414 XCII, SCROPHULARIACE® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [Striga. 
late, up 3} in. long and } in. broad, scarcely acute, obtusely serrate, 
3-nerved, shortly pubescent, very scabrid. Spikes terminal, quadrangular, 
densely-flowered, 14-5 in. long, }—} in. broad, densely covered with 
slender glandular hairs; bracts broadly ovate to obovate, 2$—4} lin. long, 
15-24 lin. broad, obtuse or acute ; bracteoles lanceolate, 2}—3 lin. long. 
Calyx 1-4 in. long, 10- or 11-nerved, 5-toothed, densely glandular- 
pubescent ; teeth triangular, 1-1} lin. long, thick. Corolla white, pilose 
outside ; tube 84-10 lin. long, slender, sharply curved near the apex; 
upper lip very broadly obovate, 15-2 lin. long, 34 lin. broad, subtruncate 
or somewhat emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes obovate-oblong, 
24-31 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad. Style about }$ in. long. Capsule 
ellipsoid-ovoid, 34 Jin. long, 2 lin. broad—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 780. Buchnera macrantha, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 
Mag. i. 866. B. Buettneri, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 72, t. 3, figs. 
T—U,, and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 314. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 607! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 34! 
Sierra Leone : about Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 4474! Winwood Reade ! Bumban 
to Port Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 5677! Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 4455! Togo: Bismarck- 
burg, Kling, 179, 180, 183, and without precise locality, Buettner, 350. Lagos, 
Millen! Millson, 39! Rowland! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 985! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; mountains of Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 
5907! Quibola, Monteiro ! 
23. S. Warneckei, Engl. MSS. An erect rather slender herb 
12-18 in. high, thinly covered with fine somewhat short spreading hairs, 
scabrid; stems simple, leafy, with short internodes. Leaves opposite, 
narrowly linear, up to 14 in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, obtuse, somewhat 
incurved along the margins. Spikes terminal, interrupted, very slender, 
2 in. long or more; flowers alternate; bracts linear, leaf-like below, 
gradually becoming shorter upwards, hispidly hairy ; bracteoles linear, 
i lin. long, hispidly hairy. Calyx 21-2} lin. long, scarious, 5-nerved, 
irregularly slit into 5 linear-triangular acuminate teeth, rather long 
and hispidly hairy on the upper part and on the teeth. Corolla-tube 
about 24 lin. Jong, somewhat constricted in the middle, inflated above, 
but scarcely curved, thinly 10-nerved, very minutely pubescent and 
sprinkled over with minute capitate blackish glands; upper lip > lin. 
long, % lin. broad, truncate ; lobes of the lower lip oblong, scarcely $ lin. 
long. Style 1} lin. long, truncate and somewhat triangular at the 
apex, 
Upper Guinea. Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 201! 
24. S. Baumannii, Lngl.in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 515,t. 12, figs. O—T. 
A tall glaucous-green glabrous herb with a short stock and strong 
branched roots; stems 2-4 or sometimes more, slender, 14-3 ft. high, 
sometimes sparingly branched near the middle, terete below with long 
internodes, quadrangular above with shorter internodes. Leaves @ 
small, scale-like, closely adpressed to the stem, the lower ovate oF 
oblong-ovate, acuminate, only 14-2} lin. long and 1 lin. broad, opposite. 
Spikes very slender, 4-12 in. long, remotely-flowered below; bracts 
