■Sopubia.] xcn. scrophulartace.e (hemsley and skan). 451 



linear or subulate, |— 4 liu. long. Calyx cup-shapecl, If- 24^ lin. long, 

 minutely puberulous and scabrid outside; teeth deltoid, about |~ 1 lin. 

 long, white pilose inside and on the margins, acute. Corolla 4^-5 lin. 

 long, 6-8 lin. in diam., pink, rose, rose with a dark purple centre or 

 reddish- brown ; lobes obovate, 2|— 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad. Perfect 

 anther-cell subellipsoid, 1£ lin. long. Style 3-4J- lin. long. Capsule 

 oblong-globose or ovoid-elliptic, 2^-2|- lin. long, 1-g— 24 lin. broad, 

 somewhat compressed, very slightly emarginate, shortly apiculate, 

 glabrous. Seeds linear, falcate or somewhat clavate, §-| lin. long. — 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. i. 773, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 386, 

 partly. >S'. dregeana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 522, partly. Raphido- 

 phyllum simplex, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 667. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Erimakuna, Scott-Elliot, 224! Gold 

 Coast : Afram "lains, Johnston, 727 ! Togo: Agome, Scldechter, 12959 ! Lagos : 

 interior, Rowland, 129 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter ! 



"Nile Land. Mittu : near Kuffutukku, Schweinfarth, 2809 ! Niamniani, 

 Schweinfarth, 2880! Uganda; Nandi, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6983 ! Elgon 

 District, James ! Busoga, 3900 ft., Daive, 98 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: GolungoAlto; mountains of Alto Queta. Welwitsch, 

 590-4! Ainbaca; between Izanga and Ngoinbe, Welwitsch, 5912! Malange, Goss- 

 tveiler, 1097 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Makua Country; Namuli, Last ! 

 British Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, Carson, 44 ! 100 ! Nyasaland ; various 

 localities, Meller ! Cunningham, 5! 17! Whyte ! Scott-Elliot, 8594! Kirk! 

 Rhodesia ; Mutabeleland, Bryce ! 



Also in South Africa. 



<S. simplex was considered by Bentham, in DC. Prodr. x. 522, synonymous with 

 S. dreyeana, Benth. The true S. simplex, however, as represented by numerous 

 specimens of which Kraus*, 400, is the type, is easily distinguishable from S. 

 dregeana (Drege, 4850b) by the very prominently angled many-furrowed less leafy 

 stems, the shorter adpressed leaves, the distinctly scabrid calyx, and the very much 

 longer seids. 



10. S. Buchneri, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 66. Stem up to 

 3J ft. high, simple or sparingly branched, somewhat terete, glabrescent. 

 Leaves subvertieellate (the many-leaved false whorls l|-lf in. apart), 

 narrowly linear, lj-lf in. long, \ lin. broad, scabrid, revolute on the 

 margin. Pedicels in false whorls 15-10 lin. apart, 7^-10 lin. long, 

 slender ; bracteoles filiform, short, approximate to the calyx. Calyx 

 about 2j lin. long; teeth semi-ovate, about 1 lin. long, acute. Corolla 

 rose, 1 in. in diam. ; lobes suborbicular, spreading, the larger 5 lin. long. 

 Perfect anther-cells 1-|— 2 lin. long. Style at first straight, afterwards 

 bent downwards. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Kitamba, Buchner, 5S9 ! Malange, Teuscz, 184. 



11. S. dregeana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 522, partly. Probably 

 not specifically distinct from *S'. trifida, the chief distinguishing characters 

 being that all the leaves in S. dregeana are entire ; the corolla is some- 

 what larger and the perfect anther-cells are l^lin. long. — S. Moore in 

 Journ. Bot. 1900, 468. S. simplex, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 



