458 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEX (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). | Micrargeria, 
scopiformis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 313. S. filiformis, G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 560. S. filiformis, Hiern in Cat, Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 772. Gerardia 
filimormis, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 272. 
Upper Guinea. (Gold Coast: near Ningo and Prampram, Thouning. Shai 
Plains, Johnson, 576! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 271! 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2294! Bongo: Sabbi River, 
Schweinfurth, 2736! between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 5830! 
near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5831! near Manonge on the River Kuebe, about 4500 ft., 
Baum, 851. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Duga, Holst, 3191! 
lower plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Portuguese East Africa : Querimba 
(Kerimba) Islands, Peters. British Central Africa; Nyasaland; Kondowe to 
Karonga, 2000-6000 tt., Whyte! Manganja Hills, 4000 ft., Airk! 
Thomson’s specimen from the north of Lake Nyasa has a densely puberulous 
capsule. 
2. M. Barteri, Skan. In every respect the same as J/. scopi- 
formis, except that all the green parts are glabrous and smooth instead 
of minutely puberulous and scabrid, and the capsule slightly larger 
(2-24 lin. in diam.). 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, in wet places, Barter, 
1706! 
755! 
d+. BARTSIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 977. 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, usually 4-lobed, some of the lobes 
sometimes again divided or toothed. Corolla-tube slender and cylin- 
drical with a distinctly 2-lipped limb, or ventricose with an almost 
equally 5-lobed limb; when 2-lipped, the upper lip helmet-shaped 
enclosing the stamens, the lower lip 3-lobed, spreading; corolla almost 
personate in one species. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anther- 
cells 2, equal, parallel, usually bearded and mucronate. Style entire, 
capitate or tongue-shaped, included or slightly exserted. Capsule 
globose, ovoid or oblong and compressed, usually exceeding the calyx, 
septicidal ; valves often splitting to the middle ; placenta thick or thin. 
Seeds numerous, oblong or reniform, longitudinally ribbed or winged. 
—Herbs, usually erect, annual or perennial, sometimes shrubby, usually 
hispid or viscous. Leaves opposite, crenate, serrate, pinnatifid or 
entire, gradually smaller upwards. Flowers solitary in the axils, 
sessile or shortly pedicellate, ebracteolate, lower often distant, upper 
densely clustered. 
Species about 60, inhabiting Europe, extra-tropical Asia, North Africa, and 
mountains of Tropical Africaaud America. ‘T'wo or three species are widely dispersed. 
as colonists. 
Annual. Corolla almost personate ; lower lip unequally 
3-lobed ; palate inflated in two ridges; seeds rela- 
tively small, longitudinally ribbed or striate. . 1. B. Trizage. 
