Alectra. | XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN), 369 
13-2 lin. long, equalling the tube. Corolla campanulate ; lobes rounded. 
Filaments glabrous ; anthers horseshoe-shaped, cells not apiculate. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Willen, 172! Northern Nigeria : Borgu, Barter,789! 
Mount Patteh, Vogel, 186! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Boma, Monteiro! Amboland: Olukonda, Schinz, 
Ay 
Mozamb. Dist. Melambe River, Zambesi Delta, Kirk! British Central 
Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 362! Ngamiland : Botletle Valley, 
Lugard, 210! 
13. A. asperrima, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 340. An erect 
scabrid herb, 6 in. to a foot or more high, apparently a root-parasite. 
Stems simple or slightly branched. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse, 
4-1} in. long, sometimes irregularly toothed, very rough on both sur- 
faces, the bristles having large white tubercular bases. Flowers solitary 
in the axils of leafy bracts, almost sessile; bracts lanceolate, longer 
than the flowers, entire or lower one sometimes toothed; bracteoles 
linear or lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Calyx campanulate, nearly 
equally 5-lobed, enlarging in fruit, nearly } in. long, very rough with 
tubercular bristles, and more or less distinctly 10-ribbed ; lobes deltoid,. 
about as long as the tube. Corolla not seen perfect. Filaments gla- 
brous, dilated ; anther-cells apiculate-—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
ak Glossostylis asperrima, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
ai. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Mount Alam Kale, north-west of Aidereso. Schweinfurth, 
1631! Abyssinia: Haramat; foot of Mount Amba Zion (Tsion), near Geraz, 
Schimper, 1094! Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips! Uganda: Nandi, 7000 to 
8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7013 ! 
14. A. rigida, Hemsi. An erect, hispid, apparently annual 
parasitic herb, 9-18 in. high. Stem rather slender, rigid, simple or 
bearing few erect branches, florescent only towards the tips. Leaves all 
opposite, sessile, thick, rigid, adpressed to the stem, beset, especially on 
the edge, with white tubercular bristles, linear-lanceolate or oblong, 3-1 
in. long, obtuse, usually having 3 or 4 small, thickened, glandular teeth 
on each side. Flowers about } in. in diam., solitary and almost sessile 
in the axils of opposite, or sometimes alternate, ovate bracts, bidentate 
above the middle, about as long as the calyx; bracteoles 2, linear, 
equalling the calyx-tube. Calyx pubescent outside, campanulate, 3-4 
lin. long, 10-ribbed, 5-lobed ; lobes unequal, shorter than the tube, 
rather obtuse. Corolla glabrous, 5-6 lin. long, longitudinally veined ~ 
tube about 14 lin. long, constricted at the top and then expanding into 
an oblique, 5-lobed limb. Stamens 4; filaments filiform, glabrous 
anther-cells slightly divergent, apiculate.-—Melasma rigidum, Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 767. 
rie Guinea. JHuilla: between Ivantala and Quilengues, Welwitsch,. 
5797! 
Description partly from Hiern. 
15. A. virgata, Hemsi. A hispid perennial, Stems erect, about 
6 in. high, very slender, rigid, leafy throughout. Leaves all opposite, 
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