Antirrhinom. — Serophularia. 869 
distant-flowered raceme; bracts similar to the upper leaves but 
smaller; pedicels very short, usually hispidly glandular-hairy. Calyx 
sparingly hispidly hairy; segments 8';,—14 mm long or sometimes 
longer, linear, unequal, acute. Corolla 8—20 mm long, rose-coloured 
with purple veins. Capsule 8—10 mm long, obliquely ovoid, hispidly 
hairy. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma, Marmarica: Matruga; Dakalla; Abusir; Mariut; Alexan- 
dria-West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. N.d. N.f. N. v. 
Often on cultivated ground. — D.i. Wady-el-‘Arish. — D. a. sept. 
Rare in the wadies. 
Also known from Europe, Morvcco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia 
Petraea, Syria and Persia. 
497. (5.) Serophularia Linn. 
Calyx deeply 5-fid or 5-partite; segments usually obtuse, some- 
times orbicular and scarious on the margins, rarely rather acute. 
Corolla-tube ventricose, globose or oblong; lobes 5, short, flat, 4 
(including the 2 posticous, which are usually larger) erect; anticous 
lobe spreading. Perfect stamens 4, didynamous, affixed to the 
corolla-tube, declinate, included or exserted, filaments filiform or 
rather thick; staminode posticous, scale-like, affixed to the apex of 
the corolla-tube, or wanting; anther-cells confluent, transverse. Style 
filiform; stigma minute or more rarely capitate. Ovules numerous 
in each cell. Capsule ovoid or subglobose, usually acute, septicidal; 
valves entire or bifid. Seeds ovoid, rugose, not winged. — Glabrous 
or hirsute, often foetid herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or 
the upper alternate, entire, incised or dissected, often with pellucid 
dots. Inflorescence a terminal simple or branched thyrsus of lax 
cymes. Flowers rather small, greenish-purple, purple or yellow. 
Species about 120, in the extratropical regions of the northern hemi- 
sphere. 
A. Staminodes orbicular or reniform. 
I. Lobes of the leaves obtuse. ....... 1. S. deserti. 
If. Lobes of the leayes acute .... . ... . 2. §. xanthoglossa. 
B, Staminodes linear or filiform. ........ 3. S. hypericifolia. 
1220. (1.) Scrophularia deserti Delile [lustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1813), 
p- 96 tab. 33 fig. 1. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor, d’Eg., p. 116 
no. 785. — Stiefelhagen in Engler’s Botan. Jahrb. XLIV (1910), 
p. 473. — Sickenberg Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 265. — Scrophularia 
sinaica Benth. in DC. Prodrom. X (1846), p.314. — A perennial 
plant, 40—50 em high or sometimes somewhat more, glabrous, 
