times speckled with its golden blossoms. It was described 
first from Schousboe’s Maroccan specimen as Antirrhinum 
heterophyllum by Schousboe the Danish Consul and naturalist ; 
then by Poiret, from specimens in Desfontaines’ Herbarium 
(no doubt Algerian) as 4. sagittatum; then by Sweet as L. 
circinnata, a name derived from the recurved leaves of the 
specimens he figured, which are not characteristic of the 
species: his specimens were supposed to be raised from S. 
. American seed. Later still in Visiani (according to Walpers) 
as L. Webbiana, from Canarian specimens; and lastly by 
Delile as Z. Lancerotte. 
Linaria sagittata is a common plant about Magador, and ex- 
tends as far south as Agadir. It is also found in the Island 
of Lancerotte, one of the Canaries, and that one considerably 
the nearest to the Maroccan coast, but in no other island of that 
group, which looks as if it were a comparatively recent im- 
portation that had not as yet spread further to the westward. 
The specimen here figured was raised from seeds brought by 
us from Marocco in 1871, and which flowered in June of the 
— year in Mr. Maw’s garden and in the Royal Gardens, 
ew. 
Drscr. Stems very slender, six to ten feet long, branched, 
subscandent from a woody perennial stock. Leaves scattered, 
distant, petioled, one to one and a half inches long, lanceolate- 
oblong or linear with a hastate base, quite entire, primordial 
forming a rosette at the crown of the stock, sessile, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute. Mowers yellow, axillary, solitary on capillary 
pedicels often exceeding the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla one and a half inches long, lips very broad, upper with 
three short lobes, lower very short with a prominent palate ; 
spur pubescent, exceeding the tube. Capsule globose, bursting 
by two pores. Seeds reniform.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower :—magnified. 
