Sopubia. | XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 445 
terminal racemes or spikes, bracteate; pedicels 2-bracteolate near the 
apex.—(rerdaria, Pres], Bot. Bemerk. 91, without description. Raphido- 
phyllum, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 666. Lhaphidophyllum, Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. x. 521. 
Species 27, mostly in Tropical Africa; a few in South Africa, Madagascar and 
India, one extending to China, the Malay Archipelago and Australia. 
* Flowers in racemes or elongated spikes, rarely in 
short dense spikes when the plant is densely 
tomentose or woolly. 
t+ Leaves, at least some of them, pinnatifid. 
Calyx nearly glabrous outside or sometimes 
scabrid, not woolly. 
Calyx nearly glabrous outside, 13-2} lin. 
long ; pedicels 3-9 lin. Jong. 
Stem simple or sparingly branched ; leaves 
when divided usually with 3 segments ; 
corolla 43-6 lin, in diam. . : : L. 8. trifida. 
Stem very much branched; leaves usually 
with more than 3 segments ; corolla 
4 lin. in diam. . : : : : 
Calyx scabrid outside, 23-23 lin. long ; pedicels 
1-13 lin. long : : - . 3. 8S. similis. 
Calyx more or less woolly. 
Flowers distinctly pediceliate ; calyx sparingly 
woolly . - : : a 
Flowers sessile ; calyx densely woolly 
2. S. Eminit. 
. S. karaguensis, 
. S. Welwitschii. 
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ff Leaves all entire or sometimes minutely denticulate 
(S. Eenii). 
{ Plant glabrous, shortly hairy or scabrid (stem 
densely pilose in S. latifolia), not tomentose or 
woolly. 
Leaves ovate, 3 in. broad, obtuse . ; ‘ 
Leaves filiform to linear-lanceolate, up to 
12 lin. broad, acute. 
Corolla 1 in. in diam.; plant robust, up to 
31 ft. high ; pedicels 73-10 lin. long. 10, S. Buchneri. 
Corolla 5-7 lin. in diam.; plant robust, up 
to 4 ft. high; pedicels 2-2 lin. long 
Corolla 6-8 lin. in diam.; plant rather 
slender, 1-2 ft. high; pedicels usually 
3-6 lin. long. 
Leaves densely crowded ; racemes densely 
6. S. latifolia, 
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. S. ramosa, 
flowered : : ‘ . - 8. S. Mannu. 
Leaves not crowded; racemes not densely 
flowered. 
Calyx 13-22 lin. long ; corolla 6-8 lin. 
in diam. 
Stems sharply angled ; leaves closely 
adpressed ; seeds 3} lin. long 9. S. simplex. 
Stems not sharply angled; leaves 
spreading ; seeds } lin. long. 11. S. dregeana. 
Calyx 14-14 lin. long; corolla 4- 
43 lin, in diam. . : . . 12. S. parviflora. 
