Buchnera.| XCIl. SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 399 
about 4% lin. long, somewhat funnel-shaped, straight or slightly 
curved, glabrous outside, pilose at the throat inside; lobes obovate or 
obovate-orbicular, about 14 lin. long and 14 lin. broad. Anthers acute. 
Style 2 lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; between the Kulei and Kutsi Rivers,. 
4300 ft., Baum, 875! 
Imperfectly known species. 
52. B. verbenoides, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 226. 
An erect hirsute-puberulous branched herb 2 ft. high; stem and 
branches terete, sparingly hirsute; branches short. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, the lower opposite, the upper alternate and narrower, 
13-2 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, subcoriaceous, obtuse, shortly narrowed 
at the base, sparingly and stiffly pubescent above on the nerves beneath 
and on the margins; petiole short, with long hairs. Flowers in 
crowded capitate-spicate inflorescences 1-2 in. long on terminal or 
axillary alternate peduncles 2-3 in. long; bracts lanceolate-subulate, 
pubescent, shorter than the calyx. Calyx pubescent, scarcely ribbed, 
acutely 5-toothed. Corolla small, salver-shaped ; tube narrow, sparingly 
pilose outside ; lobes subequal, short, rounded, glabrous, 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Peters. 
Also in Madagascar. 
53. B. bragaana, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 360. Stem branched 
from the base; branches erect, about 10-12 in. long, with all parts 
Shortly and hispidly white-pilose. Leaves linear-lanceolate, rather 
thick. Inflorescence an interrupted few-flowered spike; bracts linear- 
lanceolate, scarcely equalling the calyx. Calyx elongate-tubular ; teeth 
triangular, 4 times shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube hispid-pilose, 
elongate, narrow, twice longer than the calyx; lobes broadly obovate, 
3 times shorter than the tube, the lower lobe somewhat larger than the 
rest. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Beira; Braga, 11. 
41. STRIGA, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 968. 
Calyx tubular, 5-15- (rarely up to 17-) ribbed, 5- (rarely 4-) toothed 
or -lobed. Corolla-tube slender below, usually abruptly curved at or 
above the middle and more or less inflated from the curve to the apex ; 
limb 2-lipped ; upper lip inside, usually shorter than the lower, entire, 
emarginate, or 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
included ; anthers 1-celled, vertical, affixed at the back, connective 
Sometimes mucronate at the apex. Style thickened or clavate above, 
stigmatose at the apex. Capsule oblong, ellipsoid or ovoid, loculicidal ; 
valves coriaceous, entire. Seeds many, obovoid or oblong ; testa reti- 
culate.—Herbs erect and sometimes rigid, often parasitic and drying 
