﻿384 scROPHULARiACE^. (Hiem) . [8tnga. 



Junod remarked on the plant : " Sifsinyambita, generic name of Striga, 

 applied especially to S. luiea, that is to say, the herb which hinders the cooking- 

 pot, because the negroes pretend that such is the result produced when the plant 

 or one of its congeners is thrown on the hearth fire (Schinz, I.e.). 



6. S. Forbesii (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364) ; an 

 erect herb, scabrid, greenish, simple or somewhat branched, annual, 

 1-2 ft. high ; stem furrowed, leafy, comparatively robust, puberulous- 

 scabrid, hispidulous towards the apex, not pubescent ; middle 

 internodes about equalling or exceeding the leaves ; leaves opposite 

 or subopposite, lanceolate or oval-oblong, obtuse or somewl^at 

 wedge-shaped at the sessile base, subherbaeeous, scabrid on both 

 faces and on the margin, otherwise glabrous, unequally dentate, 

 1-2-J in. long, ^--^ in. broad ; flowers spicate, scarlet or orange, 

 rather few, subsessile, about 1 in. long ; spikes lax, elongating ; 

 bracts mostly much exceeding the calyx ; bracteoles linear-subulate 

 or sublanceolate, about i— ^ in. long in flower, ciliolate ; calyx narrow, 

 about I in. long, hispidulous ; tube about -1--} in. long, lO-ribbed ; 

 lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, ^-^ in. long in flower, 

 elongating in fruit ; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, sparingly 

 puberulous, nearly 1 in. long, somewhat dilated and much curved 

 near the apex ; limb spreading ; lobes obovate, a_a in. long ; throat 

 finely pilose; capsules ovoid-oval, i in. long. Benth. in -DO. 

 Frodr. x. 503. Bitchnera Forbesii, D. Dietr. Syn. PL iii. 526. 



Kalahaki Eegion : Bechuanaland ; by the Limpopo River, in Bakwena 

 territory, about 3500 ft., Holuh .' 



Eastern Region : Natal ; at or near Krantz Kop, McKen, 24 ! Inanda, 

 Wood, 8 ; 440 ! 7500 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 424 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 



XXXVIII. BUTTOHIA, McKen. 



Cali/x campanulate, widening in fruit, shortly 4- or 5-lobed ; lobes 

 shortly ovate, valvate in bud. Corolla-tube broadly funnel-shaped, 

 somewhat curved and ventricose, expanding above into a wide throat , 

 limb oblique, spreading, 5-lobed, membranous ; lobes rounded, not 

 very unequal, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, scarcely 

 exserted ; filaments filiform, flexuous, inserted on the upper part of the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers approximating in pairs ; one cell of each anther 

 oblong, mucronate at the base, perfect ; the other cell in the shorter 

 stamens empty flexuous vermiform and in the longer stamens empty 

 very short rudimentary. Ovanj 2-celIed, oval, obtuse; ovules 

 numerous ; style filiform, exceeding the stamens, curved into a 

 crozier at the apex, exserted ; stigma not thickened. Capsule 

 subglobose, loculicidal, included in the enlarged calyx, ^^^f"^ 

 numerous, conical-oblong, truncate at each end ; testa loose, hyalme, 

 reticular. 



A slender climbing shrub, almost herbaceous; leaves opposite, pinnatisect (m 

 our species), turning dusky in drying; flowers handsome, rather large, axUlary. 

 DisTRiB. Species about 3, the others in Tropical Africa. 



