364 XC1I. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ A lectra. 
Filaments glabrous. 
Stems relatively stout, much-branched from 
the base ; branches erect; leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, not acuminate . : . 12. A. Vogelit. 
Anther-cells apiculate. 
Very hispid; hairs tuberculate. 
Stems rigid, erect; leaves spreading. 5 algh, 
Stems rigid, erect; leaves fleshy, adpressed . 14. 
Stems very short and slender; leaves sessile, 
A. asperrima, 
A 
less than in. long. : 15. A. virgata. 
A 
A 
. rigida. 
Very dwarf, branching from the base: leaves 
more than $ in. long . : : 
Very hispid ; hairs not tuberculate; stems long, 
weak ; leaves oblong-lanceolate . : ef 
Hairy or slightly hispid. 
Stems usually simple, slender, usually less 
* than a foot high. 
Leaves lanceolate to orbicular, obscurely 
toothed . ‘ ; : : . 18, A. senegalensis. 
Leaves cordate, obscurely toothed . . 19. A. cordata, 
Stems rigid, usually more than a foot high ; 
leaves coarsely toothed. 
Stems simple or with few, erect branches ; 
leaves sessile, cordate-ovate, adpressed 20. A. melampyroides. 
Stems much branched; leaves stalked, 
oblong-lanceolate, spreading “ . 21. A. communis. 
. aurantiaca. 
. trinervis. 
ps ps 
1. A. atrosanguinea, Hemsl. An annual root-parasite, about 
7 in. high, Root orange or dark crimson. Stem branched, glabrate, 
orange, soon turning dark crimson at the base. Leaves few, small, 
seale-like, rather fleshy, deep crimson. Flowers in terminal spikes. 
Spikes about 2 in. long, erect; bracts shorter than the flowers. Calyx 
broadly campanulate, somewhat hispid, 10-nerved, deep crimson, 
Shortly 5-lobed, about 4 in. long; lobes broadly ovate-triangular, 
apiculate. Corolla nearly rotate, scarcely exceeding the calyx, orange 
yellow; lobes 5, somewhat spreading, obtuse. Stamens inserted at 
the base of the corolla, nearly equal ; filaments glabrous or (according to 
Welwitsch) pilose, not densely bearded.—IMelasma atrosanguinewm, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 769. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in thickets between Sansamanda 
and Caghuy, Welwitsch, 5853 ! 
This species was founded upon a fragment, which looks different from anything 
else we have seen. The description is from Hiern, 
2. A. Welwitschii, Hemsi. A parasitic, brown, leafless, puberu- 
lous, herb like a broomrape. Rhizome thick, fleshy, yellow inside. 
Stem simple or slightly branched, 4—7 in. high, bearing a few obtuse 
scales less than } in. long, and florescent in the upper quarter, orange 
purple at the base, dusky purple upwards. Flowers orange, densely 
crowded, nearly sessile. Bracts oblong, obtuse, shorter than the 
flowers, Bracteoles subulate, about =, in. long. Calyx campanulate, 
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