Striga. | XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 409 
crimson, pink or white; tube 6~7 lin. long, thickly covered with short 
_gland-tipped hairs, curved and slightly inflated at the apex ; upper lip 
obreniform, 2—2} lin. long, about 5 lin. broad ; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes 
oblong to obovate, 44-5 lin. long, 14-23 lin. broad. Style 44-54 lin. 
Jong. Capsule oblong, about 2 lin. long and 1 lin, broad.—DC. Prodr. 
x. 502; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 382; Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 
361; Hiern in Gat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 779, and in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. ii. 
382; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb, Exped. 369; Engl. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 480; S. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 190. 
Buchnera elegans, D. Dietr. Syn. Pl. iii. 525. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; near Sobato Nbilla, Welwitsch, 
5851! by the River Habungu, at 3600 ft., Baum, 490! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: below Ruchigga. 5000 ft., Bagshawe> 
495. Kilimanjaro; below Marangu, Volkens, 2137! Uhehe; Uchungwe Mountains, 
near Kissinga, Goetze, 582. British Central Africa: near Lake Tanganyika, 
Cameron ! Nyasaland; near Blantyre, Last / between Lakes Shirwa and Chiuta, 
Cunningham, 18! Rhodesia ; Leshumo Valley, Holub, 483! 484! Mashonaland, 
Hon, Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 259! 
Also in South Africa. 
15, S. lutea, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 22, An erect slender parasitic 
herb, often 6-9 in. high (rarely under 3 or more than 12 in.), usually 
branched, seabridly hairy or sometimes villous, drying green or brown. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, narrowly linear or sometimes lanceolate, 
2-1} in. (often about } in.) long, 4-2 lin. broad, acute or obtuse, entire, 
scabridly hairy. Spikes terminal, usually 4—6 in. long, distant-flowered ; 
bracts linear, 14-4 lin. long, obtuse or acute, scabridly hairy ; bracteoles 
similar but shorter. Calyx 24-4 lin. (usually 3 lin.) long, generally 
10-ribbed, 5-toothed, scarious between the ribs, scabridly hairy on the 
ribs and teeth ; teeth stiff, subulate or narrowly triangular, }—1} lin. 
long, the uppermost usually smallest. Corolla scarlet, red, yellow or 
white ; tube 4~7 lin. long, very slender, glabrous or puberulous, straight 
and cylindric to about 1 lin. below the apex where it is distinctly curved 
and inflated; upper lip broadly obovate or almost obreniform, about 
1 lin, long and 2 lin. broad ; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes obovate or cuneate- 
obovate, 2-24 lin. long, 14~12 lin. broad. Style 3} lin. long. Capsule 
oblong-ovoid or ellipsoid, 13-2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad.— Benth. in 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 11; 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i, 212; Hiern in Cat. Afr. iede: 
Welw. i. 780, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 382; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
7.299. §. hirsuta, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502; Schweinf. Beitr. F). 
Aethiop. 100 ; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 361; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. 
FL. Congo, i. fase. 2, 46, and Relig. Dewevr. 171; Engl. & Gilgin Baum, 
Kunene-Samb. Exped. 369 ; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 
226 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 142. S. hirsuta, var. 
humilis, Klotzsch, l.c. 227, 571. S. hirsuta, var. per pusilla, A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 132. 8. pusilla, Hochst. ex Benth. in DO. Prodr. 
x. 03. 8. zangebarica, Klotzsch, lc. 571, t. 35. S. coccinea, Benth. in 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364, and in DC. Prodr. x. 503. 8. lutea, var. 
coccinea, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 240. Campuleia coccinea, 
