Anticharis.] xcn. scrophulauiace^; (hemsley and skan). 279 



8. A. longifolia, Marl. & Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 252. An 

 erect branched herb about 1^ ft. high, everywhere covered with short 

 glandular hairs ; branches 12-16 in. long, ascending. Leaves lf-2 in. 

 long, -|— f lin. broad, narrowly linear, somewhat acute, rather distant. 

 Peduncles about 5 lin. long, slender ; bracts small, linear. Calyx-tube 

 very short ; segments 2 lin. long, ^lin. broad, lanceolate, acute. Corolla 

 i in. long, blue with a dark-violet throat ; tube campanulate, oblique 

 in the upper part ; lobes short, suborbicular. Stamens slightly shorter 

 than the corolla-tube ; anthers curved, coherent, and ciliate at the 

 apex. Style longer than the stamens. Capsule ^ in. long, oblong, 

 conically attenuated. Seeds ovoid, obtuse at both ends, with many 

 longitudinal ridges. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Usakos, 2950 ft., 

 Marloth, 1422. 



4. VERBASCITM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 928. 



Calyx deeply 5-lobed or -partite, rarely 5-toothed ; lobes imbricate. 

 Corolla rotate, rarely concave, with scarcely any tube ; lobes 5, broad, 

 slightly unequal, the posticous outside. Stamens 5, affixed to the base 

 of the corolla ; filaments of the 3 posticous stamens or of all bearded ; 

 anthers transverse or oblique, 1 -celled by confluence. Style entire, 

 compressed, dilated at the apex. Capsule globose, oblong or ovoicl, 

 septicidally 2-valved ; valves usually 2-lobed, with inflexed margins 

 exposing the placeutiferous column. Seeds many, ovoid or oblong, 

 rugose, Avingless ; embryo straight. — More or less tomentose biennial 

 or perennial herbs, or sometimes undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 usually soft, entire, crenulate, sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid. Flowers 

 in simple or branched terminal spikes or racemes ; pedicels usually very 

 short, ebracteolate, solitary or fascicled. Corolla yellow, fuscous, purple 

 or red, more rarely white. 



Species about 1G0, chiefly in Europe, North Africa, West and Central Asia. The 

 following belong to the section Lychnitis. 



Plant densely covered with a woolly tomentum . .1. V. Ternacha. 



Plant nearly glabrous . . . . . . . 2. V. Schimperi. 



1. V. Ternacha, Iiochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 108. A 

 biennial 2-3 ft. high or more, densely clothed with pale yellow or 

 whitish woolly tomentum ; stem usually simple, erect, thick. Radical 

 and lower cauline leaves up to 9 in. long, petiolate, oval or oblong, 

 subacute or obtuse, crenate or serrate, narrowed at the base ; petiole 

 1-2 in. long, stout ; upper leaves much smaller, usually subamplexicaul, 

 acute or acuminate, more or less crenate or serrate. Panicle 18 in. long 

 or more, branched in the lower part ; branches 6-12 in. long, spreading ; 

 bracts \— \ in. long, ovate, acuminate. Flowers usually in small rather 

 distant groups ; pedicels about 2 lin. long. Calyx 2|— 3 lin. long, deeply 

 cleft ; segments lanceolate or narrow-ovate, acute or acuminate. 

 Corolla | in. in diam., yellow, tomentose outside. Filaments all bearded ; 

 anthers reniform. Capsule 3i lin. long, ovoid, tomentose or here and 



