462 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKA). | Bartsia. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro: last zone of vegetation 
below perpetual snow, Kirk! 12000 ft., Johnston! Johannes Ravine 11000- 
12000 ft., Folkens, 1178 ! 
8. B. decurva, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 545. Shrubby, 
1-2 ft. high, distinctly glandular-hairy in almost all parts. Stems 
rigidly erect, with few erect or almost adpressed branches. Leaves 
crowded, sessile, thick, oblong, from 6-12 lin. long, bullate-crenate 
recurved when dry and adpressed to the branches. Flowers very 
shortly stalked, about 1 in. long. Calyx 4-5 lin. long, unequally 
5-lobed, the posterior one much shorter, the others narrow-oblong, very 
obtuse and often furnished with one or two obtuse teeth. Corolla more 
than twice as long as the calyx; tube wider and more abruptly curved 
than in B. kilimandscharica, Engl., minutely hairy inside; limb dis- 
tinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip hood-shaped, hairy inside and including the 
bearded mucronate anthers and the clavate style. | Ovary very hairy ; 
style very slightly hairy. Capsule oblong, hairy, a little longer than 
the calyx. Seeds not seen.—A. Rich. Tent. F]. Abyss. ii. 135. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: side of Mount Silki, Schimper, 1329! Ghaba 
Valley, Steudner, 798! 
Some of the Andine species are remarkably like this and B. similis, notably B. 
santolinefolia, Beuth., the Euphrasia santolinefolia, H.B, & K. (Noy. Gen. et Sp. i. 
t. 166). In foliage they are hardly distinguishable. 
OrpEeR XCIII. OROBANCHACER. (By Otto Stapf.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, zygomorphic. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, 
2—5-toothed or -lobed, rarely truncate, or spsthaceous and open in front, 
or consisting of 2 lateral 1-2-toothed or linear divisions which are 
either quite free or more or less united at the base in front. Corolla 
gamopetalous, tubular or funnel-shaped in the upper part, usually 
curved ; limb oblique, 2-lipped or nearly equally 5-lobed ; upper lip 
entire or 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes imbricate, the upper inside. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, usually inserted below the middle of the corolla- 
tube and enclosed in it ; filaments filiform ; anthers dorsifixed, conniving 
or cohering (by means of hairs) in pairs; cells parallel or slightly diverg- 
ing, often mucronate, longitudinally dehiscent, both fertile or one 
empty. Disc hypogynous, obscure or produced anticously into a nectarial 
gland. Ovary superior, 1-celled; carpels 2, median, rarely 3; style 
simple, terminal ; stigma orbicular or 2—3-lobed. Placentas 4, separate 
or contiguous or partly fused in pairs; ovules very numerous, anatro- 
pous. Capsule I-celled, more or less dehiscing with 2 valves. Seeds 
very numerous, small; testa often foveolate-reticulate ; endosperm 
fleshy. Embryo globose, of few cells, undifferentiated——Annual or 
perennial parasitic herbs, almost perfectly destitute of chlorophyll, 
variously coloured, but never green. Stems usually simple, solitary or 
fascicled, more or less fleshy. Leaves reduced to, often fleshy, scales, 
