Antirrhinum.| XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 295 
Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 205. A. Orontiwm, var. abyssinicum. 
Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 114; Engl. Hochgebirgsil. 
Trop. Afr. 377 ; Almagiad in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 138. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! Eritrea: Mount Kube, Schwein- 
furth §& Riva, 1539! Mount Deban, Beceari, 266! and various localities, Terrac 
ciano & Pappi, Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 105! Debra Eski, Schimper, 
89; Bellaka, Schimper, 416. Hawash and Maki Rivers, Wellby! and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 893! 1869! 
Widely spread in Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Canary Islands, Socotra, 
Mauritius, and South Africa, 
12. HALLERIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 936. 
Calyx cup-shaped-campanulate ; lobes 3-5, broad and short. 
Corolla-tube curved or straight, inflated above; limb short, spread- 
ing, sometimes oblique, with the upper outside lip shortly 2-lobed 
and the lower lip longer, concave and shortly 3-lobed, or the lips nearly 
equal, Stamens 4, didynamous, scarcely declinate, affixed to the 
middle of the corolla-tube, usually exserted ; filaments filiform ; anther- 
cells diverging, at length divaricate, scarcely confluent; rudiment of 
the fifth stamen 0. Style filiform; stigma minute. Ovules numerous 
in each cell. Fruit a berry. Seeds rather large, compressed, sur- 
rounded by a rather thick narrow wing.—Glabrous shrubs. Leaves 
Opposite, often ovate, smooth, shining, quite entire or dentate. 
Pedicels often fascicled on a very short axillary peduncle, rarely 
solitary, with two bracteoles below the middle. Corolla red. 
Species 5, extending to South Africa and Madagascar. 
Leaves ovate, usually 24-3 in. long; corolla-tube curved 1. H. lucida, 
Leaves elliptic, 1-1} in. long; corolla-tube straight . 2. H. elliptica, 
1, H. lucida, Linn. Sp. Pl. 625, excl. var. B. A shrub or some- 
times a tree, reaching a height of 30-50 ft. Leaves 1-34 in. long, 
$~2 in. broad, usually broadly ovate, coriaceous, acuminate or caudate- 
acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, serrate-crenate or serrulate ; 
petiole 2—4 lin. long. Flowers 2~8 or more together, rarely solitary, 
in the axils of the leaves or sometimes on the leafless parts of the stems 
and branckes ; pedicels 5-6 lin.long. Calyx 4-5 lin. in diam., shortly 
3~d-lobed. Corolla 9—15 lin. long, brown-red, orange or purple ; tube 
curved, slightly gibbous at the base in front, minutely pubescent out- 
side ; limb unequally 4-lobed; posticous lobe entire, emarginate or 
bifid. Stamens and style exserted. Berry 6-8 lin. long, ellipsoid or 
globose, dark purple.—Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 54, and in 
DC. Prodr. x. 301; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 116; Bot. Mag. t. 
1744 ; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 401; Hiern in Dyer, Fi. Cap. iv. ii. 
aes OH. abyssinica, Jaub. & Spach, Ilustr. Pl. Orient. v. 65, 66, tt. 
499, 460; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 377. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia: Shireh, Quartin-Dillon. t. 
Aber, Schimper, 858! and without precise locality, Roth, 473 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: by the River Cunene, Johnston ! 
Samen; around Mount 
