Lindenbergia. — Herpestis. 873 
Flowers few or many in loose spike-like terminal or lateral racemes, 
one to each pair of bracts; bracts broadly ovate, 3—1 lin. long and 
broad, becoming smaller from below upwards, unequal in size in 
each pair, the smaller subtending the flower, coarsely few-toothed; 
pedicels 0,5—1,5 mm long. Calyx 5—5!'/, mm long, rather densely 
but minutely glandular-pubescent; teeth narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
2%/, mm long, acuminate. Corolla-yellow, 5'/,—6 mm long; tube 
5mm long, 1 mm broad; upper lip oblong-ovate, about 2'/, mm 
long, minutely denticulate, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip about 5 mm 
long and 51/, mm broad, with a small crest of golden-yellow clavate 
hairs in the middle; lobes rounded, about 2mm in diam., minutely 
denticulate. Anticous filaments with a golden-yellow knee-like appen- 
dage about 5 mm long at the base. Capsule globose-obovoid, four 
times as long as the calyx, obtuse, glabrous. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Rare in the Wadies. 
Local name: sugget (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Syria. 
500. (8.) Herpestis Gaertn. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments oblong or elliptic or the lateral lanceo- 
late. Corolla shortly infundibuliform-campanulate, 3-—5-fid; lobes 
concave or cucullate, imbricate, unequal. Stamens 3—-4, sometimes 
2 or 5, affixed to the throat of the corolla, exserted; filaments short; 
anthers rather large, 2-celled; cells parallel. Style dilated at the 
apex, very slightly 2-lobed. Ovules many. Capsule ovoid or ellip- 
soid; valves-entire. Seeds many, oblong, incurved, pendulous, striate, 
carunculate at the hilum. — Slender hairy or glabrous creeping or 
prostrate herbs growing in marshy places and on wet rocks. Leaves 
opposite, sessile, 3—7-nerved, entire or crenate at the apex. Flowers 
small, white, pedunculate in the axils of the leaves, ebracteolate. 
Species 2 or 3, also in Guatemala, Western Tropical South America. 
1225. Herpestis Monnieria H. B. K. Nov. Gen. and Spec. U 
(1817), p. 366. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 426. — Bot. Mag., tab. 
2557. — lLimosella calycina Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 112. — 
Gratiola Momiera L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 24. — A perennial plant, 
smooth-stems creeping; leaves fleshy, wedge-ovate. Calyx 5 parted; 
the 3 outer lobes, especially the upper one, broader. Corolla bell- 
shaped. 5-lobed or bilabiate, with the upper lip 2-lobed or emar- 
ginate, the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther cells 
contiguous or divaricate. Style dilated and flattened at the appex. 
Capsule 2-valved, many-seeded. — Flow. March. 
D. a sept. Sweet-water canal near Suez (Deflers). 
Also known from Tropical South America. 
