288 XCII. SCROPHULABJACE.E (HEMSLEY AND SKAn). [Diclis. 



globose, emarginate. — Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 252 ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Bot. 1900, 467 ; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 201. D. viridis, Marloth 

 ex Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 253 in note. Anarrhinum PecJmelii, 0. Kuntze 

 in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 269. Linaria Pechuelii, O. Kuntze, I.e. 

 Simbuleta Pechuelii, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 465. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Okahandya, 

 3900 ft., Marloth, 1344, and without precise locality, Pechuel-Loesche. Upingtonia, 

 Schinz, 41 ! Dammaraland ; bed of the Otyizeva River, Schinz; 41 ! and without 

 precise locality, Chapman Sf Barnes ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: B-uluwayo, Band, 372 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



4. D. sessilifolia, Diets in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 473. An erect 

 branched sparingly glandular-pubescent or subglabrous herb, 2|-6 in. 

 high; stem and branches quadrangular. Leaves 2^-6 lin. long, 1-3 

 lin. broad, subsessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, cuneate 

 at the base, remotely denticulate. Peduncles 8-14 lin. long, filiform. 

 Calyx-segments |— 1 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla 

 including spur 4h lin. long, yellow with purple streaks at the base and 

 on the spur ; spur 2| lin. long ; upper lip rather deeply bifid ; lobes 

 acute ; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes rounded. Capsule globose, 1-1| lin. in 

 diam., slightly emarginate. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 756. 



lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; Humpata, Welwitsch, 5771! Johnston! 

 by the River Cunene, Johnston ! 



8. LINARIA, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 932. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube spurred at the 

 base in front; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, 

 produced at the base into a palate, closing the throat of the corolla, or 

 more rarely depressed, leaving the throat open. Stamens 4, clidvna- 

 mous, ascending, included ; filaments filiform ; anther-cells distinct,, 

 oblong, parallel. Style filiform ; stigma small, usually emarginate. 

 Ovules many in each cell. Capsule ovoicl or globose, dehiscing by a 

 3-valved pore at the apex of each cell, or by 4-10 valve-like teeth, or 

 by circumscissile or valve-like opercula. Seeds ovoid, wingless, angular 

 or rugose, or discoid and surrounded by a membranous wing. — Herbs, 

 more'rarely undershrubs. Lower leaves usually opposite, the upper 

 nearly always alternate, quite entire, dentate or lobecl. Plowers axillary 

 or in terminal racemes or spikes ; pedicels ebracteolate. Corolla 

 yellow, white, violet to blue, or variously coloured. 



Species about 150, nearly all in the northern extra tropical regions of the old 

 world. 



All the Tropical African species belong to the section Matinoides defined as 

 follows : Leaves pinnately nerved, hastate, dentate or quite entire. Mowers axillary, 

 distant. Corolla with a prominent palate. Capsule dehiscing by circumscissile or 

 valve-like opercula. Seeds ovate-truncate or round, wingless; testa foveolate or 

 granulose-tuberculate. Plant commonly procumbent, annual or subsl.rubby. 



