Striga.] XCII, SCROPHULARIACEA (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 411 
District, James! Nandi; Sibu, James! and without precise locality, Wilson, 
26! 27! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; by the Cuanza River, Johnston ! 
Lombe, Welwitsch, 5893! 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba _ Island, Lyne! German East Africa; Usambara; 
Lutindi, 4900 ft., Holst, 3269! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! 
Rios de Sena, Peters; foot of Morambala Mountain, Kirk ! near Mazaro, Kirk ! 
British Central Atrica: Nyasaland; North Nyasa and Upper Loangwa River, 
Nicholson! River Shire, Elephant Marsh and Nsese River, Scof¢/ north of the 
River Shire, Meller! Bechuanaland ; Bakwena Territory, 3500 ft., Holub ! 
Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 
S. Dewevrei, De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soe. Pot. Belg. xxxviil. 99, 
from the Congo Free State, I have not seen. Judging from the description it is the 
same as, or very closely allied to, the above species. 
17. S. latericea, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 311. Stems erect, rather 
slender, 1-23 ft. high, simple, sparingly leafy, somewhat densely covered 
With very small fine scarcely hispid hairs; internodes usually 2-3} in, 
long. Leaves mostly opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-1} in. 
long, 14-2} lin. broad, acuminate, 3-nerved, densely and shortly pube- 
scent, scabrid, with a few rather long and slender teeth on each side 
usually about the middle. Flowers in a terminal loose spike up to 6 in. 
long, and sometimes also in the axils of the uppermost leaves distant 
from the rest 3 bracts lanceolate, 3-5} lin. long, or the lowermost some- 
times up to 1 in. long, acuminate, rather densely and shortly pubescent, 
ciliate; bracteoles linear, 2-3 lin. long, densely pubescent. Calyx 6-7 
lin. long, 15-17-ribbed, densely covered with tine short scarcely hispid 
hairs ; teeth triangular-ligulate, 2-4 lin. long, somewhat unequal, acu- 
minate, more or less distinctly 3-ribbed. Corolla brick-red ; tube 10-15 
lin. long, sharply curved and inflated about 2} lin. from the apex, 
glandular-hairy except at the glabrous base ; limb 2-lipped, 7-10 lin, in 
1am. ; upper lip broadly obovate to transversely oblong, 3—4 lin. long, 
43-6 lin. broad, subtruncate or emarginate; lower lip deeply 3-lobed ; 
lobes broadly obovate to obovate-oblong, 43-5} lin. long, 3-4} lin. broad, 
rounded, the median rather larger than the others. Anthers oblong, 
$ lin, long, obtuse. Style nearly as long as the corolla-tube, clavate at 
the apex. Capsule oblong, about 4 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, somewhat 
compressed, beaked.—Cycnium strictum, Eng]. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 361. ; 
Wile Land. British East Africa: near Magi Chumoi, 570 ft., Kassner, 474° 
citi Hamoud, Késsner, 645! Wanga, Smith! Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 
2. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Duga; Holst, 3201. 
Masheua, Holst, 8838 ; Hosiga, Holst, 2532! 
18. S. somaliensis, Skan. Stems erect, 6-12 in. high, simple, 
about I lin. in diam., covered with short fine hairs, few-leaved, bearing 
near the base several pairs of rudimentary leaves or scales; upper 
Internodes 1} in. long. Leaves in 2 or 3 pairs, linear-lanceolate ,14—1} 
im. long, 14-2 lin. broad, acuminate, quite entire or very few-toothed, 
densely and shortly pubescent, somewhat scabrid. Flowers opposite or 
