872 Scrophulariaceae. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 264. — Sutera dissecta Walp. Rep. HI, p.271. 
— Capraria dissecta Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., p.95 tab. 32 fig.3, — 
_Jamesbrittenia O. Ktze. Gen. Plant. II, p. 461. — Branches g—22 cm 
long, decumbent or ascending, terete, slender. Leaves 1—2 em 
long, 5—10 mm broad, ovate or oblong, incised-dentate, pinnatifid 
or dissected, narrowed at the. base, petiolate. Pedicels 2—5 mm 
long, slender. Calyx 2'/, mm long; segments linear-oblanceolate, 
subacute. Corolla 5 mm long, nearly white; lobes 1 mm long, 
1,5 mm broad. Capsule as long as or slightly longer than the 
calyx. — Flow. March to April. 
N.d. N.v. Not common on fields margin. 
Also known from Tropical Africa, Arabia and India. 
499. (7.) Lindenbergia. | 
Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla bilabiate; tube cylindrie; 
posticous lip inside, short, broad, emarginate or 2-lobed, erect- 
spreading; anticous lip larger, 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didy- 
namous, included; filaments filiform; anther-cells distinct, separated, 
stipitate, all bearing pollen. Style filiform, subclavate at the apex. 
Capsule oblong or ovoid, bisulcate, dehiscence loculicidal; valves 
entire. Seeds many, minute, semi-immersed in the fleshy placentas. 
_ — Annual or perennial herbs, hard at the base, rarely undershrubs, 
decumbent or ascending, villous or more rarely glabrescent. Leaves 
opposite or the upper alternate, dentate. Flowers subsessile, solitary 
in the axils of the Jeaves.or in terminal spikes or racemes; bracts 
foliaceous; bracteoles 0. 
Species 14, in North-east Africa, Arabia, India, Malaya and China. 
1224. Lindenbergia sinaica Benth. in Scrophul. Ind. (1835), 
p. 22. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.425. — Aschers.-Schweinf. III. Flor. 
d’Ee., p. 116 no. 789. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 264. — 
Bovea sinaica Deecsne. in Ann. Scienc. Natur., sér. 2 Vol. If p. 523. — 
An perennial herb, 50—60 cm high or rarely more, stem erect or 
erect-spreading, usually more or less crooked, simple or usually few- 
branched, sharply quadrangular, slightly twisted, minutely glandular- 
pubescent, leafy; branches opposite or alternate, 2'/,—6'/, cm long, 
erect-spreading, often crooked; internodes 8—30 cm long. Leaves 
opposite, sessile or short-petioled, broadly ovate or the lowermost 
pair shortly oblong, very thin, somewhat acute, obtuse or rounded, 
rounded at the base, minutely and very sparingly glandular-pubes- 
cent, toothed; lowermost leaves 2—2,5 cm long, 1—-1,5 em broad; 
upper 1—2 cm long, 1—1,5 em broad, becoming gradually smaller 
from below upwards; teeth usually 4 or 5 each side, very small. 
