276 xcn. scrophulabiace.'E (hemsley and skan). [Anticharis. 



Leaves often broad, rather obtuse ; capsule li times 



as long as the calyx . . . . . 3. A. glanchilosa. 



Anthers coherent towards the apex. 



Peduncles without bracts . . . . .4.-4. ebracteat'ti. 



Peduncles with bracts. 



Leaves crowded and imbricate . . . . 5. A. imlricata. 



Leaves more or less distant. 



Peduncles much longer than the flowers . . 6, A. aseliersoniana. 

 Peduncles as long as or shorter than the flowers. 

 Leaves oblong, f-1 in. long, about 5 lin. 



broad ; peduncles about 2i lin. long . 7. A. inflafa. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, li-2 in. long, J— | lin. 



broad j peduncles about 5 lin. long. . S. A. longifolia. 



1. A. linearis, Hochst. ex Aschers. in Monatsber. Alcad. Wiss. Berl. 

 1866, 882. An erect much-branched glandular-pubescent annual,, a few 

 inches to more than a foot high, usually becoming blue-black in drying. 

 Leaves up to 2 in. long, 1-lf lin- broad, sessile, linear to narrow, 

 lanceolate, acute, attenuated at the base, sometimes glabrescent. 

 Peduncles 8-7 (usually 6) lin. long ; bracts 1-1| lin. long, opposite or 

 subopposite, subulate, usually inserted above the middle of the peduncle. 

 Calyx about 3 lin. long, deeply cleft ; segments ^ lin. broad, linear, 

 shortly acuminate. Corolla about 5 lin. long ; lobes subequal. 

 Anthers free, ciliate ; basal lobes acuminate. Style shorter than the 

 corolla-tube ; stigma bifid. Capsule S^-4^ lin. long, nearly twice as 

 long as the calyx, ovoid, acuminate or beaked. — Yatke in Oest. Bot„ 

 Zeitschr. 1875, 9; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 756; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 250 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 423 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. 

 Bot. Roma, viii. 136. A. arabica, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 347 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 119; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 

 98, not of Endl. Doratanthera linearis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 347 ; 

 Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 120 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 

 241. Distemon angustifolius, Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex Aschers. I.e. 883. 

 Gerardiopsis Fischeri, Engl. Pfl. Obt-Afr. C. 359, and in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxiii. 507. 



Upper Guinea. Bornu : Kuka, Vogel, 11! Senegambia, Leprieur t 

 Senegal, Perrottet ! 



Nile Xiand. Nubia: coast region, Bent! bunk of the Nile north of 

 Khartoum, Speke 8f Grant ! between Suakin and Berber, Schiveinfurth, 445 ! 460 ! 

 Kordofan ; near Obeid, ClenJcowsJcy, Mount Arashkol, Kotschy, 59 ! 90 ! Bara, 

 Pfund, 687 ! Darfur, Purdy, 16 ! Eritrea : near Saati, Schweinf urth fy Piva, 

 370 ! Samhar, near Massowa, Hildehrandt, 726 ! Habab, Rildebrandt, 673, 

 Abyssinia: Modat, near Ailet, Schimper, 1050! mountains near Gageros, 4000 ft., 

 ScJrimper, 2264 ! 



IVXozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Lake Chala, 3300 ft., 

 Volkens, 333 ; and without precise locality, Fischer, 119. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; Praia da Amelia and about Santo 

 Antonio, Welwitsch, 5810! 



Also in the Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, and through Arabia to Western India. 



2. A. arabica, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 23. A slender erect branched 

 shortly glandular-pubescent annual about 1 ft. high. Leaves up to 

 14 lin. long, 11-24 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, 



