﻿380 scEOPHULABiACE.E (Hiern). [Striga. 



7 1. S. orobanchoides (Benth.in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 361, t. 

 ^xix.) ; a parasitical herb, finely pilose or very nearly glabrous, 3-12 in. 

 high, turning dusky in drying ; stem simple or branched, sulcata, 

 purplish in the living state ; leaves all scale-like, small, opposite or 

 the upper scattered, numerous, oval, ovate or lanceolate, obtuse or 

 the upper acute, sessile, entire, concave ad pressed, the floral about 

 \ in. long by J in. broad, the lower smaller ; flowers about |- in. 

 fong, numerous, spicate, pink, purple or red ; spikes terminal, 

 elongated, dense above, interrupted below ; pedicels very short, 

 opposite or the upper subopposite or alternate; bracteoles lanceo- 

 late, ciliate, hispidulous, subacute, adpressed to the calyx, about 

 \-\ in. long; calyx \-\ in. long, 5-ribbed, hispidulous, 5-cleft ; 

 lobes lanceolate, acuminate, about J in. long ; corolla-tuba slender, 

 strongly bent near the apex ; limb about \-\ in. in diam. ; lobes 5, 

 glabrous, -^^-\ in. long, lowest one the largest, two lateral obovate 

 and slightly retuse, two upper recurved, smaller than the others, 

 oblong, obtuse; stamens all glabrous and perfect; style slender, 

 somewhat shorter than the corolla-tube, persistent ; stigma thickened, 

 entire ; capsule oval-oblong, about \ in. long ; seeds minute, slightly 

 pitted. Bmtli. in DC. Prodr. x. 501. Buchnera gesnerioides, 

 Willd. Sp. PL iii. 338. B. orobanchoides, P. Br. iitSalt, Voy. 

 Abyss. App. Ixiv., nmne only ; Endl. in Flora, 1832, ii. 387, ?. ■-• 

 Orohanche varia, E. Meyer ex Brege, Gat. PL Exsicc. Afr. Austr. 4. 

 Psammostachys varia, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 91. Barweya varia. Book. 

 ex Presl, I.e. Harveya varia, Renter in DC. Prodr. xi. 39. S. gesne- 

 rioides, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, U ; S. gesneriodes, 

 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 240. 



Coast Region: Uitenliage Div. ; Stcenbok Flats, EcUon ; ueai- the 

 Zwartkops Eiver, EcfeJon / Fort Beaufort Div.; near Fort Beaufort, Ecklon. 

 Cathtart Div.; between Sliiloh and Windvogel Berg, Drege ! Komgha Div. ; 

 near the mouth of the Kei River, Flanagan, 1150 ! , 



Central Region : Jansenville Div. ; bills near the Sunday River, vrege. 

 Cradock Div. ; near Cradock, Cooper, 2831 ! Graatf Reinet Div. ; bill* J^^f 

 Graaff Reinet (doubtfully placed here), Bolus, 1663 I Aliwal North Div. ; Wittc 

 Bergen, Drege. 



Westebn Region : Great Namaqualand ; Gamosab on Tafelberg, ScJunz, 

 26! ^ 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Kudns Poort, Pretoria, UelinMnn, 4;i71 • 

 Vaal River, Burlce ! ZeyJier ! Crocodile River, Burke! 



Eastern Begion, between 300 and 5000 ft. : Transkei or Tembuland ; near 

 the Tsomo River, very rare, Mrs. Bowhev, 808 ! Natal ; near Boston, '^V^VJ) 

 Herh. Wood, 8156 1 Umzinyati Falls, Wood, 1248 ! Inanda, Wood, 4270 • 

 4279! Wentworlh Bluff, Sanderson, 456! Tugela River, Gerrard Sf ^<^^^^' 

 1825 ! Tongaat, McKen, 6 ! Delagoa Bay, Forhes, 102 ! Junod, 206, 481, 48^, 

 Kuntze. 



Also in Tropical Africa and India. 



It is parasitical on the roots of rushes, Sansevieria, Indigojera, Balbergid, 

 Bulsamea, Cissit,s quadrangular is, Linn., Sfc, and forms tubers. 



2. S. Thunbergii (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363) ; a^ 

 erect herb, parasitical, scabrid, hispid, grey-greon, simple or branched, 



