Linaria.] xcn. scrophulariaceve (hemsley and skan). 291 



furth Sf Rioa, 551 ! ami various localities, Terracciano <Sf Pappi. Abyssinia : with- 

 out precise locality, Salt ! Somaliland : W;igga Mountain, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 

 Also in Socotra. 



6. Ii. asparagoides, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl.Aethiop. 99 and 241. A 

 glabrous undershrub. Stem erect, very much branched from the base ; 

 branches very long and slender. Leaves 1^-2 in. long, ^-1 lin. broad, 

 narrowly linear, flaccid, sessile, gradually attenuated towards the base. 

 Peduncles up to h in. long, capillary. Calyx 1 lin. long ; segments 

 lanceolate-subulate, very acute. Corolla including spur about -J in. 

 long ; lower lip twice as long as the upper ; spar 1|- lin. long. Seeds 

 tuberculate. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Grageros, 4000 ft., Schimper ; and without precise 

 locality, Schimper, 442 ! 



7. L. sagittata, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6060. A slender diffusely 

 branched subscandent perennial, glabrous on the branches, leaves and 

 peduncles ; stem short, thick ; branches terete, woody at the base, 

 sometimes almost leafless. Leaves from a few lines to 2 in. long by 

 §— 3£ lin. broad, narrowly linear to linear-oblong or lanceolate, sagittate 

 or hastate or sometimes cuneate or rounded at the base, entire, acute, 

 rarely obtuse ; petiole 1-6 lin. long, sometimes tendril-like. Flowers 

 distant, axillary ; peduncles 5-8 lin. long. Calyx 2 lin. long, glabrous 

 or glandular-pubescent ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, more or less 

 scarious on the margins. Corolla (including thespur)9-10 lin. long, yellow, 

 pilose outside ; palate clothed with long citron-yellow hairs ; spur about 

 h in. long. Filaments densely pilose. Capsule shorter than the calyx, 

 globose, glabrous. Seeds tuberculate. — L. heterophylla, Steucl. Nom. 

 ed. i. 482 ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 790 ; Benth. in DC. Proclr. x. 270, not of 

 Desfont. L. patida, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 222. Antirrhinum 

 heterophyllum, Schousboe, Beobacht. Gewachsr. Marokko, 181, t. 3. A. 

 sagittatum, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 19. L. gracilis, R. Br. in Salt, 

 Abyss. Append. 64, and ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 269 ; Almagia in 

 Ann. Istit. Bot. Boma, viii. 137. L. gracilis, var. propinqua, Benth. I.e. 

 v. 270. L. propinqua, B. Br. I.e. 64. 



Wile Land. Nubia : coast region, Bent ! Otao, Johnston, 10 ! Mount 

 Uaratab, Schiveinfurth, 235 ! Wadi O-Mareg, Schiveinfurth, 438 ! Eritrea : Habab, 

 Hildeorandt, 447 ! Addi Conzi and Haichello Rokob, near Acrur, Schiveinfurth Sr 

 Siva, 1169 ! 1106 ! Mount A lam Kale, Schiveinfurth Sr Riva, 1655 ! various 

 localities, Terracciano Sr Pappi. Abyssinia : without precise locality, Salt ! 

 Somaliland : near Wadaba, Miss Edith Cole ; Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 



Also in North Africa, Arabia, and the Canary Islands. 



Many of the specimens cited above have been named L. macilenta, Decne., a 

 species apparently confined to the Sinai Peninsula. This has a different habit, 

 much shorter peduncles, minut.? flowers, and much sm dler capsules. L. sagittata is 

 very polymorphic in habit, shape and size of the leaves, and in the length of the 

 peduncles. 



