Striga. | XCII. SCROPHULARIACEZ (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 413 
covered with short stiff hairs, usually very scabrid; stem simple or 
freely branched ; branches erect-spreading. Leaves mostly alternate, 
linear to linear-lanceolate, }-2 in. long, 3-2 lin. broad, rather acute, 
entire or few-toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary, alternate, forming 
long lax terminal spikes; lower bracts leaf-like, the upper linear to 
subulate, 2—4 lin. long, shortly and finely pubescent ; bracteoles linear, 
1}-2 lin. long, otherwise as the bracts. Calyx tubular, 5—54 lin. long, 
prominently 15-ribbed, 5-toothed, hispidly pubescent ; teeth lanceolate, 
slightly unequal, 14—1# lin. long, elongating in the fruiting stage, acute. 
Corolla rather densely white-pilose on the upper part of the tube and 
on the outside of the limb; tube about } in. long, abruptly curved 
about 4 in. from the base and inflated at the curve; upper lip broadly 
obovate, emarginate or truncate, 14-2 lin. long, 2-2} lin. broad ; lobes 
of the lower lip narrowly obovate to obovate-oblong, 25-3 lin. long, 
1{-1} lin. broad, obtuse. Capsule ovoid, } in. long, 13 lin. broad, 
apiculate ; valves recurved at the apex after dehiscence.—DC. Prodr. x. 
903; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 299. Buchnera euphrasioides, Vahl, 
Symb, iii. 81; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 855. 
Mozamb. Dist. Britisii Central Africa: Nyasaland; Fort Hill, Tanganyika 
Plateau, 3500-4000 ft, Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 6500 ft., Me Clounie, 178! 
Also in India, Ceylon and Java. 
21. S. Klingii, Shan. An erect annual herb about 1 ft. high, 
drying green or brown, densely covered with fine but very stiff grey 
hairs which are much thickened at the base; stem simple or shortly 
branched near the apex, quadrangular, about 1} lin. thick, somewhat 
leafy. Leaves opposite, linear-oblong to lanceolate, }—1} in. long, 2-3} 
lin. broad, obtuse, slightly narrowed at the base, entire or with a few 
obscure teeth, thick, callose at the apex, extremely secabrid. Spikes 
terminal, cylindric, 3-4 in. long, } in. broad, densely-flowered, often 
with 1 or more short spikes just below the terminal one; bracts imbri- 
cate, broadly lanceolate, about } in. long, 14-1} lin. broad, acuminate, 
with long stiff hairs on the margin and short ones on both surfaces ; 
bracteoles linear, 2-3 lin. long, stiffly hairy. Calyx about 3b lin. long, 
10-ribbed (4 of the ribs very prominent), 5-toothed, stiffly hairy ; teeth 
narrowly triangular to linear, acuminate, unequal, ats lin. long. 
Corolla red, rather densely pubescent outside; tube 5 lin. long, curved 
and slightly inflated from the middle to the apex; upper lip somewhat 
quadrate, emarginate, scarcely 1 lin. long and broad ; lower lip 3-lobed ; 
lobes elliptic-oblong, 14-13 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad. Style 2} lin. long, 
clavate and emarginate at the apex. Capsule oblong, 2-2 } lin. long and 
nearly 1 lin. broad, apiculate—Buchnera Klingii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. 
Xvili. 72, t. 3, figs. R—S. 
Upper Guinea. Togo : Assumafaru, Buettner, 293. Ketschem Timoy, Buettner, 
221! Northern N igeria : Borgu, in swamps, Barter, 758 ! 
22. S. macrantha, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 503. A somewhat 
stout erect herb 2-4 ft. high; stem usually branched above, quadrangular, 
bisuleate, scabridly hairy. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate to lanceo- 
