448 xcn. soROPnuLAKiACE^E (hemsley and skan). [Sopuhia* 



Leaves mostly in whoids of 8, usually trifid or sometimes with 4 or 5 

 segments ; segments narrowly linear, very scabricl, acuminate. Pedicels, 

 flowers and capsules as in S. ramosa. 



ITile Land. Abyssinia : without precise locality, Schimper, 695 ! British 

 East Africa or Uganda; between Kikuya and Eldama Ravine, Whyte ! 



Schimper's 1368, from the Dembea Plain, is allied to this, but it is much less 

 hairy, and the flowers are smaller, with longer pedicels. It seems intermediate- 

 between the above and S. trifida ; it is erroneously referred to S, ramosa in Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 383. 



4. S. karag'o.ensis, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc xxix. 123, t. 87, fig. B. 

 An elegant branched undershrub f-1 ft. high, puberulous on the stems 

 and branches ; branches ascending. Leaves mostly opposite, usually 

 with tufts of smaller ones in their axils, pinnatisecb, |— 1 in. long, 

 somewhat fleshy, the younger pilose ; segments 3-5, narrowly linear r 

 somewhat horny along the margins. Flowers in loose terminal racemes, 

 2-3 in. long. Pedicels 2-3 lin. long ; bracteoles narrowly linear, 3 lin. 

 long. Calyx 3|-3f lin. long, tomentose outside and inside; lobes 5, 

 ovate-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, rather more than 1 lin. broad at the base, 

 acuminate. Corolla rich pink, about 4 lin. long, 7-8 lin. in diam. ; 

 lobes suborbicular, 2-2^ lin. in diam. Perfect anther-cell oblong, If lin. 

 long. Style 3i lin. long. — De Wild. & Durand, Etudes Fl. Katanga, 

 126 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 191. 



Mile Land. Uganda : Kagera Valley, near Mulema, Bayshaive, 298. 

 Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa ; Karagwe ; hill-top, 5500 ft., Speke Sf 

 Grant, 411 ! 



South. Central. Congo Free State : Lukafu, Verdick ! 



5. S. Welwitschiij, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 66. An erect 

 rather robust herb, up to 2 ft. high ; stem branched or sometimes 

 simple, up to 2 lin. thick, long-pilose, at length more or less glabrescent, 

 leafy. Leaves subverticillate, trifid or simple and linear, 1-2 in. long,. 

 i— 1U lin. broad, shortly pubescent, somewhat scabricl, slightly revolute ; 

 segments linear, acute, the median longer than the lateral. Flowers in 

 an interrupted or almost uninterrupted spike up to 9 in. long. Brac- 

 teoles linear or linear-lanceolate, 2-3^ lin. long, acute, densely villous. 

 Calyx 3^-4j- lin. long, densely whitish villous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 2^-4 lin. long, 1-1-J lin. broad, acute or subacute. Corolla rose, 

 crimson in the centre, 4|— 6 lin. long, 6-8 lin. in diam. ; lobes sub- 

 orbicular or broadly obovate, 3-5 lin. long, 2|-5 lin. broad. Perfect 

 anther-cell oblong, lf-2 lin. long. Style 4-5|- lin. long, very sparingly 

 puberulous below. Capsule subglobose or ovoid, 2-2^ lin. long, l-i-2 

 lin. broad, glabrous.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 773 ; Engl. & 

 Gilg in Baurn, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 365. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; Serra Oiahoya, Welivitsch, 5841 ! Hum- 

 pata, Johnston! near Manonge, 4400 ft., Baum, 853! by the River Cunene, 

 Johnston ! 



Yar. micrantlia, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359. Segments of the leaves narrower. 

 Flowers smaller. 



