868 Serophulariaceae. 
more, glabrous, glaucescent, simple or branching from the neck; 
stems simple or sparingly branched. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to 
oblong, tapering at the base. 4—7 mm broad, lowest in threes or 
opposite. Flowers 6—8 mm long, few, nearly capitate, at length 
loosely spiked; bract linear, nearly as long as the calyx; calyx-lobes 
linear-oblong, nearly as long as the corolla; corolla whitish, with 
violet tube, and yellowish palate; capsule 5mm long, as long as or 
longer than the growing calyx; seeds ovate, obtuse, puncate-pitted. 
— Flow. January to March. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West and -EKast; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. 
Brullus; el-Arish; re-Khariba; el-Grady; — D. a. sept. Belbeys. 
Also known from Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Trans- 
caueasia and Persia. 
496. (4.) Antirrhinum Tournef. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube saccate or 
gibbous at the base, not spurred; upper lip erect, shortly 2-lobed; 
lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, produced at the base into a prominent 
palate which often closes the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascend- 
ing, included; filaments filiform or dilated at the apex; anther-cells 
distinct, oblong, parallel. Style filiform; stigma small. Ovules 
numerous in each cell. Capsule ovoid or globose, sometimes ob- 
lique, with the posticous cell dehiscing by one pore and the anticous 
cell by two manytoothed pores, sometimes equal with one pore to 
each cell. Seeds oblong, truncate, rugose or rather smooth. — An- 
aual or perennial herbs, more rarely undershrubs, sometimes climb- 
ing. Lower leaves alternate, rarely opposite, the upper alternate, 
all quite entire or rarely lobed. Flowers solitary, axillary or in 
terminal racemes; pedicels ebracteate. Corolla usually showy, rose- 
coloured, purple, pale-yellow or white. 
Species about 35, chiefly in the temperate regions of the northern 
hemisphere, especially in North America. 
1219. Antirrhinum Orontium L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.617. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 385. — Benth. in DC. Prodrom. X, p. 290. 
—— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p. 116 no. 784. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Kg., Supplem. p. 770. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., 
p. 802 no. 196. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar, p. 661 
no. 236. —- An erect branched biennial, a few em to 60 em high; 
stem and branches more or less glandular-hairy, especially in the 
upper parts, or glabrescent. Leaves 2—5 cm long, 2—9 mm (usually 
about 5 mm) broad, lanceolate to linear, acute, subacute or obtuse, 
clabrous or sometimes remotely ciliate, entire. Inflorescence a rigid 
