Entry for CELSIA brevipedicellata Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
CELSIA brevipedicellataEngl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376. —Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 356; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 189.
Information
Stem rather more than a yard high, simple, erect, leafy, sparingly pilose; lower internodes 1 1/2–2 in. long, the upper 3/4–1 1/4 in. long. Leaves oblong, obtuse, rounded at the base, biserrate, thinly pilose on the underside; lower leaves 1 1/4 in. long, 5–7 1/2 lin. broad, with a slender petiole 3/4 in. long; upper leaves 5–9 1/2 lin. long, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. broad, sessile. Bracts 2 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. broad, lanceolate, irregularly serrate. Pedicels 5 lin. long. Calyx-segments 2 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute. Capsule slightly longer than the calyx, ovoid.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Ruchigga, Bagshawe, 409; Kilimanjaro; in a wood by the Mue Brook, 5700–7500 ft., Meyer, 286.
Notes
A specimen (Volkens, 251) received from Berlin under this name has pedicels 7–8 lin. long and calyx-segments only 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long.
