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xcn. scROPHULARiACEiE (hemsley and skan). [Stemodia. 



1. S. serrata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 381. An erect much 

 branched viscid glandular-pubescent herb, 6 in. to 1 ft. high. Leaves 

 rather crowded, up to 2 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate, 

 acute, narrowed at the base or sometimes dilated and semi-amplexicaul, 

 serrate from the middle to the apex. Flowers crowded, forming leafy 

 spike-like racemes; peduncles |-lf lin. long; bracts 2, 1^-1^ lin- long, 

 narrow-linear, inserted near the calyx. Calyx 2| lin. long ; segments 

 subulate-linear, acuminate. Corolla about 3 lin. long; upper lip emar- 

 ginate ; lower lip broadly and very shortly 3-lobed. Capsule as long as 

 the calyx, narrow-oblong, acuminate, glabrous, 4-furrowed. — Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 265. Sutera serrata, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 

 43, name only. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lepriew ! Senegal, 'Roger ! 



Wile Laud, Kordofan : Mount Kohn, Kotschy, 226 ! Mount Arashkol, 

 Kotschy, 199 ! Upper Sennar : Fazokel, Kotschy, 521 ! White Nile, at Els-Ehs, 

 Schiveinfurth, 979 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Meny- 

 harth, 1070 ! 



Also in India. 



Imperfectly Icnoion species. 



2. S. senegalensis, Besf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. iii. 107, without 

 description. 



21. STEMODIOPSIS, Engl, in Ann. Istit. Bot. Eoma, vii. 25. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments linear-lanceolate, very acute. Corolla-tube 

 subcampanulate, not spurred nor saccate at the base; limb 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip outside, concave, semiorbicular or broadly ovate, very shortly 

 2-lobed ; lower lip rather larger than the upper, shortly 3-lobed, having 

 (at least in S. Buchanani) a prominent palate. Perfect stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included and covered by the upper lip of the corolla ; 

 filaments of the longer stamens twisted in the middle or merely curved ; 

 anthers 2-celled; cells ovoid, equal, confluent at the apex, diverging at 

 a right angle or almost divaricate, dehiscing longitudinally ; staminode 

 filiform, sometimes minute or quite wanting. Ovary elongate conical, 

 2-celled, as long as or nearly as long as the calyx, attenuated into a 

 slender style ; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule septicidal, 

 ellipsoid -conical, sharply beaked, turned downwards; valves 2, coherent 

 or connivent at the apex after dehiscence. — Herbs, sometimes almost 

 subshrubby, with many rather densely leafy branches. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, spathulate or ovate, dentate. Flowers very small, axillary, 

 solitary or sometimes in 3-flowered cymes ; pedicels minutely 

 bibracteolate. 



Species 3, endemic. 

 Leaves spathulate ; petiole 1-1 A lin. lonj. 

 nearly as long as the leaves . 



pedicels 



1. S. Riven. 



