﻿Linaria.] scrophulaeiace^ (Hiern), 205 



613; Curtis, Fl. Lond. fasc. 3, t 37, Elatinoides spuria, Wettst, 

 in Engl ^ Prantl, Fflanzenfam. iv. 3b, 58. Cymbalaria spuria, 

 GcBrtn., B. Meyer, ^ Scherb. Oekon.-techn. Fl. Wetterau, ii. 398. 

 Nemesia, Dregein Linnaea, xx. 197. 



Coast Eegion .- Cape Div. ; on rubbish heaps and in cultivated places about 

 Capetown, Zey/ier, 3489! Harvey! Eckhn, 364! Bolus, 2985! Kloof below the 

 road to Constantia Nek, Wolley Dod, 2423! railway beyond Wynberg, Wolleii 

 Bod! Introduced. 



Widely distributed over a great part of Europe, also in North Africa and 

 Western Asia, and introduced into North America. 



Harvey, Qen. 8. Afr. PI. ed. i. 256, considered the Cape specimens to border 

 very closely on Linaria lani-jera, Desf., if not the same species ; he pointed out 

 that the species differs remarkably from other Linarias in the dehiscence of the 

 capsule, and that it approaches so closely to Biclis that be could see but little 

 generically to distinguish it. 



XII. ANTIJlRHIKTJir, Tournef. 



Calyx herbaceouSj 5-partite ; segments imbricate in bud, per- 

 sistent. Corolla membranous ; tube not very short, somewhat 

 compressed, saccate or gibbous at the base ; limb bilabiate ; posterior 

 Hp erect, shortly bilobed ; anterior lip spreading, trilobed ; palate 

 bearded, broad, closing the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 

 cluded, ascending, sometimes with a rudimentary fifth ; filaments 

 compressed, filiform ; anthers 2-celled ; cells oblong, parallel. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma small ; ovules numerous. Capsule 

 ovoid or globose, symmetrical or not, dehiscing by valved pores. 

 Seeds oblong, truncate, rugose or nearly smooth. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely suffrutescent ; leaves opposite or alternate, 

 usually entire; flowers axillary or racemose. 



DisTRiB. About 35 species, chiefly inhabiting temperate regions in the 

 northern hemisphere. 



1. A. Orontium (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 617) ; an annual herb, erect 

 or ascending, simple or somewhat branched, dull green, glabrous or 

 sparingly pilose, 6-18 in. high; stem terete, smooth, striate or 

 sulcate, rigid, leafy ; lower branches opposite, upper alternate, erect- 

 patent, pilose chiefly towards the apex; lower leaves opposite, 

 decussate, lanceolate-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, attenuate at the 

 1- or 3-nerved base, sometimes shortly mucronate, 1-2 in. long, 

 i-l in. broad, entire ; upper leaves alternate ; floral leaves narrower, 

 somewhat pilose ; flowers axillary, alternate, rather distant, shortly 

 pedunculate; calyx-segments linear, leafy, pilose-cihate, unequal, 

 l-i in. long ; corolla |-| in. long ; tube about i in. long, beset with 

 a few glandular hairs, rosy, longitudinally purple-lined, posterior hp 

 erect with the lobes turning backwards; anterior lip spreading, 

 lateral lobes subovate, middle one ovate, smaller, suberect and 

 incised at the apex ; palate marked with purple veins ; filaments 



