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xcn. scrophulariace^: (hemsley and skan). \Halleria. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 6560 ft. 

 Volkens, 1281 ! Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains, 8500 ft., Goetze, 946. British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Zomba Plateau, 5000 ft., Whyte ! 

 Also in South Africa. 



2. H. elliptica, Thurib. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 39. An erect 

 shrub 4-6 ft. high ; branches subquadrangular. Leaves 1-lf in. long, 

 -|— 1 in. broad, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, acute, minutely and 

 remotely denticulate or sometimes distinctly serrate ; petiole 1-2 lin. 

 long. Flowers solitary or 2-8 together; pedicels 5 lin. long. Calyx 

 3 lin. in diam., 2 lin. long ; lobes subequal, broadly rounded, minutely 

 mucronate. Corolla ■§-! in. long ; tube straight, slightly and equally 

 dilated at the base, much dilated above, minutely glandular-pubescent, 

 very shortly 4-lobed ; lobes subequal. Stamens and style included or at 

 length exsertecl. Berry 4-5 lin. long, dark purple, ellipsoid or globose. 

 — Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 54, and in DC. Prodr. x. 302 ; 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356 ; Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 209. H. 

 lucida, var. /3, Linn. Sp. PL 625. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Makua Country; Namuli Hills, 

 Last! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Mlanji, Whyte! Fuchila 

 Plateau, 6000 ft., Furves, 79 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



13. SCROPHULARIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 937. 



Calyx deeply 5-fid or 5-partite ; segments usually obtuse, sometimes 

 orbicular and scarious on the margins, rarely rather acute. Corolla- 

 tube ventricose, globose or oblong ; lobes 5, short, flat, 4 (including the 

 2 posticous, which are usually larger) erect ; anticous lobe spreading. 

 Perfect stamens 4, didynamous, affixed to the corolla-tube, decimate, 

 included or exsertecl , filaments filiform or rather thick ; staminode 

 posticous, scale-like, affixed to the apex of the corolla-tube, or wanting ; 

 anther-cells confluent, transverse. Style filiform ; stigma minute or 

 more rarely capitate. Ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule ovoid or 

 subglobose, usually acute, septiciclal ; valves entire or bifid. Seeds ovoid, 

 rugose, not winged. — Glabrous or hirsute, often fcetid herbs or under- 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, entire, incised or dis- 

 sected, often with pellucid dots. Inflorescence a terminal simple or 

 branched thyrsus of lax cymes. Flowers rather small, greenish-purple, 

 purple or yellow. 



Species about 120, in the extratropical regions of the northern hemisphere. 



1. S. arguta, Soland. in Ait. Hort. Keiv. ed. 1, ii. 342. An erect 

 more or less glandular-pubescent annual, 6 in. to 2 ft. high ; stem 

 simple or with a few straight ascending branches. Leaves up to 2| in. 

 long and 2 in. broad, broadly ovate, acute, subcordate, truncate or 

 cuneate at the base, irregularly dentate or bidentate ; petiole h-1 in . 



