314 XCII, SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). _ [Stemodia. 
1. S. serrata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 381. An erect much 
branched viscid glandular-pubescent herb, 6 in. to 1 ft. high. Leaves 
rather crowded, up to 2 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate, 
acute, narrowed at the base or sometimes dilated and semi-amplexicaul, 
serrate from the middle to the apex. Flowers crowded, forming leafy 
spike-like racemes; peduncles }—1 lin. long ; bracts 2, 14-14 lin. long, 
narrow-linear, inserted near the calyx. Calyx 2? lin. long; segments 
subulate-linear, acuminate. Corolla about 3 lin. long; upper lip emar- 
ginate ; lower lip broadly and very shortly 3-lobed. Capsule as long as 
the calyx, narrow-oblong, acuminate, glabrous, 4-furrowed.—Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 265. Sutera serrata, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 
43, name only. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur! Senegal, Roger! 
Wile Land. Kordofan: Mount Kohn, Kotschy, 226! Mount Arashkol, 
Kotschy, 199! Upper Sennar: Fazokel, Kotschy, 521! White Nile, at Els-Ehs, 
Schweinfurth, 979! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Meny- 
harth, 1070! 
Also in India. 
Imperfectly known species. 
2. S. senegalensis, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. iii. 107, without 
description. 
21. STEMODIOPSIS, Engl. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 25. 
Calyx 5-partite ; segments linear-lanceolate, very acute. Corolla-tube 
subcampanulate, not spurred nor saccate at the base; limb 2-lipped ; 
upper lip outside, concave, semiorbicular or broadly ovate, very shortly 
2-lobed ; lower lip rather larger than the upper, shortly 3-lobed, having 
(at least in S. Buchanani) a prominent palate. Perfect stamens 4, 
didynamous, included and covered by the upper lip of the corolla ; 
filaments of the longer stamens twisted in the middle or merely curved ; 
anthers 2-celled ; cells ovoid, equal, confluent at the apex, diverging at 
a right angle or almost divaricate, dehiscing longitudinally ; staminode 
filiform, sometimes minute or quite wanting. Ovary elongate-conical, 
2-celled, as long as or nearly as long as the calyx, attenvated into ® 
slender style ; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule septicidal, 
ellipsoid-conical, sharply beaked, turned downwards; valves 2, coherent 
or connivent at the apex after dehiscence.—Herbs, sometimes almost 
subshrubby, with many rather densely leafy branches. Leaves opposite, 
petiolate, spathulate or ovate, dentate. Flowers very small, axillary, 
solitary or sometimes in 3-flowered cymes; pedicels minutely 
bibracteolate. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Leaves spathulate ; petiole 1-13 lin. iong; pedicels 
nearly as long as the leaves . : : : . 1. S. Rive. 
