292 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ Linaria, 
Imperfectly known species. 
8. L. indecora, Franch. Sert. Somal. 55. Dwarf, glabrous, 
Branches slender. Leaves narrowly linear. Flowers minute, glabrous ; 
peduncles filiform, rather elongated. Corolla (including the spur) 
scarcely 2 lin. long ; spur rather thick, straight, acute. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: without precise locality, Réroi/. 
This is probably L. hastata, R. Br. 
9. L. stenantha, Franch. Sert. Somal. 55. A low very much- 
branched glabrous undershrub; branches slender, densely leafy, 
Leaves oblong, obtuse, attenuated at the base, quite entire, petiolate. 
Pedunceles filiform, long. Corolla (including the spur) 5 lin. long, 
narrow, pubescent ; spur elongated, straight, subulate. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: without precise locality, Révoil. 
9. ANARRHINUM, Desf.; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. 933. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube with or without 
a short spur at the base (spurless in the Tropical African species); 
throat equal, open; upper lip 2-lobed; lobes at first erect, then re- 
flexed ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascend- 
ing, included ; filaments filiform ; anthers reniform, with confluent cells. 
Style filiform; stigma small. Ovules numerous. Capsule small, ovoid 
or globose, often retuse, hard, dehiscing by 2 irregular apical sometimes 
contluent pores. Seeds ovoid, wingless, tuberculate or somewhat muri- 
cate.—Biennial or perennial usually erect herbs. Leaves often in a 
rosette at the base, and alternate, narrow, dissected or entire on the 
stem. Flowers small in spike-like often long virgate interrupted 
racemes.—Simbuleta, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 115. 
Species 12, natives of the Mediterranean region and the Orient, one extending 
into Tropical Africa. 
1. A. orientale, Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 289. A glabrous or 
puberulous branched erect undershiub 14-3 ft. high. Leaves $-1} in. 
long; radical leaves cuneate-oblong, incised-dentate, on long petioles; 
cauline leaves cuneate and incised-dentate, or divided nearly to the base 
into 3 linear or linear-lanceolate segments, or linear and entire, acute, 
attenuated at the base into a short petiole. Flowers in a branche 
rather dense spike-like raceme 6-12 in. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 
usually longer than the calyx; pedicels 4-1} lin. long. Calyx about 
1 lin. long ; segments 5 or 6, broad at the base, subulate above, hyaline 
at the margins and tips. Corolla 24 lin. long, not spurred. Capsule 
1} lin. long, ovoid, glabrous. Seeds tuberculate.—A. Rich. Tent. Fi. 
Abyss. ii. 115; Jaub. & Spach, Illust. Pl. Orient. v. 50, 54, 6. 4505 
Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 63. A. abyssinicwm, Jaub. & Spach, Le. v. 59, 52, 
tt. 447-449. A. arabicum, Jaub. & Spach, lc. v. 50, 51, t. 446. A. 
arabicum, var. abyssinicum, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 377; 
Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 138. A. fruticoswm, Schimp. 
