512 xcv. gesnerace^e (baker and clarke). [Linnceopsis. 



7. LINN-aSOPSIS, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 482, t. 5. 



Calyx small, deeply 5-lobed. Corolla wide-campanulate from the 

 base ; limb oblique, unequally 5-fid. Stamens on the corolla, 2 anterior 

 fertile ; anthers 2, short, confluent. Disc oblique. Ovary oblong 

 obovoid, 2-celled ; placentas parietal, not meeting in the centre of the 

 ovary ; ovules very many. Stigma capitate. Ripe fruit not known. — 

 A creeping herb. Leaves distant, all (or nearly all ?) alternate. Peduncles 

 solitary from the leaf-axils, 1-7-flowered ; bracts at the divisions of the 

 cyme very small. 



Species 1, endemic. 



1. L. heckmanniana, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 483, t. 5. Stems 

 8 in. long, dividing, rooting at the nodes. Leaves (blade) round-ovate 

 | in. in diam., cordate, crenate, purplish on lower surface, thickly 

 clothed on both surfaces with white one-celled hairs ; nerves 5-6 pairs ; 

 petiole j in. long. Peduncles 3 in. long, clothed with many-celled 

 gland-tipped hairs ; bracteoles hardly -^ in. long, oblong ; pedicels \ in. 

 long. Calyx \ in. long ; lobes ovate-oblong, glandular-hairy. Corolla 

 white, 3- in. long, glandular-hairy. Stamens as of Streptocarpus. Ovary 

 glandular-hairy, in the figure, oblong, ^ byJ^-in. — General appearance 

 as of Linncea borealis, Linn. 



Mozaml). Dist. German East Africa : Uluguru ; Lukwangula Plateau, 

 500O-6UO0 ft., Goetze, 251. 



Order XCVI. BIGNONIACEJE. (By T. A. Sprague). 



Flowers hermaphrodite, usually more or less irregular. Calyx 

 inferior, gamosepalous, truncate, lobed or spathaceous. Corolla gamo- 

 petalous ; tube campanulate, funnel-shaped or tubular, often pilose at 

 the insertion of the stamens ; limb bilabiate, the 2-lobed posticous lip 

 usually overlapping the 3-lobed anticous lip in bud, more rarely regular. 

 Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, 4, didynamous, with a posticous 

 staminode, or 5, equal, very rarely 2 ; filaments filiform or flattened, 

 often thickened at the base ; anthers introrse, dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 lobes attached at the apex, parallel, divergent or divaricate. Disc 

 hypogynous, cushion-shaped, annular or cupular, rarely absent. Ovary 

 2-celled or, more rarely, 1 -celled with 2 parietal, often much intruded 

 placentas ; ovules numerous, anatropous ; style simple, filiform ; stigma 

 of 2 flattened lobes. Fruit a 2-valved loculicidal or septifragal capsule, 

 or fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds usually flat with a broad, often hyaline 

 wing ; embryo usually enveloped in a fine interior membrane (tegrnen) ; 

 albumen none ; cotyledons flattened, rarely folded ; radicle short, lateral 

 (very rarely superior). — Trees or shrubs, frequently twiners or climbers, 

 very rarely herbs. Leaves opposite, more rarely whorled or alternate, 

 usually compound with articulated leaflets, often cirrhiferous ; stipules 



