A404 XCH. SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Striga. 
incurved margins, with white points. Spikes terminal, numerous, 
slender, 14-34 lin. long, more or less interrupted; flowers alternate ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, }—1 lin. long, acute, concave, hispidly ciliate and 
‘with a few short hispid hairs on the keel; bracteoles linear, }—3 lin. 
long, hispidly ciliate. Calyx 14-12 lin. long, 5-nerved, 5-toothed, with 
white rather long stiff hairs chiefly on the margins of the teeth; teeth 
narrowly triangular, acuminate, 2 lin. long, the uppermost smaller. 
‘Corolla sparingly and shortly glandular-pubescent, apparently white ; 
tube 5 lin. long, very slender below, abruptly curved about 3} lin, from 
the base and inflated from the curve to the apex; upper lip broadly 
obovate or subrhomboid, 1-1} lin. long, 1} lin. broad ; lower lip 14-14 
lin. long; lobes obovate-oblong, 1} lin. long, nearly ? lin. broad, obtuse. 
Style 23 lin. long. Capsule ovoid, 1} lin. long, 2? lin. broad. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe; Jeba on the Niger, Barter ! 
4. S. micrantha, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 130. Stem erect, 
paniculately branched, angular, tuberculate-scabrid. Leaves linear, 
tuberculate-scabrid on the upper-side and on the midrib and margins of 
the under-side. Spikes slender, forming a very much branched elongated 
panicle, with the flowers separated from one another ; flowers very 
small, sessile; bracts linear. Calyx campanulate, 5-ribbed, pilose ; 
teeth triangular-oblong, acute. Corolla tubular, curved, gradually 
inflated, scarcely } in. long, 3 times as long as the calyx, 2-lipped ; 
upper lip entire, scarcely shorter than the lower. Capsule ovoid, as 
long as the calyx, long-apiculate. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Shireh, Quartin-Dillon. 
5. S. Thunbergii, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363. A 
rigid erect herb usually 6-9 in. high but sometimes up to 1} ft. high, 
rather stout, more or less densely hispidly pubescent, scabrid; stems 
simple or sparingly branched. Leaves opposite, adpressed to the stems 
or branches, linear or linear-lanceolate, }-1} in. long, $-1} lin. broad, 
acute or somewhat obtuse, hispidly pubescent, often scabrid, especially 
along the margins, with white points. Spikes terminal, 1-7 in. long, 
usually densely-flowered’and bearing imbricate bracts ; flowers opposite ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2}—4 lin. long, acute or acuminate, 
shortly pubescent or sometimes glabrous except on the hispidly ciliate 
margins; bracteoles linear, about 24 lin. long. Calyx 2-4 lin. long, o- 
nerved, 5-toothed, pubescent on the nerves and teeth ; teeth linear-tri- 
angular, }-1} lin. long, acuminate. Corolla red, purple or violet, more or 
less glandular-pubescent ; tube 4—5 lin. long, narrow below, curved and 
much inflated near the apex ; upper lip broadly oblong or obovate, 2-?3 
lin. long, entire or emarginate; lower lip 24-3 lin. long; lobes oblong 
to oblong-linear, 1-2 lin. long. Capsule ellipsoid, 14-1} lin. long, 1} 
lin. broad, apiculate —DC. Prodr. x. 502; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 779, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 380; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 
468; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 369. Buchnera 
asiatica, Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. i, 630, partly. B. bilabiata, Thunb. Prodr. 100. 
