Lindenbergia.] XCI1. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 313 
usually longer than the calyx, usually broadly ovate, often cuneate, 
sometimes rounded, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, coarsely 
crenate-dentate or acutely dentate, petiolate to subsessile. Flowers 
opposite in leafy terminal secund racemes; pedicels }—1} lin. long. 
Calyx 3-4 lin. long; teeth broadly lanceolate or ovate, }-14 lin. long, 
shortly acuminate. Corolla 7-8 lin. long. Capsule slightly longer 
than the calyx, pubescent.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 120; Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 262. L. sinaica, Vatke in Linnea, xliii, 306, not of 
Benth. ZL. sinaica, Benth., var. abyssinica, Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, viii. 140. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Hor Tamanib, near Suakin, 500-600 ft., Lord! Wadi 
O-Mareg, Schweinfurth, 427! coast region, Bent! Eritrea: Dogali and near 
Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 257! 360! and various localities, Terracciano § Pappi. 
Abyssinia : near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1619! and without precise locality, 
Schimper, 782! Somaliland: Abl and Serut Mountains, near Maid, 3300-5900 ft., 
Hildebrandt, 1406! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
Also in North-western India. 
Ad Pirotte, Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 140, from Dahlac Island, 
Eritrea, I have not seen. We can find nothing in the description by which to dis- 
tinguish it satisfactorily from L. abyssinica. 
». L. virens, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 306. A shortly glandular- 
villous perennial (?) herb; stem branched in the upper part; branches 
ascending. Leaves petiolate, crenate-dentate except at the base; lower 
leaves up to 2? in. long, about 2 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 
at the base ; uppermost leaves smaller, suborbicular, contracted into a 
petiole ; petiole 24-7} lin. long. Flowers in pairs, forming a leafy 
raceme ; pedicels about 14 lin. long. Calyx 34 lin. long, often shorter 
than the floral leaves. Corolla 8 lin. long. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Buri, near Massowa, Hildebrandt, 741 A. 
In Vatke’s description we can find nothing to separate this species from L. 
abyssinica except the oblong-lanceolate lower leaves. 
20. STEMODIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 950. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments narrow, imbricate, equal or subequal. 
Corolla-tube cylindric; upper outside lip suberect, broad, entire or 
emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, not plicate at the base. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; filaments filiform ; anther-cells dis- 
tinct, stipitate, all bearing pollen. Style dilated at the apex, usually 
2-lobed. Capsule globose, ovoid or acuminate ; dehiscence usually loculi- 
cidal, sometimes septicidal ; valves 2, bifid, or 4. Seeds many, small, 
striate and usually reticulate.—Glandular-pubescent or villous, often 
aromatic herbs, or sometimes undershrubs. Leaves opposite or verti- 
cillate. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves or the upper in a 
crowded leafy spike ; pedicels 1- or 2-bracteolate. Corolla bluish. 
Species about 30, the others in South America, Tropical Asia and Australia. 
