Striga. | XCII, SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 407 
teeth ; teeth subulate, 1} lin. long. Corolla except the base of the 
.tube densely pilose or almost tomentose, white or pale lilac; tube 
43-5} lin. long, narrow at the base, curved and much inflated above ; 
upper lip oblong, 14~—24 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, truncate at the apex ; 
lower lip 24-4 lin. long; lobes oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 14-1} lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad, obtuse. Style 2} lin. long. Capsule obovoid, 1} lin. 
long, nearly 1 lin. broad.—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 515, t. 12, 
figs. K, L (lobes of the lower lip of the corolla too narrow); Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 779; S. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 191. 
S. Thunbergii, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. li. 130, not of Benth. 
.. Wile Land. Abyssinia: Shireh, Petit/ Uganda: near Mulema and at 
Trunga, Bagshawe, 330! 394 C! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; by the River Monino, Welwitsch, 5823! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Lake Jalla (Chala), 
Volkens, 300! 
11. S. strictissima, Shan. Very similar to S. canescens in habit 
and foliage, but the stems are slightly stouter and more rigid, the 
corolla-tube is longer and narrower at the apex, the lower lip is much 
shorter and has shorter more acute lobes. Corolla dull pink, densely 
covered outside with short adpressed hairs; tube about 6} lin. long, 
harrow at the base, gradually curved and inflated at the apex; upper 
lip oblong, 14 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, truncate and somewhat irregularly 
toothed at the apex ; lower lip 14-1} lin. long; lobes narrowly lanceo- 
late, about 1 lin. long and } lin. broad, subacute. Style 3} lin. long. 
Capsule oblong, 1}-14 lin. long, 2 lin. broad. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, on swampy plains, Baxter, 1263! 
Schweinfurth, 1651, collected on the Wau in Jur, appears to be this. The Kew 
specimen has no perfect flowers. 
12. S. hermonthica, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. May. i. 365. 
An erect usually branched apparently parasitic herb up to 2 ft. high or 
more, but generally about 1 ft., hispidly hairy, scabrid, leafy ; stems 
stout, quadrangular. Leaves opposite or alternate, linear-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, 1-6 lin. broad, acute or acuminate, entire, 
hispidly hairy chiefly on the margins and nerves, very scabrid. Spikes 
terminal, more or less densely-flowered, often about 6 in. long; bracts 
lanceolate, 4~} in. long, #}-1}4 lin. broad, acuminate, hispidly ciliate, 
seabrid ; bracteoles subulate, 2~2} lin. long, hispidly ciliate ; flowers 
large and showy. Calyx 44-5 lin. long, scarious, 5-toothed, 5-nerved, 
hispidly hairy on the teeth and nerves, sometimes scabrid; teeth 
narrowly triangular, 14-14 lin. long (the uppermost much smaller), 
with filiform tips. Corolla rose-red or red; tube 7-10 lin. long, 
sparingly and minutely pubescent, curved and inflated above the calyx; 
upper lip suborbicular, about $ in. in diam., emarginate or shortly 
2-lobed ; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes oblong or oblong-obovate, o-7 lin, 
long, 1}—-14 in. broad, very thin, veined. Style 2} lin. long, persistent. 
Capsule ellipsoid or oblong, 2-3 lin. long, 1}-2 lin. broad.—DC., Prodr. 
x. 002; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 131; Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aetbiop. 
