880 Scrophulariaceae. 
tips. Corolla rose-red or red; tube 14—25 mm long, sparingly and 
minutely pubescent, curved and inflated above the calyx; upper lip 
suborbicular, about 1 ¢m in diam., emarginate or shortly 2-lobed; 
lower lip 3-lobed; lobes oblong or oblong-obovate, 10—17 mm long, 
21/,—21/. em broad, very thin, veined. Style 5’/, mm long, per- 
sistent. Capsule ellipsoid or oblong, 5—8 mm long, 2'/,—5 mm 
broad. — Flow. March to April. 
N. v. Island of Roda; Beni Hassan; Erment; Esne; in Sugar- 
cane and Sorghum fields. 
Also known from Tropical Africa and Arabia. 
1234, (3.) Striga lutea Lour. Flor. Cochin. (1790), p. 22. — 
Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, p. 363. — Vatke in Oester. Bot. 
Zeitschrift (1875), p. 11. — Striga hirsuta Benth. in DC. Prodrom. X, 
p. 502. — Schweinf. Beitr. zur Flor. Aethiop., p. 100. — Striga pusilla 
Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodrom. X, p. 503. — Striga coccinea Benth. 
in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, p. 364 and in DC. Prodrom. X, p. 503. 
— Campuleia coccinea Hook. Exot. Flor. II tab. 203. — Campuleia 
hirsuto A. Rich. Tantam. Flor. Abyss. II, p. 132. — Buchnera asiatica 
L. Spec. Plant. I, p.680 partly. — An erect slender parasitic herb, 
often 9—20 em high (rarely under 6 or more than 22 cm), usually 
branched, scabridly hairy or sometimes villous, drying green or 
brown. Leaves alternate or opposite, narrowly linear or sometimes 
lanceolate, 5mm to 2'/, em (often about 1 em) long, 1—5 mm 
broad, acute or obtuse, entire, scabridly hairy.. Spikes terminal, 
usually 8—12 cm long, distant-flowered; bracts linear, 2'/,—8 mm 
long, obtuse or acute, scabridly hairy; bracteoles similar but shorter. 
Calyx 5'/, 8 mm (usually 6 mm) long, generally 10-ribbed, 5-too- 
thed, scarious between the ribs, scabridly hairy on the ribs and teeth; 
teeth stiff, subulate or narrowly triangular, 1—2'/, mm long, the 
uppermost usually smallest. Corolla scarlet, red, yellow or white; 
tube 8—14 mm long, very slender, glabrous or puberulous, straight 
and cylindrie to about 2mm below the apex where it is distinetly 
curved and inflated; upper lip broadly obovate or almost obreniform, 
about 2mm long and 5 mm broad; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes ob- 
ovate or cuneate-obovate, 5—51/, mm long, 2'/,—2*/, mm_ broad. 
Style 61/, mm long. Capsule oblong-ovoid or ellipsoid, 2%/,—5 mm 
long, 2—2'/, mm broad. — Flow. February to March. 
N. v. mer. South of Aswan, banks of the Nile (Muschler). 
Also known from Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands and the 
hotter parts of Asia. 
1235. (4.) Striga euphrasioides Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 
Mag. I (1835), p.364. — DC. Prodrom. X, p. 503. — Buchnera 
