Anticharis.] XCIl, SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 279 
8. A. longifolia, Marl. & Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 252. An 
erect branched herb about 14 ft. high, everywhere covered with short 
glandular hairs ; branches 12-16 in. long, ascending. Leaves 14-2 in. 
long, $—? lin. broad, narrowly linear, somewhat acute, rather distant. 
Peduncles about 5 lin. long, slender; bracts small, linear. Calyx-tube 
very short ; segments 2 lin. long, | lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, Corolla 
3 in. long, blue with a dark-violet throat; tube campanulate, oblique 
in the upper part ; lobes short, suborbicular. Stamens slightly shorter 
than the corolla-tube; anthers curved, coherent, and ciliate at the 
apex. Style longer than the stamens. Capsule } in. long, oblong, 
conically attenuated. Seeds ovoid, obtuse at both ends, with many 
longitudinal ridges. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Usakos, 2950 ft., 
Marloth, 1422. 
4. VERBASCUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 928. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed or -partite, rarely 5-toothed ; lobes imbricate. 
Corolla rotate, rarely concave, with scarcely any tube; lobes 5, broad, 
slightly unequal, the posticous outside. Stamens 5, affixed to the base 
of the corolla ; filaments of the 3 posticous stamens or of all bearded ; 
anthers transverse or oblique, 1-celled by confluence. Style entire, 
compressed, dilated at the apex. Capsule globose, oblong or ovoid, 
septicidally 2-valved; valves usually 2-lobed, with inflexed margins 
exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds many, ovoid or oblong, 
rugose, wingless ; embryo straight.—More or less tomentose biennial 
or perennial herbs, or sometimes undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 
usually soft, entire, crenulate, sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid. Flowers 
in simple or branched terminal spikes or racemes ; pedicels usually very 
short, ebracteolate, solitary or fascicled. Corolla yellow, fuscous, purple 
or red, more rarely white. 
Species abont 160, chiefly in Europe, North Africa, West and Central Asia. The 
following belong to the section Lychnitis. 
Plant densely covered with a woolly tomentum . pe 16 Ternacha. 
Plant nearly glabrous . : : : ; 2 . 2. V. Schimperi. 
1, V. Ternacha, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 108. A 
biennial 2-3 ft. high or more, densely clothed with pale yellow or 
whitish woolly tomentum ; stem usually simple, erect, thick. Radical 
and lower cauline leaves up to 9 in. long, petiolate, oval or oblong, 
subacute or obtuse, crenate or serrate, narrowed at the base; petiole 
1~2 in. long, stout ; upper leaves much smaller, usually subamplexicaul, 
acute or acuminate, more or less crenate or serrate. Panicle 18 in. long 
or more, branched in the lower part ; branches 6—12 in. long, spreading ; 
bracts 4-1 in, long, ovate, acuminate. Flowers usually in small rather 
distant groups ; pedicels about 2 lin.long. Calyx 23-3 lin. long, deeply 
cleft ; segments lanceolate or narrow-ovate, acute or acuminate. 
Corolla ? in. in diam., yellow, tomentose outside. Filaments all bearded ; 
anthers reniform. Capsule 3} lin, long, ovoid, tomentose or here and 
