JfimidllS.] XCII. SCROPHULABIACE.E (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). oil 



acuminate, usually arnplexicaul, entire and slightly repancl or remotely 

 denticulate. Flowers solitary, axillary, forming rather leafy loose 

 racemes; pedicels f— 1 in. long, up to If in. long in the fruiting stage, 

 suberect. Calyx 3|-4 lin. long, 5-angled ; teeth broad at the base, 

 1— 1-J lin. long, unequal, subacuminate, keeled. Corolla about 7 lin. 

 long, whitish, whitish-violet or white-rosy (Welwitsch), tubular, very 

 unequally bilabiate ; upper lip short, emarginate ; lower lip broadly 

 3-lobed. Capsule very slightly shorter than the calyx, obovoid. — 

 Benth. in DC. Proclr. x. 3G9 and 594; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Inch iv. 259; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 758, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 354; 

 S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 467. M. angustifolhcs, Hochst. ex A. 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 119. M. strictits, Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 

 3918, and Scroph. Ind. 28. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia: Sana; Bahara District, Schimper, 1629 ! Begemeder, 

 Schimper, 1135 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; banks of the Elver Luxillo, 

 Welwitsch, 5874 ! West Luxillo River, Welwitsch, 5855 ! Mossamedes; near the 

 River Hero, Welwitsch, 5807, 5808. Huilla; by the Lopollo stream, Welwitsch, 

 5796! Malange, Gosstoeiler, 10S7 ! 



IVXozamb. Bist, Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; near Expedition 

 Island, Kirk ! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 

 1-43 ! Zomba and east end of Lake Shirwa, Heller ! Matabeleland ; Buluwayo, 

 Band, 156, 368, 506, Gardner, 70 ! 



Also in South Africa, China, Tndia and Australia. 



19. LINDENBERGIA, Lehm. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 948. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-fkl. Corolla bilabiate'; tube cylindric; posti- 

 cous lip inside, short, broad, emarginate or 2-lobed, erect-spreading ; 

 anticous lip larger, 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 

 cluded ; filaments filiform ; anther-cells distinct, separated, stipitate, all 

 bearing pollen. Style filiform, subclavate at the apex. Capsule oblong 

 or ovoid, bisulcate, dehiscence loculicidal ; valves entire Seeds many, 

 minute, semi-immersed in the fleshy placentas. — Annual or perennial 

 herbs, hard at the base, rarely undershrubs, decumbent or ascending, 

 villous or more rarely glabrescent. Leaves opposite or the upper 

 alternate, dentate. Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves or in terminal spikes or racemes; bracts foliaceous ; bracteoles 0. 



Species 14, in North-east Africa, Arabia, India, Malaya and China. 

 Annual ; corolla glabrous . . . . . 1. L. nigrescens. 



Perennial ; corolla pubescent. 



Leaves 2i-4 lin. long, denticulate, the lower scarcely 



larger than the upper ; corolla 4|-5 h lin. long 2. L. sciitellarioides. 

 Leaves up to 2 J in. long, coarsely toothed, the lower 

 larger than the upper ; corolla 7-8 lin. long. 

 Lower leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular-ovate. 

 Leaves up to about 7 lin. long, the uppermost 



shorter than the calyx ; calyx 1^-2 lin. long 3. L. sinaica. 



