296 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEX® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [| Halleria. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 6560 ft., 
Volkens, 1281! Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains, 8500 ft., Goetze, 946. British 
Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Zomba Plateau, 5000 ft., Whyte! 
Also in South Africa. 
2. H. elliptica, Thunb. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 39. An erect 
shrub 4—6 ft. high ; branches subquadrangular. Leaves 1-1} in. long, 
4-1 in. broad, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, acute, minutely and 
remotely denticulate or sometimes distinctly serrate ; petiole 1-2 lin. 
long. Flowers solitary or 2-8 together; pedicels 5 lin. long. Calyx 
3 lin. in diam., 2 lin. long; lobes subequal, broadly rounded, minutely 
mucronate. Corolla 3-1 in. long; tube straight, slightly and equally 
dilated at the base, much dilated above, minutely glandular-pubescent, 
very shortly 4-lobed; lobes subequal. Stamens and style included or at 
length exserted. Berry 4-5 lin. long, dark purple, ellipsoid or globose. 
—Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 54, and in DC. Prodr. x. 302; 
Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 356; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 209. H. 
lucida, var. 8, Linn. Sp. Pl. 625. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Makua Country; Namuli Hills, 
Last! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Mlanji, Whyte! Fuchila 
Plateau, 6000 ft., Purves, 79! 
Also in South Africa. 
13. SCROPHULARIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 937. 
Calyx deeply 5-fid or 5-partite ; segments usually obtuse, sometimes 
orbicular and scarious on the margins, rarely rather acute. Corolla- 
tube ventricose, globose or oblong; lobes 5, short, flat, 4 (including the 
2 posticous, which are usually larger) erect; anticous lobe spreading. 
Perfect stamens 4, didynamous, affixed to the corolla-tube, declinate, 
included or exserted, filaments filiform or rather thick ; stamincde 
posticous, scale-like, affixed to the apex of the corolla-tube, or wanting ; 
anther-cells confluent, transverse. Style filiform; stigma minute oF 
more rarely capitate. Ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule ovoid or 
subglobose, usually acute, septicidal ; valves entire or bifid. Seeds ovoid, 
rugose, not winged.—Glabrous or hirsute, often fcetid herbs or under- 
shrubs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, entire, incised or dis- 
sected, often with pellucid dots. Inflorescence a terminal simple or 
branched thyrsus of lax cymes. Flowers rather small, greenish-purple, 
purple or yellow. 
Species about 120, in the extratropical regions of the northern hemisphere. 
1. S. arguta, Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 342. An erect 
more or less glandular-pubescent annual, 6 in. to 2 ft. high ; eines 
simple or with a few straight ascending branches. Leaves up to 24 in. 
long and 2 in. broad, broadly ovate, acute, subcordate, truncate 0 
cuneate at the base, irregularly dentate or bidentate ; petiole 3-1 mn. 
