412 XCII. SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Striga. 
subopposite in loose terminal spikes 4—7 in. long, the lower sometimes 
widely separated from the rest; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
2-7 lin. long or the lowest up to 1 in. long, acute or acuminate, densely 
and shortly pubescent, more or less scabrid ; bracteoles linear, 14-34 
lin. long, densely pubescent. Calyx 4—1} in. long, densely and hispidly 
pubescent outside and inside, the hairs inside longer and somewhat 
adpressed, 15- or 16-ribbed ; teeth triangular-lanceolate, 14-37 lin. Jong, 
acuminate, somewhat unequal. Corolla orange-red ; tube 3—} in, long, 
sharply curved and slightly inflated near the apex, thinly covered 
except at the glabrous base with rather long gland-tipped hairs; limb 
i1-12 lin. in diam., 2-lipped; upper lip broadly obovate, 4—5 lin. long, 
6-7 lin. broad, deeply emarginate; lobes rounded ; lower lip deeply 
3-lobed ; lobes oblong or obovate-oblong, 6-7 lin. long, 3$—4 lin. broad, 
slightly apiculate. Anthers narrowly oblong, } lin. long, obtuse. Style 
about 54 lin. long, dilated at the apex. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ononuf, James & Thrupp ! 
19. S. pubiflora, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 227. A 
slender erect herb, 1 ft. high; stem simple or branched above, slender, 
quadrangular, glabrous below, somewhat scabrid towards the apex. 
Leaves opposite below, alternate above, linear, 10-15 lin. long, 1 lin. 
broad, subacute, attenuated at the base, quite entire, revolute on the 
margin, white-subtuberculate-scabrid. Flowers 4-9, alternate, in loose 
spikes terminating the stem and branches, shortly pedicellate ; bracts 
and bracteoles subulate, scabrid, 2-5 lin. long. Calyx tubular, lo- 
ribbed, scabrid, 5-toothed, 53 lin. long; teeth lanceolate-subulate, 13 
lin. long, scabrid inside and outside. Corolla salver-shaped, 2-lipped ; 
tube 10 lin. long, narrow, villous, geniculate-incurved and somewhat 
inflated above the middle; upper lip broadly truncate-obovate, 4 as 
long as the lower; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes obovate, } in. Jong, 2 lin. 
broad, finely pubescent on the margins and outside. Capsule PG 
long, 2 lin. broad, compressed, acute ; valves recurved at the apex after 
dehiscence.—Eng]. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Peters. : 
Var. sansibarensis, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. Stem up tu 18 in. high, scabridly 
pubescent everywhere, but more densely towards the apex. Calyx 3-% in. long 5 
teeth up to } in. long. Corolla white ; tube 1-12 in. long, straight below, curved 
and inflated from 2-3 lin. below the apex; upper lip 4 in. long and 4 in. broad ; 
lobes of lower lip 3-% in. long, 5-54 lin. broad. Capsule ovoid, about 3 lin. long 
and 2} lin. broad.—Striga zanzibarensis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 310. : 
Wile Gand. British East Africa: coast near Lamu Island, Hildebrandt, 
1907! Wateruma (Duruma), Kassner, 134! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Mafia Island, Kirk! Usambara 5 
Tanga, Heinsen, 87! Muoa, Holst, 2989! Usagara, Kirk/ Portuguese Eat 
Africa: in swamps at Dondo, near Beira, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 247! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1174! 
20. S. euphrasioides, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364. 
An erect annual herb, 6-18 in. high, almost glabrous or more or less 
