﻿Striga.'] scrophulariace/t: (Hiern), 383 



obtuse, somewhat narrowed at the sessile narrowly decurrent base, 

 |-2i in. long, ^j^-^ in. broad, entire, spreading or suberect ; flowers 

 carmine or bright scarlet in our specimens, rather numerous, about 

 -} in. long, sessile or subsessile ; spikes rather dense, slender, leafy, 

 elongating; bracts linear-subulate, usually exceeding the calyx, 

 adpressed below to the calyx ; bracteoles subulate, shorter than the 

 calyx-tube, adpressed, rigid, scabrid ; calyx narrow, about l in. long ; 

 tube turbinate at the base in flower, rounded at the base in fruit, 

 lO-ribbed, scabrid, about ^ in. long; lobes 5, lanceolate, subulate, 

 somewhat unequal, xV~tV ^°- ^^"8 j corolla-tube subcylindrical, 

 about ^-i in. long, slender, minutely glandular-pubernlous outside, 

 finely pilose within, rather strongly bent above the middle ; limb 

 spreading; lobes obovate, -J— ^ in. long; upper lip much shorter than 

 the lower ; stamens glabrous, inserted above the middle of the 

 corolla-tube ; capsules minutely glandular-papillose, oval-oblong, 

 included in the calyx, about | in. long, yV in. broad. Benth. in 

 Hook. Gornp. Bot. Mag. i. 363. Buchnera asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 

 i. 630, and partly Linn, herb., fide Benth. in DC. Prodi: x. 503. 

 Campuleia eoccinea, Hool: Exot. Fl. iii. 203, with coloured plate 

 {inaccurate as to the calyx). B. coecinea, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3870, 

 a7id Scrophul Ind. 40 ; not of Scopoli. S. coecinea, Benth. in Hook. 

 Camp. Bot. Mag. i. 364 ; Beidh. ex Brege, Cat. PI. Exsice. Afr. 

 Austr. 3, and in Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 139, 158, 159, 

 224 ; not of Scop. S. hirsuta. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502. ti. 

 hdea, var. coecinea, 0. Kvntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 240. 



Coast Region : Fort Beaufort Div. ; Kat River Poort, Brege, 4036a ! 

 Batliiirst Div. ; betweea Tiieopolis and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3964 ! 



Kalahaei Region: Beclmaaaland ; Mafeking. Bolus, 6431! Transvaal; 

 Matabele Valley, Holuh ! near Pretoriii, Kirlc, 41 ! Kantse ! Hill-sules, Barber- 

 ton, Oaljpin, 834 ! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1227 ! 



Eastern Region, ascending to 2500 ft. : Griqualand East ; about Uydesdalo, 

 Tyson, 2051 ! and in MacOivan, Sf Bolus Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 1222 ! 150/ . 

 I^atal ; near the Umkoraanzi River, Drege, 40366 ! O.nblas River Heights 

 Drege; Durban, Dr^ge ! Sanderson !■ Hallack, il I luanda. Wood, 16 1 awl 

 without precise locality, Sutherland'. Gueinzius I Delagoa Bay; lorhes. Junod, 

 129! 



Also in Tropical Africa, the Mascarene and Malay Islands, and hotter parts of 

 Asia. 



It is called "the pest" in Natal, destroying crops of Indian corn (R. Hallack 

 ttis. in herb. Harvey) ; see also Natal Agric. Journ. m. 65. 



5. S. Jnnodii (Schinz in Mem. Herb. Boiss. x. 62) ; herbaceous 

 hispid, 16 in. high and more, branched chiefly from the base ; habit 

 of S. Ivtea, Lour.: stems slender; leaves linear, about ^m. long; 

 racemes simple, lax ; flowers shortly pedicellate ; calyx- tube about 

 I ill. long, plainly marked with commissural ribs and a so with ribs 

 >vhich extend longitudinally so as to traverse the lobes; lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, about | in. long; corolla-tube about J m. long, 

 lobes obovate, apparently red or orange in the living state. 



Eastern Rkgion : Delagoa Bay, Jh no (i, 183! 193! 



