878 Serophulariaceae. 
Sibth. and Smith Flor. graec. I, tab. 8. — An annual plant, procumbent 
30—40 cm long, or sometimes somewhat more. Papillary-pubescent. 
Leaves orbicular to ovate, subcordate, coarsely crenate-serrate, the 
lower ones petioled; the floral ones scarcely smaller. Pedicels much 
longer than the leaves; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, in pairs, divari- 
cating in fruit, longer than the capsule; corolla 1 cm broad, blue, 
broader than the calyx; capsule ciliate, reticulate, twice as broad as 
long, with divaricate, obtusely-triangular lobes, keeled; cells 5—8- 
seeded; style longer than the lobes. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Alexandria. — N. d. Zaqaziq; Cairo. — N. v. Helwan; 
Tura, recently introduced. 
Everywhere in Europe and Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
504. (12.) Striga Lour. 
Calyx tubular, 5—15- (rarely up to 17-) ribbed, 5- (rarely 4-) 
toothed or -lobed. Corolla-tube slender below, usually abruptly curved 
at or above the middle and more or less inflated from the curve 
to the apex; limb 2-lipped; upper lip inside, usually shorter than the 
lower one, entire, emarginate, or 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, included; anthers 1-celled, vertical, affixed at the back, 
connective sometimes mucronate at the apex. Style thickened or 
clavate above, stigmatose at the apex. Capsule oblong, ellipsoid or 
ovoid, loculicidal; valves coriaceous, entire. Seeds many, obovoid 
or oblong; testa reticulate. — Herbs erect and sometimes rigid, 
often parasitic and drying black, usually scabrid. Leaves opposite 
below, alternate above, often linear and entire, rarely toothed, some-- 
times all reduced to scales. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 
upper leaves or bracts, usually forming a terminal spike, sessile, 
2-bracteolate, small or rather large, often purple, red, orange-red 
or white. 
Species about 34, in the warmer parts of Africa, Asia and Australia. 
A. Calyx 5-ribbed. 
I. Corolla-tube curved about the middle .. 1. S. orobanchoides. 
II. Corolla-tube curved at the middle. . . . 2. S. hermontica. 
B. Calyx 10—17-ribbed. 
L; Calyx, LO-riDb6d 95-23 yucass ent ees 3. S. lutea. 
LL Oalyx 15b—17-ribbed <2). ise -apamenis 4. S. euphrasioides. 
1232. (1.) Striga orobanchoides Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 
Mag. I (1835), p. 361 tab. 19. — DC. Prodrom. X, p.501. — Striga 
gesnerioides Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschrift (1875), p.11 and in 
Linnaea XLIII, p. 310. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 117 
