506 xcv. gesnerace^e (baker and clarke). [S'trepiocarpus. 



2. S. tubiflos, C. B. Clarke in Dyer,Fl. Cap. iv. ii, 441. Stemless. 

 Leaf (permanent cotyledon) 1, subsessile, 12 by 7 in., crenate, hairy on 

 both surfaces ; nerves 20-30 pairs. Peduncles 1-3, hairy, 3-12 in. 

 long ; flowers numerous in a rather close much-branched cyme ; bracts 

 at the divisions J in. long, lanceolate, few or often ; pedicels often 

 1 in. long and upwards, hairy. Calyx-segments scarcely ^ in. long, 

 linear, hairy, without a gland at the tip. Corolla 1J in. long, pale blue ; 

 tube ; f in. long, cylindric, hairy ; corolla-lobes 5, oblique, two much 

 shorter. Filaments dilated, with many gland-tipped hairs at the top ; 

 pollen globose, 15 ft in diam. Pistil densely grey hairy, without (or 

 with very few) gland-tipped hairs. Capsule 3 by -^ in. — &'. Coopieri, 

 C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 150, partly; Engl, in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 3G2. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 99 ! anil without precise locality, Buchanan, 1088! 



Also in Natal. 



This plant resembles S. Saundersii. Hook, f., which has a wider corolla-tube 

 somewhat funnel-shaped at the top, leaves with fewer wider-apart nerves, and 

 ellipsoid pollen. 



3. S. breviflos, C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 443. Corolla 

 less than f in. long ; tube scarcely f in. long ; otherwise as S. tubiflos. — 

 S. Saundersii, var. breviflos, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr.. Phan. 

 v. 150. 



Kozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Naniasi, Cameron, 20 ! 

 Zomba, Whyte I and without precise locality, Buchanan, 108 ! 882 ! 

 Also in South Africa. 



4. S. benguelensis, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 150. 

 Stemless. Leaf (permanent cotyledon) 1, subsessile, 12 by 7 in., crenate, 

 shaggy above, very hairy beneath. Peduncles many-flowered. Elowers 

 violet-blue, as large as those of a fox-glove. Calyx-lobes \ in. long. 

 Capsule 1J-2 in. long, hairy. — Fritsch in Engler &, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 3 B. 151. S. rnonophylla, Welw. in Archiv. Geneve, xi. (1861), 

 202; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 789. ' 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguela; Monino River, Weltvitsch, 1660 ! 



Flowers not seen. Hiern says this species differs from S. Cooperi mainly by the 

 pubescence on the corolla ; the leaf appears much stouter and more shaggy, the 

 peduncle stouter and more hairy. It is close to »$'. Cooperi ; and, from the large 

 size of the corolla, differs from S. breviflos. 



5. S. katangensis, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Belg. xl. 25. 

 Stemless. Leaf solitary, 4 in. broad, densely tomentose on both sur- 

 faces. Peduncles 1 in. long, carrying compound many-flowered cymes. 

 Calyx-lobes -^-i in. long, linear. Corolla violet, densely hairy ; tube 

 § in. long ; limb very unequally 2-lipped. Ovary silky. — De Wild. 

 Etudes Fl. Katanga 127. 



South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga; Lukafu,7>>-<foV&, 249. 



