566 xcvu. pedaline^ (stapf). [Pretrea. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : near Malindi, Allen, 157 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Kalolo, on the River Kubango, 3600 ft., Baum ! 

 German South-west Africa : Amholand : Olukonda, Rautanen, 275a ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, JBojer ! Boquett in Herb. Welivitsch, 1656- 

 German East Africa : Dar es Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1133 ! Portuguese East Africa : 

 opposite Mozamhique, Peters! Inhambane, Peters; Lower Zambesi; Sena, 

 Peters; Mouth of the Zambesi, Kirk ! Kongone River, Kirk, 334 ! Missongwe, 

 on the Loiver Zamhesi, Scott! Namuli Hills, Makua Country, Last! British 

 Central Africa: Lake S'nirwa, Kirk ! Mashonaland : Salisbury, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn 

 Cecil, 73! Bechuanaland : Leshumo Valley, Rolub, 710! 842! Ngamiland : 

 Botletle Valley, Lugard, 208 ! Shesheke, on the Zambesi, Rolub, 541 ! 542 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



10. LINARIOPSIS, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1060. 



Calyx small, 5-partite ; segments linear, the posticous much shorter 

 than the others. Corolla subobliquely campanulate ; limb oblique, 

 correct; lowest lobe longer than the others. Stamens 4, subdidyna- 

 mous, not converging ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed ; 

 cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally to the base. Disc annular, equal. 

 Ovary 1-celled, very imperfectly divided at the base ; ovules 2 from the 

 base, erect. Fruit ellipsoid, obtusely quadrangular, slightly dorsally 

 compressed, hard, indehiscent or very tardily dehiscent at the apex,. 

 and at right angles to the imperfect septum, with an acute keel over 

 the back of each carpel and a faint one over their commissures ; 

 tubercled between the keels. Seeds 2 or 1, obovate, margins narrowly 

 winged towards the base, faces smooth. — Perrenial, prostrate herbs. 

 Leaves small, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers rather small, violet, solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves. 



Species 1, endemic. 



1. L. prostrata, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 53. Root 

 cylindric or fusiform, as thick as a finger. Stem branched from the 

 base ; branches prostrate, up to \ ft. long, pubescent ; internodes 3-5' 

 lin. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, subobtuse at both ends, 

 up to 7 lin. long, 3-4 lin. broad, entire or sparingly and obscurely 

 dentate, ciliolate, densely covered below with white glands, other- 

 wise almost glabrous ; petioles very short or hardly any. Calyx If 

 lin. long, hairy, persistent. Corolla purplish with dark purple streaks 

 and spots in the throat, scarcely \ in. long. Fruit 2|— 3 lin. long. 

 Seeds rotundate-obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, If to almost 

 2 lin. long. — Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 264, fig. 

 97, H — K; 98, C ; Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; between Mumpulla and Humpata, 4000- 

 5000 ft., Welivitsch, 1659 ! on moors by the Kubango River, below Massaca, 4000 ft., 

 Baum, 286. 



Welwitsch describes the flowers as purplish, Baum as of a dirty yellowish-brown,, 

 Welwitsch's dried specimens combine both colours. 



