Scrophularia.] XCII. SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN), 297 
long. Cymes 2-5-flowered or sometimes reduced to one flower, shortly 
pedunculate, forming a rigid leafy or sometimes almost leafless thyrsus ; 
pedicels 1-34 lin. long; bracteoles setaceous, very small. Calyx 1} lin. 
long; segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. Corolla 
urceolate, rather longer than the calyx. Stamens included ; staminode 
orbicular-obcordate. Capsule 24-34 lin. long, ovoid, beaked, glabrous. 
—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 305; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 306; Almagia 
in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 139 ; Webb & Berth. Iles Canaries, 
Hoe tu. W131, & 177.< 8, rostrata, Hochst. ex Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 
395, 
Nile Land. Nubia: Hor Tamanib, Lord! Coast region, Bent! Eritrea : 
various localities, Terracciano ¥ Pappi. Abyssinia: Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 
1428! Somaliland: Serrut Mountains, 4900ft., near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1407 ! 
and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 
Also in Europe, North Africa, Canary Islands, Arabia, and Socotra. 
14, POLYCARENA, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii, 944. 
Calyx membranous, 2-lipped, bipartite in the fruiting stage. 
Corolla persistent; tube slender, longer or shorter than the calyx, 
dilated at the throat; lobes 5, spreading, entire, subequal, the two 
posticous outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, affixed to the corolla-tube, 
shortly exserted; anthers 1-celled by confluence. Style filiform, 
clavate at the apex; stigma obtuse. Ovules numerous in each cell. 
Capsule membranous, septicidal; valves bifid. Seeds numerous; 
testa loose—Dwarf viscous usually much-branched annual herbs. 
Leaves opposite below, alternate above, entire or dentate. Flowers 
small, in terminal racemes or spikes, which are at first capitate, at length 
elongated ; bracts leaf-like, solitary, adnate to the pedicel and calyx. 
Species 21, all except the following endemic in South Africa. 
1. P. discolor, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandeab. xxxi. 191, 
A slender erect or suberect sparingly branched glandular-pubescent 
annual, 13-5 in. high. Leaves sessile, 2-6 lin. long, $-} lin. broad, 
linear or narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, usually entire, sometimes remotely 
denticulate. Inflorescence 3-4 lin. long and broad, elongating in the 
fruiting stage; bracts lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 14-2 lin. long; 
pedicels very short. Calyx 1} lin. long; segments unequal, {-1 lin. 
long, linear, obtuse, concave inside. Corolla 2} lin. long, glabrous ; 
tube 1}-14 lin. long; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip shorter than the ee 
whitish with 2 deep-orange-yellow blotches; lower lip at first blue, 
afterwards rose-coloured. Stamens and style exserted. Capsule 1} 
ice long, oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous.—Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. 1. 
$27, 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Uridum, on the west — of 
the Kalahari, Schinz, 32! and without precise locality, Chapman §& Baines ! 
Also in Bechuanaland. 
