292 xcn. scrophulariace.^e (hemslky and skan). [Linaria. 



Imperfectly known species. 



8. L. indecora, Franeh. Sert. Somal. 55. Dwarf, glabrous. 

 Branches slender. Leaves narrowly linear. Flowers minute, glabrous ; 

 peduncles filiform, rather elongated. Corolla (including the spur) 

 scarcely 2 lin. long ; spur rather thick, straight, acute. 



Nile land. Soinaliland : without precise locality, S'evoil. 

 This is probably L. hastata, R. Br. 



9. Li. stenantha, Franeh. Sert. Somal. 55. A low very much- 

 branched glabrous undershrub ; branches slender, densely leafy. 

 Leaves oblong, obtuse, attenuated at the base, quite entire, petiolate. 

 Peduncles filiform, long. Corolla (including the spur) 5 lin. long, 

 narrow, pubescent ; spur elongated, straight, subulate. 



Wile Land. Somaliland : without precise locality, Revoil. 



9. ANAERHINUM, Desf. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 933. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube with or without 

 a short spur at the base (spurless in the Tropical African species) ; 

 throat equal, open ; upper lip 2-lobed ; lobes at first erect, then re- 

 flexed ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascend- 

 ing, included ; filaments filiform ; anthers reniform, with confluent cells. 

 Style filiform ; stigma small. Ovules numerous. Capsule small, ovoid 

 or globose, often retuse, hard, dehiscing by 2 irregular apical sometimes 

 confluent pores. Seeds ovoid, wingless, tuberculate or somewhat muri- 

 cate. — Biennial or perennial usually erect herbs. Leaves often in a 

 rosette at the base, and alternate, narrow, dissected or entire on the 

 stem. Flowers small in spike-like often long virgate interrupted 

 racemes. — Simbuleta, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. 115. 



Species 12, natives of the Mediterranean region and the Orient, one extending 

 into Tropical Africa. 



1. A. orientale, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 289. A glabrous or 

 puberulous branched erect undershrub l-|-3 ft. high. Leaves i-l|in. 

 long ; radical leaves cuneate-oblong, incised-clentate, on long petioles ; 

 cauline leaves cuneate and incised-clentate, or divided nearly to the base 

 into 3 linear or linear-lanceolate segments, or linear and entire, acute, 

 attenuated at the base into a short petiole. Flowers in a branched 

 rather dense spike-like raceme 6-12 in. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 usually longer than the calyx; pedicels |— 1^ lin. long. Calyx about 

 1 lin. long ; segments 5 or 6, broad at the base, subulate above, hyaline 

 at the margins and tips. Corolla 2-| lin. long, not spurred. Capsule 

 1+ lin. long, ovoid, glabrous. Seeds tuberculate. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 115; Jaub. & Spach, Illust. PI. Orient, v. 50, 54, t. 450; 

 Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 63. A . abyssinicum, Jaub. & Spach, I.e. v. 50, 52, 

 tt. 447-449. A. arahicum, Jaub. &, Spach, I.e. v. 50, 51, t. 446. A. 

 arabicum, var. abyssinicum, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Air. 377 ; 

 Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 138. A. fruticosum, Schimp. 



