Scoparia.] XII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 359 
long, 1-5 lin. broad, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base 
into a short petiole, more or less distinctly serrate above the middle, 
densely punctate. Flowers solitary or geminate in the axils of 
the leaves, often forming many-flowered raceme-like inflorescences ; 
peduncles 2-3 lin. long, very slender. Calyx about 1 lin. long, densely 
covered outside with sessile glands ; segments 4, ovate, obtuse, sparingly 
ciliate, 8—5-nerved. Corolla 14 lin. long, white. Capsule ovoid, 1-1} 
lin. long.—Beauv. FI. Owar. ii. 86, t. 115; Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. 
Guin. Pl. 79 ; Benth. in DC, Prodr. x. 431; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
xxI1x. 121; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 144; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 358; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 766; Durand in Comptes- 
rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxiii. 115: Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 
1.211; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fase. 2, 45 and 
Reliq. Dewevr. 170; De Wild. Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 74; Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 289. S. ternata, Forsk. Fl. d4igypt.-Arab. 31. Capraria 
dulcis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. 459. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram! Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 5134! Vogel, 
20! Welwitsch, 5921! Gold Coast : Krobo plains, Johnson, 557! Liberia; Grand 
Bassa, Vogel, 47 | Monrovia, Whyte! Lagos, Dawodu, 6! Ogbomoshaw, Barter, 
3405! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 377! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter 
1174! Southern Nigeria: Nun River, Vogel, 16! Old Calabar, Holland, 17! 98! 
Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 862! Johann-Albrechtshéhe, Staudé, 598! 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, iii. 40! River Jur, Sckwein- 
furth, 1578! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller. Rolas Island, Quintas. 
Princes Island, Welwitsch, 5922! Lower. Congo, Cabra; near Leopoldville, 
Gillet; Boma, Dewevre. Angola: various localities, Welwitsch, 5899! 5915! 
5919, 5920; Gossweiler, 
2 Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi; near Tabora, Speke & 
rant | 
Also in nearly all tropical countries, often as a weed on cultivated ground. 
This plant is used as forage for horses and oxen in the Congo Free State.—De 
Wild. Notices Pl. Utiles du Congo, 549. 
35. CAPRARIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 959. 
Calyx 5-partite ; segments equal, narrow, scarcely imbricate. Corolla 
campanulate or subrotate, deeply 5-fid ; tube short ; lobes flat, imbricate. 
Stamens 4 or 5, shorter than the corolla, somewhat unequal ; filaments 
filiform; anthers sagittate or almost horseshoe-shaped ; cells divergent, 
confluent at the apex. Style short, dilated and almost 2-lobed at the 
apex. Capsule ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bisulcate, loculicidal ; valves at 
length 2-tid. Seeds numerous, small, attached to thick placentas, 
reticulate.—Glabrous or hairy perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 
alternate, serrate. Peduncles axillary, ebracteate, usually geminate. 
Flowers white. 
Species 4, natives of tropical and subtropical America. 
1. C. biflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed.i. 628. A more or less pilose erect 
branched undershrub, 2-4 ft. high, with a creeping rootstock ; stem 
