Antirrhinum.} xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). 295 



Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 205. A. Orontium, var. abyssinicum. 

 Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 114; Engl. Hochgebirgsii. 

 Trop. Afr. 377 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 138. 



Wile Land. Nubia : coast region, Bent ! Eritrea : Mount Kube, Schioein- 

 furth 8f Riva, 1539! Mount Deban, Beccari, 266 ! and various localities, Terrac 

 eiano Sf Pappi, Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 105 ! Debra Eski, Schimper, 

 89; Bellaka, Schimper, 416. Hawasb and Maki Rivers, Wellby ! and without 

 precise locality, Schimper, 893 ! 1869 ! 



Widely spread in Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Canary Islands, Socotra, 

 Mauritius, and South Africa. 



12. HALLERIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 936. 



Calyx cup-shapecl-campanulate ; lobes 3-5, broad and short. 

 Corolla-tube curved or straight, inflated above ; limb short, spread- 

 ing, sometimes oblique, with the upper outside lip shortly 2-lobed 

 and the lower lip longer, concave and shortly 3-lobed, or the lips nearly 

 equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, scarcely declinate, afHxecl to the 

 middle of the corolla-tube, usually exserted ; filaments filiform ; anther- 

 cells diverging, at length divaricate, scarcely confluent ; rudiment of 

 the fifth stamen 0. Style filiform ; stigma minute. Ovules numerous 

 in each cell. Fruit a berry. Seeds rather large, compressed, sur- 

 rounded by a rather thick narrow wing. — Glabrous shrubs. Leaves 

 opposite, often ovate, smooth, shining, quite entire or dentate. 

 Pedicels often fascicled on a very short axillary peduncle, rarely 

 solitary, with two bracteoles below the middle. Corolla red. 



Species 5, extending to South Africa and Madagascar. 

 Leaves ovate, usually 2^-3 in. long; corolla-tube curved 1. BZ.lucida. 

 Leaves elliptic, 1-1 §- in. long ; corolla-tube straight . 2. _ff. elliptica. 



1, H. lucida, Linn. Sp. PI. 625, excl. var. /3. A shrub or some- 

 times a tree, reaching a height of 30-50 ft. Leaves 1-3|- in. long, 

 h— 2 in. broad, usually broadly ovate, coriaceous, acuminate or caudate- 

 acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, serrate-crenate or serrulate ; 

 petiole 2-1 lin. long. Flowers 2-8 or more together, rarely solitary, 

 in the axils of the leaves or sometimes on the leafless parts of the stems 

 and branches ; pedicels 5-6 lin. long. Calyx 4-5 lin. in diam., shortly 

 3-5-lobecl. Corolla 9-15 lin. long, brown-red, orange or purple ; tube 

 curved, slightly gibbous at the base in front, minutely pubescent out- 

 side ; limb unequally 4-lobed ; posticous lobe entire, emarginate or 

 bifid. Stamens and style exserted. Berry 6-8 lin. long, ellipsoid or 

 globose, dark purple. — Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 54, and in 

 DC. Proclr. x. 301 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 116 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 1744 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 401 ; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 

 207. H. abyssinica, Jaub. &, Spach, Illustr. PI. Orient, v. 65, 66, tt. 

 459, 160 ; Engl Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 377. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia : Shireh, Quartin-Dillon. Samen ; around Mount 

 Aber, Schimper, 858 ! and without precise locality, Roth, 473 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : by the River Cunene, Johnston ! 



