276 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). | Anticharis. 
Leaves often broad, rather obtuse ; capsule 13 times 
as long as thecalyx. : : : . 38. A. glandulosa, 
Anthers coherent towards the apex. 
Peduncles without bracts : : : : . 4. A. ebracteata, 
Peduneles with bracts. 
Leaves crowded and imbricate . : : . 5. A, imbricata. 
Leaves more or less distant. 
Peduncles much longer than the flowers. . 6, A. aschersoniana, 
Peduncles as long as or shorter than the flowers. 
Leaves oblong, 3-1 in. long, about 5 lin. 
broad ; peduncles about 24 lin. long 
Leaves narrowly linear, 13-2 in. long, 3—3 lin. 
broad; peduncles about 5 lin. long. . 8. A. longifolia. 
1. A. linearis, Hochst. ex Aschers. in Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 
1866, 882. An erect much-branched glandular-pubescent annual, a few 
inches to more than a foot high, usually becoming blue-black in drying. 
Leaves up to 2 in. long, 1-1? lin. broad, sessile, linear to narrow, 
lanceolate, acute, attenuated at the base, sometimes glabrescent. 
Peduncles 3-7 (usually 6) lin. long; bracts 1-14 lin. long, opposite or 
subopposite, subulate, usually inserted above the middle of the peduncle. 
Calyx about 5 lin. long, deeply cleft; segments } lin. broad, linear, 
shortly acuminate. Corolla about 5 lin. long; lobes subequal. 
Anthers free, ciliate; basal lobes acuminate. Style shorter than the 
corolla-tube ; stigma bifid. Capsule 34-41 lin. long, nearly twice as 
long as the calyx, ovoid, acuminate or beaked.—Vatke in Oest. Bot. 
Zeitschr. 1875, 9; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 756; Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 250; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 423; Almagia in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, viii. 136. A. arabica, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 
347; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 119; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 
98, not of Endl. Doratanthera linearis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 347; 
Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 120; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
241. Distemon angustifolius, Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex Aschers. l.c. 889. 
Gerardiopsis Fischeri, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 359, and in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxili. 507. 
Upper Guinea. Bornu: Kuka, Vogel, 11! Senegambia, Leprieur! 
Senegal, Perrottet / 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! bank of the Nile north of 
Khartoum, Speke & Grant ! between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 445! 460! 
Kordofan ; near Obeid, Clenkowsky, Mount Arashkol, Kotschy, 59! 90! Bara, 
Pfund, 687! Darfur, Purdy, 16! Eritrea: near Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 
370! Samhar, near Massowa, Hildebrandt, 726!  Habab, Hildebrandt, 673, 
Abyssinia: Modat, near Ailet, Schimper, 1050! mountains near Gageros, 4000 ft.» 
Schimper, 2264! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Lake Chala, 3300 ft.» 
Volkens, 333 ; and without precise locality, Fischer, 119. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; Praia da Amelia and about Santo 
Antonio, Welwitsch, 5810! 
Also in the Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, and through Arabia to Western India. 
2. A. arabica, “indi. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 23. A slender erect branched 
shortly glandular-pubescent annual about 1 ft. high. ‘Leaves uP - 
14 lin. long, 1}-2} lin. broad, obJong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, 
st 
. A, inflata. 
