456 XCII. SCROPHULARIACE/E (hEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Sopubid. 



without inflorescence. Leaves subverticillate, sessile, trifid about as far 

 as the middle, rarely bifid or entire, usually 5-10 lin. long, narrowly 

 linear, somewhat obtuse, involute on the margin, scabrid ; segments 

 narrowly linear, 2%-7-h lin. long, scarcely \ lin. broad. Flowers sessile 

 in dense cylindric terminal spikes up to 2 in. long and lh lin. broad ; 

 bracts dilated and concave below, trifid above, the uppermost entire, 

 about 5 lin. long, 2 J lin. broad below ; segments linear, 3 \ lin. long, 

 \ lin. broad; bracteoles ovate-spathulate, 3 lin. long, obtuse, with a claw 

 J lin. broad and a blade \\ lin. broad. Calyx 4-|- lin. long ; teeth ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2\ lin. long, ciliate. Corolla red ; tube 3 lin. 

 long, slightly and gradually dilated upwards; lobes very broadly obovate, 

 2 lin. long. Anthers soon becoming free ; perfect cells 1 lin. long. 

 Capsule ovoid, scarcely 2-^ lin. long, 2 lin. broad, somewhat compressed 

 at the apex, retuse ; valves entire. Seeds obiong or narrowly ovoid, 

 truncate, minutely scrobiculate, fuscous. 



Moaambi Dist. German East Africa : Mpororo; below Ruchigga, Bagshawe, 

 502! 



Imperfectly known species. 



23. S. Candei, Terracciano in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1892, 424. 

 Leaves simple or 3-partite, very long, rush-like, apiculate. Peduncles 

 geniculate and 2-bracteolate at the middle. Calyx-teeth obovate, 

 hyaline at the margin. Corolla 3 times longer than the calyx-teeth [or 

 calyx ?]. 



Wile land. Somaliland : Gerar-Amaden, Candeo. 



52. BAUMIA, Engl. & Gilgin Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 305, t. 9. 



Calyx narrow-campanulate, slightly constricted at the top of the 

 tube, about J in. long; tube strongly 10-ribbed ; lobes 5, nearly equal, 

 short, triangular. Corolla-tube cylindrical, not exceeding the calyx ; 

 limb about ^ in. across, nearly equally 5-lobed ; lobes rounded, reflexed. 

 Stamens 4, nearly equal, very shortly exserted ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers glabrous, free, one cell perfect, opening longitudinally, the other 

 much reduced, club-shaped. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled; ovules numerous 

 in each cell ; style glabrous, slightly overtopping the stamens, thickened 

 towards the tip, curved downwards, with a line of hairs on the under- 

 side of the curve. Capsule orbicular, compressed, enclosed in the calyx. 

 Seeds unknown. 



Species 1, endemic. 



There is little, if anything, beyond the free anthers to separate this from 

 Sopubia. 



1. B. angolensiSj Engl. <£• Gilg, I.e. 366. An erect slender hispid 

 annual herb, 9-12 in. high. Stem simple or slightly branched above 

 the middle. Leaves opposite, 1-2 in. long, deeply pinnatifid ; lobes 3-7, 

 linear, costate. Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, and in short, terminal spikes, about h in. long. Bracteoles 2, 



