3 12 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Zindenbergia. 
Leaves up to 2? in. long, the uppermost usually 
longer than the calyx; calyx 3-4 lin. 
long . , : : 
: 4, L. abyssinica. 
Lower leaves oblong-lanceolate De i 
virens. 
1. L. nigrescens, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 10. A slender 
annual herb 6 in. high, branched from the base, drying black, having 
glandular hairs mixed with a dense indumentum. Leaves 10 lin. long, 
suborbicular-ovate, acute, dentate; upper floral leaves longer than the 
calyx; petiole 5 lin. long. Raceme many-flowered ; flowers opposite, 
secund. Calyxrather glabrous. Corolla 3 times longer than the calyx, 
glabrous. Capsule somewhat villous.—Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 306, mn 
note. 
Wile Land. Sowaliland; Ahl Mountains at Yatir, 6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 
863 C. 
2. L. scutellarioides, Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 241. 
An erect branched undershrub 12-14 in. high, subglabrate below, else- 
where covered with a dense canescent pubescence with which are 
sparingly mixed longer glandular hairs. Leaves 24-4 lin. long and 
broad, the uppermost only slightly smaller than the lower, ovate to 
suborbicular, rounded at the base, acute, denticulate, very shortly 
petiolate. Flowers axillary; peduncles 3-3 lin. long. Calyx 1} lin. 
long, shorter than the leaves except in a few of the uppermost flowers; 
teeth 4 lin. long. Corolla 43-54 lin. long. Capsule longer than the 
ee shortly pubescent.—Hemiorchis habessinica, Ehrenb. ex AS 
chers. |.c. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Dahlac Island near Massowa, Ehrenberg ! 
3. L. sinaica, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 22. A divaricately much 
branched densely glandular-pilose undershrub; branches up to about 
1 ft. long. Lower leaves suborbicular-ovate or ovate, 3—7 lin. long and 
broad, usually shortly petiolate, coarsely crenate-dentate, acute OF 
obtuse, rounded or cuneate at the base; uppermost leaves sessile, 
smaller, shorter than the calyx. Flowers opposite in loose secund 
racemes 6-12 in. long; pedicels }-1} lin. long. Calyx 14-2 lin. long; 
densely glandular pilose ; teeth ovate or ovate-elliptic, unequal, 3-3 lin. 
long, acute. Corolla 7-8 lin. long. Capsule oblong, slightly longer than 
the calyx, glandular-pilose above.—DC. Prodr. x. 3773; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 425; Almagid in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 139. Bovea sinared, 
Decaisne in Aun. Sci. Nat. 2™° sér., ii. 253. 
Nile Land. Red Sea: Harnish Island, Slade, 12! Eritrea: various 
localities, Terracciano S Pappi. 
Also in Egypt, Arabia and Socotra. 
4, L. abyssinica, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 377. A & 
varicately branched glandular-pubescent or pilose perennial herb or 
undershrub. Leaves 3-2 in. long, 4-1? in. broad in the lower part of the 
branches, gradually decreasing in size in the upper part, the uppermost 
