294  XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Schweinfurthia. 
Bay, Midir Island, Terracciano, 220. Massowa to Ras Gerar, Beccari ! Abyssinia : 
Shoho, Quartin-Dillon & Petit. Somaliland: without precise locality, Miss Edith 
Cole! 
Also in Arabia. 
2. S. aptera, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 96, wnder Antir- 
rhinum apterum, Vatke. A diffusely branched glabrous subshrubby 
annual 3-2 ft. high. Leaves narrowly linear or the lower sometimes 
spathulate linear, $-2 in. long, obtuse or acute, narrowed at the base, 
quite entire or very rarely the lower bidentate. Flowers solitary in 
the axils of the upper leaves; peduncles 5-8 lin. long, filiform, spread- 
ing. Calyx 14-1} lin. long; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 
about 34 lin. long, white tinted with rose. Capsule asin S. pterosperma. 
—-Anarrhinum pedicellatum, T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v., Suppl. 26. 
Wile Land. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains near Lasgori, 4900 ft., Hildebrandt, 
861! 
Also in South Arabia, Socotra, the Comoro Islands, and Bombay. 
11. ANTIRRHINUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 934. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube saccate or 
gibbous at the base, not spurred; upper lip erect, shortly 2-lobed ; 
lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, produced at the base into a prominent 
palate which often closes the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascend- 
ing, included; filaments filiform or dilated at the apex ; anther-cells 
distinct, oblong, parallel. Style filiform ; stigma small. Ovules numerous 
in each cell. Capsule ovoid or globose, sometimes oblique, with the 
pesticous cell dehiscing by one pore and the anticous cell by two many- 
toothed pores, sometimes equal with one pore to each cell. Seeds oblong, 
truncate, rugose or rather smooth.—Annual or perennial herbs, more 
varely undershrubs, sometimes climbing. Lower leaves alternate, 
rarely opposite, the upper alternate, all quite entire or rarely lobed. 
Flowers solitary, axillary or in terminal racemes; pedicels ebracteate. 
Corolla usually showy, rose-coloured, purple, pale-yellow or white. 
Species about 35, chiefly in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, 
especially in North America. 
1. A. Orontium, Linn. Sp. Pl. 617. An erect branched biennial, 
a few inches to 2 ft. high; stem and branches more or less glandular- 
hairy, especially in the upper parts, or glabrescent. Leaves 1-2 mn. 
long, 1-4 lin. (usually about 2 lin.) broad, lanceolate to linear, acute, 
subacute or obtuse, glabrous or sometimes remotely ciliate, entire. 
Inflorescence a rigid distant-flowered raceme; bracts similar to the 
upper leaves but smaller; pedicels very short, usually hispidly glan- 
dular-hairy, Calyx sparingly hispidly hairy ; segments 44-7 lin. long 
or sometimes longer, linear, unequal, acute. Corolla 4-9 lin. long, Tose 
coloured with purple veins, Capsule 4-6 lin. long, obliquely ovoid, 
hispidly hairy.—Benth. in DC. Prodr, x. 290; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
iv. 253; Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 63; Engl. Bot. ed. 8, vi. 131, t. 954; 
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