450 xcn. scrophulariacEtE (hemsley and skan). [Sopubia. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shireh, Quart in-D'dlon Sf Petit, 206! near San 

 Segal, Schirnper, 507 ! Niamniam : Nyanye, Sch'wei-nfurth, 3913 ! Bongo: Sabbi, 

 Schweinfurth, 2629 ! Uganda : various localities, Wilson, 43 ! Speke Sf Grant, 

 ■594 ! Whyte ! Bagshawe, 240 ! James ! Brown, 203 ! Scott-Elliot, 6S34 !' 7886 ! 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Dolo, Schlechter, 12487 ! Angola : Cazengo, 

 Gosstveiler, 685! 1098! base of Muxaula Mountains, Welwitsch, 5911! Pungo 

 Andongo ; San.-amanda, Welwitsch, 5864 ! in the Prsesidium near Cabundo, Wel- 

 tvitsch, 5865 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Bolobo and Lukolela, Buttner. Landa; 

 by the Lulua Biver, Pogge. 



Kozamb. Bist. German East Africa: Buihigga, Bagshawe, 529 A ! Usambaia; 

 Ms-huza, Hoist, 9124 ! British Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, Carson ! Nutt ! 

 Nvasaland ; various localities, Buchanan, 111 ! 414! 1497! 1504! Last! Meller ! 

 Kirk ! Cameron, 19 ! " Zambesiland," Kirk ! 



Baum's specimen 885, collected between Kuma and Kutsi in Angola, and 

 referred by Engler & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 365, to tins species, 

 •differs in being less branched, almost glabrous and less scabrid, leaves and flowers 

 usually not more than 2 at a node, leaves broader, and the calyx-teeth slightly 

 shorter and less acute. Gossweiler, 1096, from Malange, in Angola, resembles 

 Baum's specimen, but it has longer pedicels and much broader calyx-teeth. 



8. S. Mannii, Skan. An erect rigid scabrid branched herb 

 1-2 ft. high ; stems terete, often numerous and arising from a thick 

 woody stock, f-l^ lin. thick, puberulous, very densely leafy; internodes 

 2|— 3 lin. long. Leaves entire, usually in whorls of 3, most of the leaves 

 with short densely leafy branches in their axils, narrowly linear, up to 

 1 J in. long (usually 7-9 lin. long), J— | lin. broad, somewhat keeled on 

 the underside, acute, sparingly and shortly pubescent, scabrid especially 

 on the margin. Flowers very numerous, usually in whorls of 3, forming 

 terminal racemes 2-4 in. long. Pedicels 2-3 lin. long ; bracteoles 

 narrowly linear, lj-lj lin. long. Calyx 2£ lin. long, glabrous outside 

 and on the inside of the tube ; teeth narrowly deltoid, 1 lin. long, acute, 

 tomentose inside and on the margins. Corolla 4 lin. long, about 6£ lin. 

 in diam., mauve-pink ; lobes suborbicular, 2 lin. in diam. Anthers 

 coherent ; perfect cells oblong, 1 \ lin. long. Style 3| lin. long, pube- 

 scent. Capsule shortly oblong, 2J- lin. long, 1J lin. broad, slightly 

 emarginate, very shortly apiculate, glabrous. Seeds oblong, ^ lin. long. 

 — S. trifida, var. madagascariensis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 

 209, not of Benth. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 6000-11,000 ft., Mann, 

 1281 ! 2003 ! Johnston, 2 ! 



9. S. simplex, Hochst. in Flora, 1844,27. Apparently a perennial 

 herb, 1-3 ft. high or more, usually with several stems arising from a 

 w r oody base ; stems erect, simple or branched above, often very slender, 

 prominently angled, many-furrowed, minutely and sparingly pubescent, 

 sparingly or very sparingly leafy ; branches ascending. Leaves simple, 

 alternate or whorled (often ternate), usually closely adpressed, narrowly 

 linear, 2-12 (often 5-9) lin. long, revolute, scabrid on the margins and 

 midrib below. Flowers numerous, alternate or whorled, in loose ter- 

 minal racemes up to 1ft. long. Pedicels 1^-6 lin. long; bracteoles 



