Linaria.| —__XCII. SCROPHULARIACEZ (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 291 
Surth & Riva, 551! and various localities, Terracciano & Pappi. Abyssinia: with- 
out precise locality, Salé! Somaliland: Wagga Mountain, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 
Also in Socotra. 
6. L. asparagoides, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.99 and 241. A 
glabrous undershrub. Stem erect, very much branched from the base ; 
branches very long and slender. Leaves 14-2 in. long, }-1 lin. broad, 
narrowly linear, flaccid, sessile, gradually attenuated towards the base. 
Peduncles up to 4 in. long, capillary. Calyx 1 lin. long; segments 
lanceolate-subulate, very acute. Corolla including spur about } in. 
long; lower lip twice as long as the upper; spur 1} lin. long. Seeds 
tuberculate. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Gageros, 4000 ft., Schimper; and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 442 ! 
7. L. sagittata, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6060. <A slender diffusely 
branched subscandent perennial, glabrous on the branches, leaves and 
peduncles; stem short, thick; branches terete, woody at the base, 
sometimes almost leafless. Leaves from a few lines to 2 in. long by 
3-3} lin. broad, narrowly linear to linear-oblong or lanceolate, sagittate 
or hastate or sometimes cuneate or rounded at the base, entire, acute, 
rarely obtuse ; petiole 1—6 lin. long, sometimes tendril-like. Flowers 
distant, axillary ; peduncles 5-8 lin. long. Calyx 2 lin. long, glabrous 
or glandular-pubescent ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, more or less 
Scarious on the margins. Corolla(including thespur) 9-10 lin. long, yellow, 
pilose outside ; palate clothed with long citron-yellow hairs ; spur about 
Zin, long. Filaments densely pilose. Capsule shorter than the calyx, 
globose, glabrous. Seeds tuberculate.—Z. heterophylla, Steud. Nom. 
ed. i. 482 ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 790; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 270, not of 
Desfont. Z. patula, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 222. Antirrhinum 
heterophyllum, Schousboe, Beobacht. Gewichsr. Marokko, 181, t. 3. A. 
sagittatum, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 19. Z. gracilis, R. Br. in Salt, 
Abyss. Append. 64, and ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 269; Almagia in 
Ann. Istit. Bus. Roma, viii. 137. Z. gracilis, var. propinqua, Benth. l.c. 
v. 270. L. propingua, R. Br. 1.c. 64. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent!  Otao, Johnston, 10! Mount 
Uaratab, Schweinfurth, 235! Wadi O-Mareg, Schweinfurth, 438! Eritrea : Habuab, 
Hildebrandt, 447! Addi Conzi and Haichello Rokob, near Acrur, Schweinfurth & 
Riva, 1169! 1106! Mount Alam Kale, Schweinfurth 5 Riva, 1655! various 
localities, Terracciano & Pappi. Abyssinia: without precise locality, Salt! 
Somaliland: near Wadaba, Miss Edith Cole; Mrs. Lort-Phitlips ! 
Also in North Africa, Arabia, and the Canary Islands. 
Many of the specimens cited above have been named L. macilenta, Decne., rr 
Species apparently confined to the Sinai Peninsula. This has a different habit, 
much shorter peduncles, minut: flowers, and much smuller capsules. 
very polymorphic in habit, shape and size of the leaves, and in the length of the 
peduncles. 
L. sagittata is 
