JSopubia.] xcn. scropiiulariaceje (hemsley and skan). 453 



Corolla about 3-h lin. long and 6 lin. in diam. ; lobes suborbicular, about 

 1 1- lin. in diam. Perfect anther-cells ellipsoid, 1|- lin. long. Style 2^- lin. 

 long. Capsule subglobose or obovoid, If lin. long, li lin. broad. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; among the Serra de Neva Mountains, in 

 Morro cle Lopollo, 5000-6000 ft., Welwitsch, 5845 ! 



14-. S. angolensis, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 67. A somewhat 

 robust erect branched herb or undershrub about 2 ft. high, whitish 

 silky-tomentose nearly everywhere; stem terete, about 1\ lin. in diam. 

 and woody at the base, branched above. Leaves mostly in false whorls 

 ■of usually 4, linear, 1-lf in. long, -|— | lin. broad, acute, entire. 

 Flowers in loose terminal racemes, usually subopposite or in false 

 whorls of 3 or 4. Pedicels li- 4 -J- lin. long ; bracteoles narrowly 

 linear, 1J lin. long. Calyx 2| lin. long, bearing inside numerous small 

 ■orange-coloured excrescences, densely whitish silky-tomentose outside 

 and on the upper part of the teeth inside ; teeth deltoid, f- lin. long, 

 acute. Corolla reddish purple or bluish purple, 3i--4 lin. long, 5-6 lin. 

 in diam. : lobes broadly obovate, 2-2^- lin. long, 2-2^ lin. broad. 

 Anthers coherent; perfect cell ellipsoid, 1^- lin. long. Style about 5 

 lin. long, pubescent below. Capsule shortly oblong, 2 lin. long, 1-J- lin. 

 broad, densely pilose, rounded or somewhat truncate at the apex. — 

 *S'. cana, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 774, not of Harvey. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Welwitsch, 5843! Ivantala, Welwitsch, 

 5S44! 



This differs somewhat in habit from S. cana, Harvey, is less densely tomen- 

 tose, and markedly different in its capsules, which are glabrous and emarginate at 

 the apex in S. cana. 



15. S. Eenii, S. Jloore in Joum. Bot. 1900, 4:62. Plant minutely 

 lepidote-tomentose, becoming almost glabrous ; stem f— lir lin. in diam., 

 tetragonal, erect, branched, leafy, internodes mostly about 5-7i lin. 

 long. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, 7|— 12 lin. long, 1J--2 lin. 

 broad, obtuse or obtusely acute, entire or more rarely minutely denticu- 

 late, membranous-coriaceous, at length almost glabrous above. Pedicels 

 opposite or rarely ternately verticillate, 2-^-5 lin. long ; bracteoles 

 linear, acute, 1 lin. long, inserted near the middle of the pedicel. 

 Calyx 2f lin. long ; teeth oblong, 1 lin. long, about h lin. broad, very 

 obtuse. Corolla about 4 lin. long and 5 lin. in diam. ; lobes obovate, 

 2J lin. long and scarcely as broad. Capsule oblong, 2 lin. long, 

 emarginate. Seeds ovoid, scarcely A- lin. in diam. — Hiern in Dyer, PJ. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 388. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Dammaraland, JEen 1 

 Also in South Africa. 



16. S. leprosa, S. Jloore in Joum. Bot. 1900, 468. Plant closely 

 and minutely lepidote-tomentose on all the young parts except the 

 flowers ; stem straight, 1-1 h lin. in diam., subterete, branched, glabrous 

 when mature ; internodes mostly 5-7i lin. long ; branches ascending, 

 ■densely leafy. Leaves opposite or very rarely approximate in whorls, 

 -narrowly linear, 7^-12 lin. long, h-l lin. broad, obtusely acute, quite 



