Serophularia. — Sutera. 871 
1222. (3.) Scrophularia hypericifolia Wydler Mém. Soe. Phys. 
Genev. IV (1828), p. 166 tab. 5. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 424. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.116 no. 786. — Aschers. Flor. 
Sirb., p. 811 no. 29. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 264. — 
Stiefelhag. Monograph. Scroph. in Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. XLIV (1910), 
p.476. — Scrophularia Saharae Batt. and Trab. Flor. de l’Alg., p.634. 
— Scrophularia syriaca Benth. in DC. Prodrom X, p.316. — A 
perennial plant, 30—35 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
glabrous, shrubby at the base, many stemmed, almost leafless, dicho- 
tomously branched, ending in depauperated thyrsi. Leaves 1 cm 
long, entire. Cymes short-peduncled, bifid, 3—5-flowered; bracts 
and bracteoles minute, triangular; flowers sessile, small; calyx-lobes 
orbicular, white-margined, stamens included; scale small; capsule. 
Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Bir-el-Abid; Bir-el-Masar. — D. i. Salihiya; Tell-el- 
Kebir; between Ramses and Ismailia. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Arabia Petraea, Palestine 
and Syria. 
498. (6.) Sutera Roth. 
Calyx usually 5-partite, sometimes 5-lobed; segments or lobes 
linear, lanceolate or rarely ovate, imbricate, not membranous. Corolla 
deciduous, tubular; tube shorter or much longer than the calyx, 
usually slender, cylindric below or funnel-shaped, nearly straight or 
more or less curved towards the apex, gibbous on the upper side 
near the apex or more or less dilated at the throat or sometimes 
nearly entirely cylindric; limb spreading, 5-lobed, more or less 
regular or 2-lipped; lobes entire, emarginate or bifid, subequal, im- 
bricate in bud, the 2 uppermost outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
affixed, to the corolla-tube, more or less exserted or the upper or 
all of them included; filaments filiform; anthers all perfect, 1-celled 
by confluence, reniform. Style filiform, included or exserted, some- 
what clavate above; stigma obtuse. Capsule septicidal; valves bifid. 
Seeds many, small, rugose. — Glabrous, pubescent, sometimes vis- 
cid herbs, undershrubs or small shrubs often drying blackish. Leaves 
mostly opposite, dentate, incised or dissected, rarely entire. Bracts 
usually similar to the leaves, free from the pedicels. Flowers 
axillary or in terminal racemes or in simple or compound cymes 
or spikes; pedicels ebracteolate or rarely bracteolate. 
Species 123, most numerous in South Africa. 1 in the Canaries. 
1223. Sutera glandulosa Roth Nov. Plant. Spec. (1867), p. 291. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 423. — Benth. and DC. Prodrom. X, p. 362. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. lll. Flor. d’Eg., p.116 no. 787. — Sickenberg. 
