadrangular above, sparingly and shortly jmbescent ; 

 branches opposite, slender, ascending, the lower as long as or longer 

 than the stem, leafy. Leaves opposite, pinnatisect or sometimes 

 bipinnatisect, up to about 1\ in. long, often with short leafy branches 

 in their axils ; segments very narrowly linear, usually 1 or 2 on each 

 side, revolute, scabrid. Flowers very numerous, small, opposite, in 

 loose terminal racemes up to about 4 in. long. Pedicels 3-4^ lin. lono-, 

 very slender ; bracteoles linear, 14_ lin. long. Calyx 1| lin. long, 

 glabrous except on the pilose margin of the teeth ; teeth ovate, # lin. 

 long, obtuse or scarcely acute. Corolla 3^ lin. long, 4 lin. in cliam. ; 

 lobes broadly obovate, 2 lin. long, 1^ lin. broad. Perfect anther-cell 

 narrowly ovoid, nearly 1 lin. long. Style 2 -J- lin. long. Capsule sub- 

 ovoid, lh lin. long and broad, slightly compressed, emarginate, shortly 

 apiculate, glabrous. Seeds \ lin. long, slightly curved, truncate at 

 both ends. 



Wile Land. Uganda: Kavirondo; 4th march from Mumias, Whyte! 

 IVXozamb. Hist. German East Africa : Ivome Island, in Lake Victoria, Stuhl- 

 viaim, 3582; Karagwe; Bukoba, StvMmann, 3848; Ihangiro, Stuhlmann, 3334 ! 



3. S. similis, Skan. Apparently a much dwarfer plant than S. 

 ramosa, Schimper's specimen being only 1 ft. high with several rather 

 slender stems arising from a short woody stock ; stems shortly 

 pilose, the hairs in lines alternating with the insertion of the leaves. 



