Anarrhinum.] xcn. scrophulariacEjE (hemsley and skan). 293 



and of others ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 289, not of Desfont. Sim- 

 buleta arabica, Forsk. ex Poir. Encycl. vii. 194. S. arabica, var. 

 abyssinica, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 9. S. orientalis, Wettst. 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 60. 



Nile Land. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 793! Keren to Massowa, Beccari • 

 Hababab Bora, 7000 ft., Hildebrandt, 657b ; Saganeiti ; northern slope below Addi. 

 Abboour, Schweinfurtli Sf Riva, 1791 1 and various localities, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 

 Abyssinia: Sliireh, Quartin- Dillon Sf Petit ! Wojerat, Quartin- Dill on Sf Petit, 

 214 ! Tigre ; Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 192 I Semayata Mountain, Schimper, 

 ■183 ! and without precise locality, ScMmper, 94 ! 



Also in Arabia, Syria, and. Mesopotamia. 



10. SCHWEINTURTHIA, A. Braun ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. ii. 933. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate, the posticous larger than the 

 others. Corolla-tube subsaccate at the base ; upper lip 2-lobed, erect, 

 at length reflexed at the margin ; lower lip 3-lobed, reflexed-spreading ; 

 palate rather prominent, closing the throat. Stamens 4, diclynamous, 

 ascending ; filaments glandular-pilose at the base ; anther-cells diverging, 

 at length divaricate, confluent at the apex ; rudiment of the fifth stamen 

 small. Style filiform ; stigma minute. Ovules numerous in each cell. 

 Capsule subglobose; pericarp fragile; anticous cell many-seeded, 

 dehiscing irregularly ; posticous cell much smaller or very small and 

 compressed, 3-4-seeded or empty, indehiscent or at length bursting 

 irregularly. Seeds obconic-truncate, with 6 longitudinal subwinged 

 ridges. — Annual or perennial diffuse glabrous and glaucous herbs. 

 Leaves usually alternate, quite entire. Flowers axillary, pedunculate, 

 small. 



Species 4, in Socotra and the Comoro Islands, Arabia, Afghanistan, and Western 

 India. 



Plant 6-9 in. high ; leaves elliptic-spathulate to linear- 

 oblong; peduncles 3-5 lin. long . . . . 1. S. pterosperma. 

 Plant up to 2 ft. high ; leaves usually narrowly linear ; 



peduncles 5-8 lin. long 2. S. aptera. 



1. S. pterosperma, Al. Braun in Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. xx. 



(1866) 24, & in Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, 872, toith plate. 

 A much-branched erect annual 6-9 in. high. Leaves up to 1 in. long 

 and 5 lin. broad, the uppermost much smaller, elliptic-spathulate to 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the base ; petiole from a few lines to 

 | in. long. Peduncles solitary, 3-5 lin. long, filiform. Calyx 1^-1^ lin. 

 long • segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. Corolla 3-4 lin. 

 long, white, rose-tinted at the throat. Capsule 3-3| lin. in diam. ; 

 posticous cell 1-3-seeded or quite empty. — Terracciano in Ann. Istit. 

 Bot. Roma, v. 103. Antirrhinum ? pterospermum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 115. 



Nile Land. Nubia-, near Pula, Schweinfurth, 173! Mount Uaratab near 

 Suakin, and at Wadi Tereb Aria, between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth. Red 

 Sea, between 11° and 12° North lat., Lord ! coast region, Bent ! Eritrea : Hamfila 



