tScrophularia.] xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). 297 



long. Cymes 2-5-flowered or sometimes reduced to one flower, shortly 

 pedunculate, forming a rigid leafy or sometimes almost leafless thyrsus ; 

 pedicels 1— Si- lin. long ; bracteoles setaceous, very small. Calyx 1^ lin. 

 long ; segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. Corolla 

 urceolate, rather longer than the calyx. Stamens included ; staminode 

 orbicular-obcordate. Capsule 2^-3^- lin. long, ovoid, beaked, glabrous. 

 — Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 305 ; Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 306 ; Almagia 

 in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 139 ; Webb & Berth. lies Canaries, 

 Phyt. iii. iii., 131, t. 177. S. rostrata, Hochst. ex Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 

 395. 



Nile Land. Nubia : Hor Tamanib, Lord ! Coast region, Bent ! Eritrea : 

 various localities, Terracciano Sf Pappi. Abyssinia : Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 

 1428 ! Somaliland : Serrut Mountains, 4900ft., near Maid, Sildebrandt, 141)7 ! 

 and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



Also in Europe, North Africa, Canary Islands, Arabia, and Socotra. 



14. POLYCAREJsTA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 944. 



Calyx membranous, 2-lipped, bipartite in the fruiting stage. 

 Corolla persistent ; tube slender, longer or shorter than the calyx, 

 dilated at the throat ; lobes 5, spreading, entire, subequal, the two 

 posticous outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, affixed to the corolla-tube, 

 shortly exserted ; anthers 1-celled by confluence. Style filiform, 

 clavate at the apex ; stigma obtuse. Ovules numerous in each cell. 

 Capsule membranous, septicidal; valves bifid. Seeds numerous; 

 testa loose. — Dwarf viscous usually much-branched annual herbs. 

 Leaves opposite below, alternate above, entire or dentate. Flowers 

 small, in terminal racemes or spikes, which are at first capitate, at length 

 elongated ; bracts leaf-like, solitary, adnate to the pedicel and calyx. 



Species 21, all except the following endemic in South Africa. 



1. P. discolor, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 191. 

 A slender erect or suberect sparingly branched glandular-pubescent 

 annual, lf-5 in. high. Leaves sessile, 2-6 lin. long, ^-f lin. broad, 

 linear or narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, usually entire, sometimes remotely 

 denticulate. Inflorescence 3-4 lin. long and broad, elongating in the 

 fruiting stage; bracts lanceolate or narrowly oblong, l|-2 lin. long; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx 1J lin. long; segments unequal, f-1 lin. 

 long, linear, obtuse, concave inside. Corolla 2f lin. long, glabrous; 

 tube l\-lh lin. long; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip shorter than the lower, 

 whitish with 2 deep-orange-yellow blotches ; lower lip at first blue, 

 afterwards rose-coloured. Stamens and style exserted. Capsule 1^ 

 lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous. — Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 

 327. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Uridum, on the west border of 

 the Kalahari, Schinz, 32 ! and without precise locality, Chapman Sf Baines ! 



Also in Bechuaualand. 



