Striga. — Enufragia. 881 
euphrasioides Vahl Symb. Bot. III, p.81. — Wight Icon. Plant. Or., 
tab. 855. — An erect annual herb, 12—38 cm high, almost glabrous 
or more or less covered with short stiff hairs, usually very scabrid; 
stem simple or freely branched; branches erect-spreading. Leaves 
mostly alternate, linear to linear-lanceolate, 1—5 cm long, 1.5. to 
5 mm broad, rather acute, entire or few-toothed. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, alternate, forming long lax terminal spikes; lower bracts 
leaf-like, the upper linear to subulate, 5—8 mm long, shortly and 
finely pubescent; bracteoles linear, 2'/,—5 mm long, otherwise as 
the bracts. Calyx tubular, 10—10'/, mm long, prominently 15-ribbed, 
5-tootbed, hispidly pubescent; teeth lanceolate, slightly unequal, 21), to 
2%/, mm long, elongating in the fruiting stage, acute. Corolla rather 
densely white-pilose on the upper part of the tube and on the outside 
of the limb; tube about 1 cm long, abruptly curved about 1,5 cm 
from the base and inflated at the curve; upper lip broadly obovate, 
emarginate or truncate, 2'/,—5 mm long, 5—5’/, mm broad; lobes 
of the lower lip narrowly obovate to obovate-oblong, 5’/,—8 mm 
long, 2'/,—2%/, mm broad, obtuse. Capsule ovoid, 5 mm long, 
2°/, mm broad, apiculate; valves recurved at the apex after dehis- 
cence. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mandara in sandy places probably recently introduced 
(Muschler). 
Also known from Tropical Africa, India, Ceylon and Java. 
505. (13.) Eufragia Griseb. 
Calyx tubular, 4-cleft. Corolla tubular, cylindrical, the upper 
lip hooded, not plaited, the palate convex, and the lower lip spreading, 
3-lobed. Stamens didynamous, the cells of the anthers mucronate. 
Capsule oblong or lanceolate, somewhat compressed. Seeds numerous, 
minute, not grooved. — Annual, viscid herbs. 
A small genus of only a few species in the Mediterranean region and 
the Orient. 
1236. Eufragia viscosa Benth. in DC. Prodrom. X (1846), 
p. 543. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.474. — Rehbch. Ic. Flor. German. 
tab. 105. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. ’Eg., p.118 no. 728. —. 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 265. — Bartsia viscosa L. Spec. 
Plant. I, p.839. — Trixago viscosa Rehbch. Flor. exe., p. 360. — 
Rhinanthus maximus Lam. Dict. VIII, p.312 not of Willd. — An 
annual plant 30—50 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more; 
Leaves 2—3 cm long, oblong, crenate-dentate. Spikes long, loose 
calyx-lobes linear, scarcely shorter than the tube; corolla 1,5 long: 
Muschler, Manual Flora of Egypt. 56 
