294 xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). [Schweinfurihia. 



Bay, Midir Island, Terraceiano, 220. Massowa to Ras Gerar, Beccari ! Abyssinia : 

 Slioho, Quartin- Dillon 8f Petit. Somaliland : without precise locality, Miss Edith 

 Cole ! 



Also in Arabia. 



2. S. aptera, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 96, under Antir- 

 rhinum apterum, Vatke. A diffusely branched glabrous subshrubby 

 annual |— 2 ft. high. Leaves narrowly linear or the lower sometimes 

 spathulate linear, -J—2 in. long, obtuse or acute, narrowed at the base, 

 quite entire or very rarely the lower bidentate. Flowers solitary in 

 the axils of the upper leaves ; peduncles 5-8 lin. long, filiform, spread- 

 ing. Calyx 1^-1 1 lin. long ; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 

 about 3^ lin. long, white tinted with rose. Capsule as in S.pterosperma. 

 — Antirrhinum pedicellatum, T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v., Suppl. 26. 



Nile Z>and. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains near Lasgori, 4900 ft., Hildehrandt, 

 861! 



Also in South Arabia, Socotra, the Comoro Islands, and Bombay. 



11. ANTIRRHINUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 934. 



Calyx 5-partite; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube saccate or 

 gibbous at the base, not spurred ; upper lip erect, shortly 2-lobed ; 

 lower lip spreading, 3-lobecl, produced at the base into a prominent 

 palate which often closes the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous. ascend- 

 ing, included ; filaments filiform or dilated at the apex ; anther-cells 

 distinct, oblong, parallel. Style filiform ; stigma small. Ovules numerous 

 in each cell. Capsule ovoid or globose, sometimes oblique, with the 

 posticous cell dehiscing by one pore and the anticous cell by two many- 

 toothed pores, sometimes equal with one pore to each cell. Seeds oblong, 

 truncate, rugose or rather smooth. — Annual or perennial herbs, more 

 rarely undershrubs, sometimes climbing. Lower leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite, the upper alternate, all quite entire or rarely lobed. 

 Flowers solitary, axillary or in terminal racemes ; pedicels ebraeteate. 

 Corolla usually showy, rose-coloured, purple, pale-yellow or white. 



Species about 35, chiefly in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, 

 especially in North America. 



1. A. Orontium, Linn. Sp. PL 617. An erect branched biennial, 

 a few inches to 2 ft. high ; stem and branches more or less glandular- 

 hairy, especially in the upper parts, or glabrescent. Leaves 1-2 in. 

 long, 1-4 lin. (usually about 2 lin.) broad, lanceolate to linear, acute, 

 subacute or obtuse, glabrous or sometimes remotely ciliate, entire. 

 Inflorescence a rigid distant-flowered raceme ; bracts similar to the 

 upper leaves but smaller ; pedicels very short, usually hispidly glan- 

 dular-hairy. Calyx sparingly hispidly hairy ; segments 4|-7 lin. long 

 or sometimes longer, linear, unequal, acute. Corolla 4-9 lin. long, rose- 

 coloured with purple veins. Capsule 4-6 lin. long, obliquely ovoid, 

 hispidly hairy.— Benth. in DC. Prodr, x. 290; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 iv. 253; Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 63; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, vi. 131, t. 954; 



