﻿204 scROPHULARiACK^ (Hiern). [Lhiaria. 



1. L. vulgaris (Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, n. 1) ; a glabrous herb, 

 r5-12 in. high or more, erect ; root fusiform, simple or somewhat 

 branched, flexuous ; stems branched from the base, leafy ; branches 

 and branchlets ascending or erect; leaves alternate, crowded, sub- 

 linear, acute, somewhat narrowed towards the sessile or subsessile 

 base, entire, firm, l-l in. long, gV-rV ^^- ^^oad, trinerved and 

 indistinctly pinnately-veined ; flowers 1-1-^- in. long, about 6-10 

 together arranged in dense terminal racemes ; pedicels minutely 

 glandular-puberulous, I-—} in. long, alternate, erect or erect-patent, 

 bracteate at the base ; bract lanceolate-linear, acute, yV~t ^°* ^^^^ > 

 calyx-segments ovate, obtuse or acuminate, subglabrous, about |^ m. 

 long ; posterior lip of the corolla f-f in. long ; anterior lip about as 

 long ; palate bearded ; spur saccate-subulate, | in. long ; style 

 straight, firmly filiform, l-} in. long ; capsule glabrous, about f in. 

 long ; seeds discoid, -^V i"- diam. Chavannes, Monogr. Antirrhin, 131 ; 

 Benih. in DC. Prodr. x. 273. Antirrhinum Linaria, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 1, 616; Curtis, Fl. Lond. fase. i. t. 47. A. commune, Lam. Fl. 

 F',\ ii. 340. 



Kaxahaei Region : Transvaal ; on the slopes of the Elands River Mountains, 

 6600 tfc., Schlechter, 4003 ! Introduced. 



Widely distributed over Europe and northern Asia, and introduced into north 

 America. 



The Transvaal specimens differ from the ordinary European form of the species 

 by a short and more rigid habit and handsomer flowers. 



2. I. spuria (Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, n. 15) ; an annual herb, 

 shaggy with whitish jointed spreading hairs, glandalar ; stem erect, 

 4-18 in. high, somewhat wiry ; branches several, slender, leafy, 

 striate, branched, the lower procumbent or prostrate, the upper 

 alternate ; leaves alternate or the lower opposite or whorled, ovate or 

 subrotund, obtuse, subacute or minutely apiculate, rounded or some- 

 what excavated at the base, pinnately veined, herbaceous, entire or 

 the lower sometimes with one or more teeth or small lobes on each 

 side, ^-li; in. long, -J-li- in. broad, the lower 1-3 in. long, the upper 

 smaller, bract-like ; petioles short or very short ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, rather numerous, about i— | in. long ; peduncles slender, 

 more or less shaggy, spreading or suberect, ].-l in. long, exceeding 

 the subjacent leaves ; calyx-segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 or pointed, }.~l in. long, hairy, the broader ones subcordate at the base ; 

 corolla about twice as long as the calyx ; spur narrowly conical, 

 acute, perpendicular to the tube, somewhat curving upwards, nearly 

 as long as the rest of the corolla, yellow ; tipper lip dark purple ; 

 lower lip pale yellow ; palate bright yellow ; throat purplish above ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous with a fifth represented by a small scale ; 

 capsule subglobose, pubescent, about i in. in diam., dehiscing on 

 two sides with a round deciduous lid ; seeds ovoid or oblong, some- 

 what compressed, marked with an irregular-network of ridges and 

 intervening deep pits. Chavannes, Monogr. Antirrhin. 105 ; Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 268. Antirrhinum spuriuw, Linn. Sp. PL ad, 1, 



