582 
Sul and Montevideo, Sello. Herpéstis glechomoides, Spreng. 
syst. 4. p. 234. 
Cuneated-leaved Geochorda. 
Pl. creeping. 
Cult. 
For culture and propagation see Wulfénia, p. 581. 
Tribe VI. 
BUCHNE'REZ (this tribe contains plants agreeing with 
Buchnéra in the characters given below.) D. Don, in edinb. 
phil. journ. vol. 19. July 1835. Benth. in Hook, comp. 1. 
p. 356. Calyx tubular, striated, 5-cleft, or 5-toothed. Co- 
rolla salver-shaped ; limb 5-cleft, or unequally 4-cleft, some- 
times bilabiate; segments all flat. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
ascending, rarely only 2, approximate ; anthers usually 1-lobed 
from the cells being continuous, with a thick, elevated connec- 
tive. Stigma undivided. Capsule 2-valved; valves entire, or 
bifid, rarely fleshy and indehiscent; dissepiment simple. Pla- 
centa narrow, columnar, adnate, longitudinally, or at length 
free. Seeds minute, smooth, or scrobiculate ; testa membran- 
ous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo much shorter than the seeds. 
—Herbs or sub-shrubs mostly native of the Cape. Leaves 
opposite, or alternate. Flowers terminal, spicately racemose, 
white or red. 
LXXV. STRIGA (so named from the strigose habit of 
some species.) Lour. coch. p. 22. Benth. in Hook, comp. 1. 
p. 961. Buchnéra species, Lin. and other authors.— Campa- 
nuléia, Pet. nov. gen. mad. p. 23. 
Lin. syst. Didynàmia, Angiospérmia. Calyx short, tubular, 
with 5-15 elevated ribs, and membranous between the ribs, 5- 
toothed, or semiquinquefid at apex, rarely 4-toothed by abor- 
tion; teeth generally subulately acuminated. Corolla salver- 
shaped, with a slender tube, which is abruptly incurved in the 
middle, or above the middle; limb bilabiate, the upper lip usu- 
ally shorter, entire, emarginate or bifid : lower lip trifid. Stamens 
didynamous, inclosed. Capsule straight; valves somewhat co- 
riaceous, entire, dehiscing elastically at maturity, septiferous in 
the middle.—Scabrous, Asiatic, and African herbs, becoming 
blackish on drying, sometimes parasitical in the manner of 
Orobánche. Lower leaves opposite: superior ones alternate, 
sometimes scale-formed, usually linear, quite entire, rarely few- 
toothed : floral ones conform to the others, but becoming gradu- 
ally smaller as they ascend. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, 
disposed in terminal spikes, generally minutely bibracteate. 
Corolla white, purplish, or red. 
* Leaves scale-formed. 
1 S. onosAxcuroipes (Benth, l. c. p. 361. t. 19.) glabrous, 
branched; leaves minute, scale-formed : floral ones lanceolate, 
shorter than the calyx. t. S. Native of Senegambia, End- 
licher; Abyssinia, Brown ; south-east Africa, in the district of 
Uitenhage, Ecklon; to Delagoa Bay, Forbes; East Indian Pe- 
ninsula, Wight, and plains as far as Saharumpur, Royle. Buch- 
néra orobanchioides, R. Br. Endl. in bot. zeit. 1832. 2. p. 388. 
t. 2. Benth. scroph. ind. p. 40.  Buchnéra Hydrabadénsis, 
Roth, nov. pl. 292. Buchnéra gesnerioides, Willd. spec. 3. p. 
338. Orobanche Indica, Spreng. syst. 2. p. 816, but not of 
Roxb. Plant parasitic. Root tuberous. Scales and bracteas lance- 
olate. Calyx 4-5-cleft. Corollas white, or pale yellow. Stem 
none, unless the unbranched portion of the scape may be con- 
sidered as such; it is covered by scales. The whole plant is 
covered with short stiff hairs. Flowers sessile, surrounded by 
3 bracteas. 
Orobanche-like Striga. PI. 1 foot. 
* * Leaves elongated. Calyx with 5 elevated stripes. Corolla 
incurved towards the apex. 
2 S. numiru'sa (Benth. l. c. p. 362.) prostrate, scabrous ; 
SCROPHULARINEA. LXXV. Srrica. 
leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse; spikes short, few-flowered ; calyx 
5-striped ;? tube of corolla glabrous. Y. G Native of Ara- 
bia, on the mountains of Hadge, Forsk. Browállia humifüsa, 
Forsk. pl. egypt. arab. p. 12. Buchnéra humifüsa, Vahl, symb, 
8. p. 81. The form of the leaves and procumbent stem, Ben- 
tham says, will distinguish this from all other species, notwith- 
standing he has not been able to ascertain whether the calyx be 
5-ribbed or not, from the specimens he has examined being so 
imperfect. E 
Trailing Striga. Pl. trailing. 
3 S. parvirto’ra (Benth. 1. c.) small, very scabrous ; leaves 
linear, quite entire, strict ; calyx 5-striped ; corolla downy, with 
an entire upper lip, which is hardly half the length of the lower 
lip, X. G. Native of New Holland, on the east coast, in 
Keppel Bay. Buchnéra parviflora, R. Br. prod. p. 294. Plant 
but little branched. Flowers smaller than those of other 
species. 
Small-flowered Striga. Pl. small. 
4 S. a’spera (Benth. |. c.) leaves linear, quite entire, strict, 
and are, as well as the branches, covered with callous tubercles, 
and ciliated with rigid spreading hairs ; calyx 5-striped ; corolla 
glabrous, with an elongated, slender tube, and an emarginate 
upper lip, which is about half the length of the lower lip. %. 
S. Native of Guinea. Euphràsia aspera, Willd. spec. 3. p. 
197. Buchnéra áspera, Schum. pl. guin. p. 280. This differs 
from S. pusilla in the flowers being twice the size, and in the 
more regular and greater hispidity of the plant. 
Rough Striga. Pl. 3 foot. 
5 S. cURVIFLO`RA (Benth. l. c.) very scabrous ; leaves long- 
linear, quite entire, spreading a little; calyx 5-striped ; tube of 
corolla pubescent ; upper lip retuse, thrice as short as the lower 
lip, which is tripartite. 4.S. Native of New Holland, on the 
north coast, within the tropic, and of Java, ex Blum. bijdr. 740. 
Buchnéra curviflóra, R. Br. prod. p. 294. Allied in habit to 
S. euphrasioides and S. coccinea, and differs from the first by the 
calyx, and from the last by both calyx and corolla. 
Curved-flomered Striga. Pl. 4 to 1 foot. 
6 S. wuLTiPLO'RA (Benth. l. c. p. $63.) scabrous, much 
branched; leaves long-linear, spreading; spikes long, loose; 
calyx 5-ribbed; corolla glabrous; upper lip bifid, a little 
shorter than the lower one, which is tripartite. 2. S. Native 
of New Holland, of the Islands west of Goulbourn’s Island, on 
the north coast, Cunningham. Distinct in the long decumbent 
habit, and in the form of the flowers, which are the size of those . 
of S. coccinea. 
Many-flowered Striga. Pl. decumbent. 
7 S. neNsrFLO'RA (Benth. 1. c.) humble, rather glabrous, very 
scabrous ; leaves lanceolate-linear, somewhat squarrose ; flowers 
dense, approximate ; calyx ovate, 5-striped ; corollas glabrous; 
upper lip emarginate, 2 or 3 times shorter than the lower lip. 
Y.S. Native of the Indian Peninsula, Heyne; and the plains 
of India as far as Saharampur, Royle. Buchnéra Asiatica, 
Vahl, symb. 3. p. 81.? Lin. spec. 879. part. Buchnéra densi- 
flòra, Benth. scroph. ind. p. 41. Plant small, rigid, but little 
branched, in some respects resembling S. Thunbérgii. Flowers 
smaller; the lobes of the limb shorter and broader. It also 
differs from that species in the remarkably spreading, often 
recurved leaves. 
Dense-flowered Striga. PI. 1 to 1 foot. 
8 S. THunse’rem (Benth. 1. c.) hispid, scabrous, strict, nearly 
simple; leaves lanceolate-linear, erect: floral ones lanceolate, 
adpressed, the middle nerve beneath, and margins ciliately his- 
pid; spike dense; calyx 5-striped; tube of corolla downy, 
recurved and inflated at top ; lips of limb nearly equal: lobes 
oblong. X. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in the 
district of Uitenhage, and in Caffreland, and Tambukiland, Eck- 
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